Anti-theft and recovery system
✔ Reduces machinery loss, keeps projects on track
✔ Innovative technology, enhances your brand
✔ Complies with the forthcoming Equipment Act
One-off fee from £145** no ongoing charges
See why the VIN CHIP theft detection and forensic security for agricultural machinery and equipment is the most advanced and effective system available.
VIN CHIP has a range of kits available for tractors, telehandlers, GPS equipment, attachments and implements, harvesters, ATV’s, quads, trailers and more.
VIN CHIP is a technology led theft detection and layered forensic security system, designed to change the future of agricultural vehicle and machinery security and reduce losses of agricultural equipment from theft.
Protecting your agricultural vehicles and machinery including quads, UTVs and trailers with the best anti theft devices will deter criminals and support the Police to quickly detect and recover them back to you. It will reduce disruption and inconvenience to your business as well as cost, for example replacing your stolen asset. It is the most innovative and advanced Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) agricultural machinery security system available – the best by a distance.
The system was introduced to combat leisure vehicle crime in 1998. It has evolved to become the leading security and recovery system for the industry and since being introduced, theft of caravans has fallen by 90%.
VIN CHIP is now available to new sectors, including the agricultural machinery industry, where theft is a major cause for concern.
The VIN CHIP agricultural machinery and equipment theft detection and forensic security system can be installed on almost all vehicles, machinery and farm equipment, including brands such as John Deere, JCB, Kubota, FENDT, New Holland, CASE, Massey Ferguson, VALTRA, Teagle, Krone, Merlo, Bunning, TRIOULET, CF MOTO, DEUTZ, Abbey, MAJOR, Malone, McHale, Bednar, Bateman, Tramspread, VERVALET, REDROCK, Richard Western, MacDon, SlurrayKat, Bailey, Ifor Williams, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Polaris, Chafer, and more.
Rural crime is at an all time high and theft of agricultural machinery and equipment, particularly ATVs, UTVs, Quads and Trailers is on the rise, despite having security measures in place. Latest trends and data report a sharp rise in incidents in the agricultural machinery sector.
Our agricultural machinery security system is based on RFID theft detection technology which has been used by police for over 25 years because:
The most advanced radio frequency identification chips available, capable of being read from up to 30 meters distance by our leading-edge scanners to speed up identification by the police.
Our own in-house ISO accredited Secure Registration Database provides a reliable, efficient and secure verification facility.
24/7 access to our own in-house contact centre, which is IS0 9001 Quality Management certified.
Trigger an initial validation check to quickly confirm the asset identity, using a simple QR reader easily scanned on a mobile phone.
Using the very latest in tamper evident material, maximising technology used in the aviation industry to add additional overt identification.
We apply 4000 micro-dots to add heavily populated covert markings. Each dot displays either the full Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) or a unique alphanumeric code that is registered to each asset.
The annual rural crime report by the NFU Mutual is one of the main indicators of current trends in UK rural crime.
When you’re building your highly advanced agricultural machines, you need innovative technology to make them sustainable and even more reliable. So shouldn’t you also choose an equally cutting-edge machinery security system? Choose VIN CHIP and you’ll be fitting the best RFID theft detection and forensic security system there is. Not only will customers’ machines be protected, so will your hard-earned reputation. You’ll also be compliant with key elements of the Equipment Theft Prevention Act 2023 when it becomes law.
Agricultural machinery theft is a rapidly growing threat to your customers’ livelihoods. To protect their machines, farmers and contractors are now looking at Dealers to fit the best vehicle security systems. By ensuring every vehicle you sell is fitted with VIN CHIP technology you can ensure these high-value investments have one of the most advanced theft detection and forensic security technologies available. It’s a cost-effective way to grow even stronger relationships with your customers.
If your agricultural machinery is stolen from a customer’s farm it can have a major impact on day-to-day work. The theft can affect harvest and cultivation work, not to mention the expense and loss of critical days at key points in the year when turnaround times are already tight. Fit VIN CHIP and you’ll protect your equipment with the best RFID theft deterrent technology available. It reduces the risk of loss – saving you time and money – and helps keep our farmers feeding the nation.
The need for agricultural vehicles and machinery security and anti-theft devices is rapidly growing across the UK as the sector is being hit hard by rural crime incidents, which is having a major impact on farming communities.
Agricultural vehicle and machinery theft is an escalating threat to farmers and our rural communities. Latest figures from the National Farmers Union Mutual show that the cost of rural crime increased by 22.1% in 2022, with agricultural quad theft up 34% and trailer theft up a staggering 66% in 2021.
The effects of these crimes don’t stop at the financial implications for farmers but cause immeasurable disruption to essential day to day farmwork, often at critical times, and delays whilst sourcing replacements for the stolen agricultural vehicles, machinery or equipment.
Farming families and rural communities are often left feeling vulnerable, intimidated and anxious. It is crucial to ensure your assets have the very best protection.
VIN CHIP’s agricultural vehicle and machinery security system uses innovative technology and alongside our work with the Police, it has successfully disrupted criminal activity in the leisure vehicle industry particularly the caravan sector. It can be equally effective in driving down vehicle, machinery and equipment theft in the agricultural industry.
Fitting VIN CHIP’s agricultural machinery anti-theft devices will provide the best RFID theft detection and forensic security available to protect your business critical machinery, whilst also supporting the UK’s fight against rural crime. It complies with the Equipment Theft Prevention Act 2023 and is an easy, cost-effective way to build in the best for your business and your customers.
The shocking truth is that stolen agricultural machinery and heavy equipment is often handed back to the criminals who stole it, as our identification expert in agricultural vehicles, machinery and equipment theft explains below:
“It is the ID process which is usually problematic for them. Heavy equipment isn’t like cars which are littered with traceable ID features, quite simply, if the chassis number and identifying features are removed, it is generally accepted that the machine will remain unidentifiable”.
"The theft of vehicles, plant and agricultural machinery can have an absolutely debilitating impact on local businesses and on people’s livelihoods."
Farming businesses suffer from the financial implications of sourcing replacement farm machinery and increased insurance premiums but also major disruption as a result of equipment theft.
Farmers have told us of the devastation they felt when they suffered a machine theft – the major impact on the day to day working of the farm, the delays affecting their harvest and cultivation work, not to mention the expense and losing critical days, at key times of the year, when turnaround times are already tight.
Organised criminals are targeting agricultural heavy machinery and farm equipment for their high resale values in the UK and in Europe. In fact, not only are the larger, heavy machinery such as tractors and agricultural telehandlers at high risk of theft but other vehicles such as quads, ATVs and GPS Systems which are easily portable, have seen a significant increase in thefts reported.
Most passenger vehicles today have many traceable components making them relatively easy to identify. Unfortunately, with agricultural vehicles and farm machinery, it is far more complex.
Criminals change the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) making it difficult to establish the original VIN and preventing easy identification of the stolen item. As a result, the police often have no choice but to return the machine to the person from whom it was seized. So, it’s easy to understand why many victims of crime believe their machine was never recovered.
Organised criminals are targeting farms not only for high value tractors but also ATV’s, GPS Systems and other equipment which are easily portable.
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** Discounts apply to larger volumes. Example cost is a dealer fit, excluding VAT
