High-tech gadgetry recently filled up the velvet-rope launch of PLDT-SME Nation’s unveiling of its recent tech innovation and solution for business field asset security—PLDT FASTrack in Cebu City.

The PLDT FASTrack, a pocket-sized, high-tech device for tracking and securing the location of goods and field personnel for SMEs, uses advanced satellite technology to give up-to-date, real-time information to SME owners, regarding the location of their goods and/or personnel while these are in transit.

SMEs were introduced to PLDT-SME Nation’s advance Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled tracking device that could benefit businesses that depend on delivering goods and other field assets, as part of their operations.

“PLDT FASTrack is specifically designed to help SMEs track their vehicle-carrying goods while in transit. Its features and monitoring tools enable business owners to determine the whereabouts of their fleet or vehicles thus allowing them to extract maximum efficiency and productivity from their employees,” said PLDT SME-Nation Vice President and Head Kat Luna-Abelarde.

Several Cebu-based logistics and shipment companies signed up and were able to get a first-hand demonstration of the PLDT FASTrack on their delivery trucks and vehicles. Demo units were hooked to vehicles from Gothong Southern, Fast Distribution, Southern Philippine Trucking Bell Petron Fuel Express, and UGARGON Trucking.

With entrepreneurs usually having little control over what happens to their goods while these are in transit during deliveries, the PLDT FASTrack assures any business owner the security of having control over their field assets during deliveries.

FASTrack uses a portable, pocket-sized homing device that is wirelessly connected to a GPS network. The network relies on satellite navigation technology to monitor the location of business field assets; providing on-the-road, real-time tracking of delivery personnel and vehicles.

PLDT FASTrack would be of great benefit to companies that require delivery of goods as part of their operations such as manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade; security and investigation; and service and utility companies.

“This simple device can offer a number of features that protects your business from bad elements and illegal operations that most business owners fear when it comes to transporting goods. Even their field agents can carry the device along with them,” said Amil Azurin, PLDT SME-Nation Marketing Head.

A detailed Graphical Map interface (displayed on a personal computer or laptop) provides details on the whereabouts of field staff and vehicles (or even an entire transport fleet) using an easy-to-understand GPS-surveyed digital map. It can pinpoint the exact location of on-the-road agents up to the secondary street level.

The PLDT FASTrack system can even send updates and alerts to a business owner’s mobile phone, regarding his vehicles’ and personnel’s whereabouts.