Portsmouth's A2B Tracking Solutions, a U.S. leader in scanning technology for companies such as Target and the United Parcel Service (UPS), aims to make life easier for businesses. The company found early success in 1994 when the company developed label-generating software for retail giants K-Mart and Wal-Mart.

Since 1994 A2B Tracking Solutions has become a leader in moving the industry into mobile computing. To date, the company has completed more than 2,000 tracking installations around the world and is now working with the Department of Defense to bring bar coding technology to Army supply depots to manage orders and inventories.