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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

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 http://www.novatracker.com.