A taggle is a small, low-cost, long-life tag that transmits the location of an asset. It can also transmit a small amount of information, such as a meter reading, a tamper alert, or the temperature. The system is intended to enable customers to use the internet to track the location of their asset at anytime and monitor any additional data sent by the taggle.

Business could use taggles to track and monitor mobile assets such as pallets, containers, tools, computers, supermarket trolleys, scientific equipment, machinery, shipments, hire equipment and cattle, or for sensing applications such as meter reading, chemical detection and tamper alerts for security seals.  Consumers could use taggles to track pets, cars, boats, sporting goods (for example bikes, golf clubs, camping gear, skis, kayaks etc.), toys, tools, electronic goods, or for social networking applications.

Potential government applications include structural health monitoring of public infrastructure (for example railways and bridges etc.), remote monitoring of water levels and salinity, bushfire detection, environmental monitoring (for example greenhouse gas emissions) and tracking of public transport stock and other government assets.

Currently the taggle is in development and testing phase, with a test network for tracking cattle in Tweed Heads, and a further test network being developed in Southern Sydney.

Initially, Telstra will assist Taggle Systems by contributing expertise with radio network planning, providing a backhaul network for the transmission of data from the taggle and potentially providing access to Sensis mapping data to show the location of the taggles.