About Us

Pole Star is the world’s leading provider of location-based fleet management, security and telematics services to the commercial marine sector and government administrations. As part of the Pole Star group of companies, Absolute Software provides solutions to monitor the location and status of mobile assets - both on land and at sea – on a worldwide basis.

We are a leading international provider of Fisheries Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) and Long-range Identification & Tracking Systems (LRIT) for large merchant maritime shipping. In total we provide a combination of monitoring and security related services to more than 35,000 vessels - half the world’s international fleet.

We also offer ruggedized solutions to the transportation, mining and oil & gas industries for terrestrial fleet monitoring. Our systems work in harsh environmental conditions, beyond the range of conventional radio or cellular data networks.

We have a long tradition of innovation - delivering fleet management services to customers who demand the highest level of support and service. We are one of the few suppliers with the demonstrated capability to offer support on a true 24x7x365 basis.

We have partnered with the leading Mobile Satellite Service hardware and airtime providers. When these best in class products are combined with our Fleet Information System the result is the most complete, reliable and secure fleet management solution available.