NovaTracker
GPS Finds ATV; Ho Ho Ho!
Salt Lake City Businessman Reprograms
His Company's KUVA GPS Device to Track Down Midnight
Theft of His ATV Christmas Present
Salt Lake City, UT (12/26/2007)
- In a case of technology triumphing over theft,
Salt Lake City resident Mike Petty unknowingly put
the KUVA, a sophisticated GPS asset tracking device
made by NovaTracker, to the test. Early last Friday
morning, Petty awoke to the revving engine of his
early Christmas present, a Sportsman 800 ATV, which
was being stolen.
After a successful getaway and unsuccessful chase,
the forlorn Petty contacted the police and filed
a report. Then he remembered his ATV had been
equipped with a KUVA, a portable, battery-powered
tracking device that integrates GPS satellite
tracking and GSM/GPRS cellular location reporting.
The device can be set to report at fixed time
intervals ranging from every five minutes to once
daily, so it can function as either an asset tracking
or portable vehicle monitoring device.
He immediately logged onto the NovaTracker website
to see if the KUVA had transmitted its location,
and easily reprogrammed it to report every five
minutes. In no time, he soon pinpointed the stolen
ATV's location by satellite image to a garage
behind a house less than two miles away. He re-contacted
the local police, and apprised them of the location.
The perpetrators were arrested, and the ATV was
recovered 15 minutes later, only two hours after
being stolen.
"Had I not had the tracking device on the
ATV, by accident, the ATV would have been MIA
for good," Petty explains. "It's not
really a holiday miracle, just technology that
works."
About NovaTracker
NovaTracker is a global provider of tracking and
communication products that are used in a range
of industries and applications: security, fleet,
service, asset monitoring, covert, personnel,
shipping, transportation, dispatch and delivery,
cargo and heavy equipment. Headquartered in Cranford,
New Jersey, NovaTracker has developed proprietary
and highly programmable technology used in the
world's most intelligent GPS and wireless tracking
products and solutions. The company was founded
in 2003 and has received funding from Columbus
Nova, a New York global private equity firm. For
more information, please visit www.novatracker.com.
www.novatracker.com
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