According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Report, a motor vehicle is stolen every 26.4 seconds in the United States. Whether it is a company or personal car, a truck in a company’s fleet, or any other type of vehicle, the costs are almost always the same and have a significant impact on more than just the owner. The costs to the owner and others include:

• Vehicle replacement costs
• Lost valuables kept in the car
• Higher insurance premiums and deductibles
• Lost productivity
• Increased threats to personal and public safety
• Criminal investigations and law enforcement

Every day, car thieves are becoming savvier and finding new ways to defeat even the most sophisticated anti-theft systems. In many cases, thieves need only a few moments to successfully circumvent a car alarm and steal the vehicle.

The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) states that only 64% of stolen vehicles are ever recovered. While there are few, if any solutions for ensuring that a vehicle is never taken, the faster a stolen vehicle can be recovered the more likely it is that damage will be minimized and personal property recovered.

Tools like the location-enabled tracking platforms built on Omnilink’s FocalPoint™ platform have the ability to track vehicles both indoors and outdoors in real time to significantly decrease the time needed to recover a vehicle. Functionality, like the enter/exit zones and schedules included in solutions built on FocalPoint™, enable users to receive automatic alerts if a vehicle leaves a specific area or is not in a specific location when required.