Competitor Analysis

“While plant continues to use mechanical diesel engines, electronic immobilisers (as found on cars) are ineffective and electro-mechanical immobilisation systems should be used. Electro-mechanical systems primarily shut-off the diesel fuel supply and/or the hydraulics”
September 2007. P 27 UK Home Office Report.

Kosran is an engineering company and endorses the above Home Office specification. In the UK we are the industry standard and endorsed by the Top 5 Plant insurers on performance and merit. We have never had a machine bypassed and stolen. Our Kosran ’fit for purpose’ Standard demands safe and secure systems which will resist bypass and attack for a minimum of 30 minutes.

1. Trackers real name: Asset Management.
   Should kick-in after it’s stolen, you have a <5% chance of it being recovered AND it
   will cost you.
2. Electronic immobilisers on plant cut the electrical circuits.
   Without exception they can be hot-wired in maximum 90 seconds (no matter who they are certified by). They make your plant more vulnerable to theft because the operator is less vigilant parking up because he thinks the machine is secured – which it isn’t.
3. Trackers with Electronic Immobiliser
   See 1 & 2 above – won’t stop it being stolen and you won’t get it back.
4. Kosran stops Plant Theft & Unauthorised use.
   We stop fatalities and make safety a priority. We have integrated machine telematics/asset management with our electro-mechanical immobilisation system. No Kosran system has ever been bypassed.

Farmweek.com reports that farm thefts cost the UK agricultural industry over £40 million in 2009 with expensive tractors topping the wish list as the most desirable item for the organised thieves.

New research from large rural insurer NFU Mutual indicates that rural crime rose last year, led by a sharp increase of 4.8 per cent in the theft of expensive tractors.

During the past two years there has been a significant increase in tractor numbers stolen 'to order 'often for immediate export fromo channel ports to destinations including Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

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