Tierra is a tool for gathering remote machine location, operating              hours and machine information. The Tierra solution allows                 managers to make more informed decisions, and eliminates slow,    inaccurate, and labor intensive data gathering regimens.

Tierra goes well beyond gathering large amounts of raw machine               data. Tierra sifts through all that data and provides immediate                  alerts and useful reports. And that allows managers to focus on                   the things that are actionable, with minimal effort required to                uncover those important pieces of information. The concept is                pretty simple. We’ve designed Tierra so that it won’t bother you               with situations that are ideal. It will alert you when a situationis less than ideal, allowing the manager to take immediate steps to improve the situation.

Here are the areas that Tierra will improve:

Security

Geofence – A geofence is a virtual fence drawn on a Google                  map. Tierra can text message and/or email managers whenever                      a machine is leaving a geofenced area. And once you know your           machine has left, it’s easy to track and recover. Law enforcement                 is typically more enthusiastic when they know exactly where to                  find a piece of stolen equipment. While any security system                        can theoretically be defeated, Tierra users enjoy a significantly                higher level of security than fleets that aren’t equipped. And                      with many contractors being self insured, or facing insurance                 premium increases when theft occurs, Tierra delivers a                      significant reduction in theft related costs.

Tierra reduces theft costs.

Lost Machines – Thankfully it doesn’t happen often, but it                     does happen. Somebody lost a backhoe, and now you’ve sent                      3 employees out on a search and rescue mission - eating up                            payroll and gas. Tierra users can locate their machines at the                   touch of a button.

Tierra reduces lost machine costs.

Curfew – Curfew is typically used to alert managers of unauthorized   machine use. Tierra is configured to provide a text message and/or          email alert when a machine is running outside of a customer’s                normal hours of operation. This is often useful for providing             notification when other contractors “borrow” a piece of                   equipment overnight.

Tierra reduces the cost of unauthorized machine use.

Remote Anti-Start – Tierra equipped machines can be remotely                   disabled in conjunction with the curfew feature. Machines are             disabled outside of a customer’s normal operating hours. Tierra              won’t shut down a machine while it’s running for safety reasons,                 but will keep the machine from starting once it has been shut down.        Tierra with remote anti-start can be used to prevent thieves from           driving unattended machines onto a transport, or off of a jobsite             during the dead of night.  A manager can remotely re-enable the          machine if a service crew requires after-hours access.(requires              AM50 Tierra Hardware)

Tierra reduces the cost of theft.

Maintenance

Tierra users set up machines to alert once they’ve reached                        their scheduled maintenance interval. Usually its 250 hours,                         but the Tierra system is user configurable for other intervals.                   Tierra replaces labor intensive and mistake prone manual data           collection regimens. And with accurate machine hours provided               daily, managers can be certain that machines are being serviced                    at the appropriate maintenance intervals. They will no longer be           serviced too infrequently, where machines are subject to higher              failure rates and warranty claim rejections. They will no longer be        serviced too often, where companies incur unnecessary labor and oil expenses. Tierra enables users to maintain machines within a much         tighter window of the specified service intervals. And service           technicians will no longer have to search for the machines they’ve             been sent out to service. They’ll know right where they are.

Tierra reduces labor costs, and improves maintenance procedures             and machine residual values.

Utilization

Tierra users are able to quickly determine which machines are                    not being used, and available for redeployment to a more               appropriate job site. Imagine being able to pull up a report in                       30 seconds that shows all of your backhoes with less than 3 hours              run time in the last week. Are you renting backhoes on other               jobsites? Can those rental expenses be avoided if you have real                time information on machine usage?

Tierra reduces data collection costs, and improves                              machine utilization.

Job Costing

Most contractors gather machine run time for job costing. The                  data gathering process is typically expensive, labor intensive,                subject to clerical errors, and even more subject to fudging. And                 the process takes days - sometimes weeks or months. By then                    an audit trail can go cold, and getting at the truth can be difficult.             Tierra provides this information daily, and reports are available                  with few simple keystrokes. The data is reliably accurate, and not         subject to human error or fudging. In addition, with integration into    contractor software, the cost of human data entry can be eliminated.        Some users configure geofences so that a machine sends an alert              when a machine arrives on the jobsite. This can trigger the internal         machine billing to begin for that jobsite.

Tierra reduces data collection costs, and improves job costing          timeliness and accuracy.

Tierra ROI

1. Security
   • Labor wasted gathering and inputting hours:
   • Calculation - Number of field employees X average                         hourly burdened labor rate X ………
2. Maintenance
3. Utilization
4. Job Costing
5. Productivity
6. Work vs. Idle fuel savings calculator.
   

How Does It Work

The Tierra solution has 3 components.

• The Tierra Hardware is the communications device installed                  on your machine.
  
• The Tierra Service Plan enables the features you need, and                   configures how often the unit communicates.
• TierraWeb is the internet based user interface – where you’ll                 go to configure alerts, and generate reports.