During 2008, expanding from its historical focus on marine vessel and vehicle tracking, SARS extended its offerings to include systems and services to monitor remote, stationary assets, and is now offering services on seven continents and four oceans. SARS believes that remote, real-time monitoring and alarm notification services have broad-based appeal because they can reduce labor requirements and provide web based access for real time asset management and regulatory reporting. The improved management of companies' assets reduces the need for, and the consumption of, scarce global resources. Improved fleet and marine management reduces fuel costs and improves maintenance schedules; real-time inventory data (in the LPG supply market) can eliminate meter readings, unnecessary deliveries and remote monitoring of large facilities reducing on-site personnel. Heightened security sensitivity worldwide has created numerous opportunities to track or monitor vulnerable assets and infrastructure.
SARS' monitoring and alarm services for prevention of Marine piracy, checking equipment malfunction, violation of operating parameters (e.g., oil rig moves off station) and measurement of consumption-based maintenance events. SARS uses off-the-shelf products, with proprietary software to develop system packages. SARS' back office systems give the Company technical abilities to communicate with all currently available satellite systems, GPRS networks, local area networks and allow SARS to simultaneously operate systems in Europe, China, and North and South America.