Pedigree Technologies, a provider of M2M applications for inventory and asset performance management, has released Tag-n-Track, its first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) solution specifically designed to track high-value assets for field service automation.

This release, according to the company, is the latest of the Pedigree OneView applications designed to address inefficiencies in operations for industries with heavy reliance on people, plants and equipment like Energy, Agriculture, Mining and Transportation.

"We developed this in response to our customers' need to be able to quickly find mobile equipment and assets in large, open spaces like farms and oil fields," Alex Warner, chief executive officer of Pedigree Technologies said.

"With Tag-n-Track they can shorten the search time from days to minutes," Warner added.

As stated, Tag-n-Track is a turnkey, web-based solution that can be installed simply and quickly to provide daily location updates for all of a company's tracked assets. The application combines satellite tracking data with location and performance information from other enterprise assets such as vehicles, stationary equipment and people to provide a unified view of operations in a single web interface.

The Tag-n-Track service extends the current suite of asset monitoring applications in Pedigree OneView including Fleet Management, Inventory Monitoring and Machine Health Monitoring (M2M). In addition to tracking mobile assets, the Tag-n-Track application also provides equipment options to monitor the performance of the equipment, inventory levels and environmental conditions. 

"Tag-n-Track can make a substantial contribution to our customers' bottom line," said Ian McPherson, vice president of sales and marketing at Pedigree said.

 "This is really about improving operations, starting with basic location awareness and extending to condition-based monitoring for sense-and-respond maintenance, logistics and replenishment," McPherson added.