Ipsidy and Skypatrol Ink Agreement for SkyGuru™ in
Latin America
Ipsidy Inc.and Skypatrol LLC announced they have
agreed to offer SkyGuru. SkyGuru combines
Skypatrol's GPS technology with Ipsidy's Transact
digital issuance platform and mobile biometrics to
deliver integrated cost-control and expense
management to trucking fleet operators and logistics
companies throughout the Latin American market.
SkyGuru enables trucking fleet operators to create
mobile wallets with virtual payment cards for their
drivers; place funds in those accounts with a click
of a button; enroll gas stations and other merchants
with whom the fleet does business; and monitor all
activity in real-time. Thanks to SkyGuru, fleets and
their drivers no longer need to pay for fuel or
services with cash, vouchers, or their personal bank
accounts, or payment cards.
SkyGuru is powered by Ipsidy's Transact digital
issuance platform offering the Ipsidy Mobile Wallet,
a virtual payment account, for mobile devices. The
fleet's drivers simply download the Ipsidy Mobile
Wallet and then proceed to make their purchases of
fuel or other services at participating gas station
and other merchants, to which Skypatrol's systems
can specifically route them. Participating merchants
use Ipsidy's mobile point-of-sale application (MPOS)
on a mobile device, thus avoiding the need to
purchase and install expensive hardware. Merchants
are also able to authenticate the identity of the
driver by means of Ipsidy's powerful facial
biometric identity solution. Finally, the fleet
operator can manage the entire system by means of
the financial and fleet management portals provided
by Ipsidy and Skypatrol. The system is designed to
reduce fraud and paperwork, simplify cash management
and allow the fleet operator to track and control
the use of their resources.
Skypatrol has agreed to offer SkyGuru as part of its
GPS-based fleet-management solution to enhance the
operational efficiency and productivity of its
clients' operations. Skypatrol currently operates
throughout
Latin America and the
Caribbean and its customers and
end users operate in excess of 1,000,000 vehicles.
"We are excited to launch
this innovative mobile payment and identity
solution, combined with our proven GPS
based services. This is
the next generation of fleet management software
solutions and will allow our clients to
significantly improve their operations by lowering
costs and improving efficiencies,"
said
Robert Rubin, President & CEO of
Skypatrol. "We
are pleased to partner with Ipsidy and believe that
the Skypatrol-Ipsidy SkyGuruTM
solution will complement our existing solutions and
provide our clients with a state-of-the-art, secure,
easy to implement, business management tool."
Philip Beck,
Chairman and CEO of Ipsidy said "Ipsidy
is pleased to partner with
Skypatrol to
launch this innovative fleet-management solution
throughout the Latin American market. The
combination of Ipsidy's Transact platform and our
biometric identity
authentication
technology, with Skypatrol's broadly adopted GPS
solutions, will, we believe, create a powerful
offering providing the high level of transaction
security, control and certainty that is required to
operate in the critical logistics sector."