Digital Angel Corporation, an advanced technology company in the field of rapid and accurate identification, location tracking, and condition monitoring of high-value assets today announced that it will present at the Thomas Weisel Partners GPS and RFID Conference on Wednesday, May 24th at 9:30 am PDT. The conference will take place at the Thomas Weisel Headquarters in San Francisco.
Kevin McGrath, President and CEO of Digital Angel, will present the company’s latest RFID implementations for pets, fish, poultry, livestock, and humans. He will also discuss the firm’s GPS capabilities in the transport and military aviation markets.
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LoJack Corporation today announced that a Corvette installed with a LoJack Stolen Vehicle Recovery System was the key that helped crack an extensive, highly organized network of car thieves in Western Illinois and the Greater Chicago area. This ultimately led to the recovery of assets worth approximately one million dollars.
The investigation stemming from the LoJack recovery involved multiple law enforcement agencies. Together the agencies tracked down criminals who specialized in stealing high performance, “muscle cars” from auto dealerships and selling parts to buyers involved in the national auto racing industry and on the Internet. This million dollar bust included the recovery of 22 stolen vehicles, $30,000 in chop shop tools purchased with drug money and the discovery of illegal substances and guns. Eight arrests were made and two chop shops were dismantled.
“We’re proud to have been an integral first step in helping law enforcement in Illinois crack this extensive network of professional car thieves,” said Richard T. Riley, LoJack’s President and COO. “We commend the Illinois law enforcement agencies on their ability to unite and form a powerful task force capable of tracking down these thieves and putting a stop to their many illegal activities.”
How the Million Dollar Recovery Unfolded:
On March 21, while on an unrelated mission, an air unit from the Illinois State Police began receiving a silent LoJack signal on its LoJack Police Tracking Computer and tracked the vehicle to a residence in Grand Detour. At the scene, the Northern Illinois Auto Theft Task Force, Ogle County Sheriff’s Office and Illinois State Police discovered the stolen Corvette, a second stolen Corvette, a Honda Shadow motorcycle, as well as other stolen vehicle parts. A suspect was then arrested and an investigation followed revealing that these three vehicle thefts were a small part of a large, professional auto theft group specializing in stealing muscle cars such as Ford Cobras, Dodge Vipers, Chevy Corvette Z06s and Ford F-250s with diesel engines. The group operated in Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and Kane counties in Illinois and took stolen vehicles to Chicago area chop shops.
Recognizing this theft network was extensive and widespread, the agencies quickly put together a joint multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force involving Kane-Cook Auto Theft Task Force (KCAT), DuPage County Auto Theft Task Force (BATTLE) and Northeast Metro Auto Theft Task Force (NEMAT), Westmont Police, Naperville Police, Highland Park Police, East Dundee Police and St. Charles Police. This new, united task force then targeted 10 highly organized professional auto thieves.
The task force searched a second property that was believed to be used by the theft ring. Inside the home, investigators located 23 pounds of marijuana, 20 guns, cash, a stolen Ford Mustang Cobra and more than $30,000 in chop shop tools that had been purchased with drug money. Police then learned that the Mustang was one of three Mustang Cobras stolen from the same dealership in one night.
Armed with information from the Mustang theft, the task force took a suspect into custody. The suspect has pled guilty to the theft of 20 vehicles, three arsons and more than 12 burglaries. The suspect also provided additional details on the theft ring, resulting in two additional searches. One search led to the recovery of a computer used to program Ford transponder keys that had been stolen from a dealership. The second search led police to a suspect who was driving a stolen Ford Cobra and had been previously arrested for possession of multiple stolen vehicles. Through these arrests, police were given permission to search other areas in which they located stolen trailers and vehicle parts.
The investigation is ongoing with additional arrests pending.
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DataLogic International, Inc., a provider of GPS-based mobile resource management, secured mobile communications and network security, today announced StoneCrafters of Arizona has chosen its mobile asset management system, BounceGPS, to help improve the efficiency of their fleet of vehicles.
“After a careful evaluation we believe BounceGPS provides the best function and value to help StoneCrafters improve efficiency and lower operating cost. We wanted a GPS fleet management system that could help us more easily locate and dispatch our stone masons as well as identify areas to improve customer response,” Tony Lewis, President, StoneCrafters of Arizona, said.
BounceGPS is real-time mobile resource management system that is discreetly installed in cars, trucks, construction equipment and other mobile assets. Its affordability and effectiveness enables fleet managers to improve the efficiency and return on assets of their fleet.
Key BounceGPS capabilities include:
– Real-time vehicle location and monitoring
– Identification of unauthorized vehicle use
– Nearest vehicle to job feature to help reduce drive time and fuel cost
– Historical reporting
“Customers like StoneCrafters continue to validate the value and performance of BounceGPS,” Keith Moore, Chairman, DataLogic International, said. “We are proud to contribute to the success of StoneCrafters’ business.”
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Trafficmaster and Norwich Union sign black box deal
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Trafficmaster has signed a contract with Norwich Union for the provision of a further 35,000 telematics black boxes. (5/4/2006)
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This extends the contract that Norwich Union signed last year with Trafficmaster to provide additional boxes for its Telematics Program. The boxes, at the heart of Norwich Union’s Pay As You Drive™ insurance program, record the time, distance and location of a vehicle’s journeys.
Norwich Union is conducting a pilot to investigate motorists’ preference for a usage-based motor insurance product. The ongoing Pay As You Drive and Fleet Telematics pilots launched in 2004 and 2005 have enabled Norwich Union to better understand vehicle usage and driving behaviour – providing an accurate risk assessment tool.
As a result of the pilot, Norwich Union has gathered a total of around 42 million miles of data from its 5,000 pilot customers, which averages out to 8,500 miles per customer per year – well below the national average of 11,000 miles per year. This could indicate that many motorists might benefit from a usage-based insurance product.
Simon Machell, chief executive, Norwich Union Insurance, said that increasing the number of boxes in the pilot will give the company access to additional data. “Our learnings from our pilot are ongoing and substantial, and will shape any future Pay As You Drive insurance products by putting road safety and value at their heart.”
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BounceGPS locates vehicles for repossession
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Pheonix, Arizona-based BHFC is using BounceGPS to successfully locate vehicles with delinquent loans. (5/8/2006)
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BounceGPS for Collateral Protection units are installed in vehicles with high-risk loans. When a repossession is required, BHFC contacts the BounceGPS operations centre, provides the VIN of the vehicle and the BounceGPS team does the rest.
The location of the vehicle is determined and a repossession company is notified, resulting in an efficient, cost-effective recovery. Unique to BounceGPS is the Predictive Positioning™ feature which assists repossession agencies by identifying the time and place for a repossession.
BHFC owner Tom Medaglia commented: “Since using BounceGPS we’ve had to repossess at least a dozen vehicles. In some cases those cars were recovered in less than thirty minutes from contact to recovery. To say we’re getting value for our investment is an understatement. And we’re seeing a significant reduction in delinquency on BounceGPS equipped vehicles.”
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