New Technologies to Protect you and Your Assets

Cases of personal identity theft, car or motorcycle theft, scrap metal theft and so forth occur so often now it seems we become impervious to their daily reports on the news media. Yet, when you consider the economic and personal cost of these thefts, the amounts are staggering. So where do you turn.

Well there are all the normal tips and tricks:

Alarms, Dogs, and Crazed Ducks! 

When it comes to protecting assets I think it has all been tried. However, if you can see it then you can steal it. Equally if you can see the theft prevention device then like the asset itself, if you can see it then you can remove it. Hence making the theft deterrent more of a peace of mind aid for than a real prevention tool.

There has to be something more...

Well one answer in the long list of new asset protection technologies is microdots.

Microdots engender a mindful of possibilities, and yet in reality they are 1mm identification tags which can be plastered all over the parts of your assets. So how do these 007 covert dot things work?

Microdots work by making it harder for the bad guys (or gals) to resell your assets. The worst thing for a thief is for the police to trace stolen items back to them. So these little dots link the asset to its rightful owner using a PIN number on each dot. Therefore if police find a dot, they can ultimately find you and the bad guy.

Sounds too easy

Well the technology is simple and easy to apply and comes for car, motorcycles, laptops, and pretty much anything that moves. The key to this technology is that the thieves don't have the time nor the will power to remove thousands of dots from the interior of a car engine before they can sell the parts. Hence they leave it alone - hence a true theft deterrent.

So where does the Personal Protection come in?

Well firstly by identifying that you are the owner of an asset, it makes it harder to resell and hence protects your assets from theft. However, one company, DotGuard International, an international microdot distributor, has also combined this with a Personal Indentity Theft program.

This program allows for up to $25000 in expense coverage if your identity is stolen, discounted legal services, roadside assistance and much more. Now as usual, terms and conditions apply, but this program allows you to mark your assets and protect your identity at the same time - surely a good thing.

More information on the DotGuard Microdot program can be found at www.micro-dot.org or www.asset-guard.com