Patent ID: 7486185

Claim:
An asset location system comprising: a plurality of tracking devices, each tracking device including, triggering means adapted for commencing at least one asset tracking event; means adapted for enabling a portable, wireless transmitter associated with at least one asset of interest upon commencement of the at least one asset tracking event; means adapted for commencing a data transmission from an enabled transmitter, which data transmission includes a transmission of asset identification data associated with an identity of the at least one asset of interest; location data output means adapted for outputting location data in accordance with a received data transmission from the enabled transmitter; means adapted for outputting, via the portable wireless transmitter, status data corresponding to a maintenance property of the transmitter; and a security agency including, means adapted for receiving asset identification data corresponding to a plurality of assets in accordance with a corresponding commenced asset tracking event associated with each of the plurality of tracking devices, means adapted for receiving the status data from each of the plurality of tracking devices; means adapted for periodically receiving location data corresponding to a current location of the at least one asset associated with each of the plurality of tracking devices, storage means adapted for storing historic location data representative of received real time location data associated with each of the plurality of tracking devices, identification means adapted for identifying at least one client associated with each tracking device; notification means adapted to notify at least one client in accordance with a commenced asset tracking event and an output of the identification means, means adapted for identifying a law enforcement agency associated with each asset and associated tracking event; means adapted for alerting each identified law enforcement agency relative to each associated asset and tracking event identified therewith; and transmission means adapted for transmission of at least one of real time location data and historic location data to the at least one client.