KeyTrak, a provider of key and asset management systems, is building on its partnership with real-time location services company TrueSpot with a system designed to allow dealership personnel to locate vehicles and their keys faster from the palm of their hand.

The companies will unveil their new tool at this week’s NADA Show in New Orleans.

“Over the past year, the collaboration between TrueSpot and KeyTrak has continued to accelerate at a tremendous pace,” TrueSpot CEO Mike Hanna said. “It has allowed us to enable new integrations that deliver even more advanced capabilities to KeyTrak dealers.”

   

Mike Hanna                          Steve Robinson

KeyTrak Edge pinpoints the location of keys or vehicles with map view of the dealership, the companies said in a news release, helping sales and service associates looking for those assets. KeyTrak’s mobile app enables a quick search capability with the asset’s location pinned on the map.

“And for hard-to-find assets, like hidden keys,” Hanna said, “they can use Modar Mode, which employs Mobile Radar functionality — a feature mimicking radar by guiding users closer to their asset using proximity feedback — even if it’s in a desk drawer or salesperson’s pocket.”

KeyTrak vice president of sales Steve Robinson said being able to search for assets quickly and track them with a mobile device makes finding keys and vehicles much easier.

“And in this business, customers’ time is valuable,” he said. “Every minute matters.”

To save even more time, the companies said, the key tracker now responds in real time, switching seamlessly from Maps Mode to the Enhanced Modar Mode, a proprietary feature designed to deliver a better and quicker key-finding experience, saving hours of wasted time searching for missing assets and hundreds of dollars per key in rekeying costs.