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October 2000
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CSI Wireless to enable Low-cost Vehicle & Asset Tracking in North & South
America
Allows high-bandwidth type services using low-cost packet data networks
CSI Wireless Inc, is a leading provider of advanced wireless and GPS technologies for the high growth automotive, commercial, and consumer markets. In conjunction with Convergence 2000 in Detroit, Michigan, the premier automotive electronics conference in the world, CSI Wireless unveiled an innovative new technology solution integrating GPS with wireless packet data communications. The result is a powerful wireless location tracking
product, capable of tracking, monitoring, and managing vehicles and assets virtually anywhere in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and throughout much of South America.
The new product, named AssetVision(TM) for MicroBurst(R), is a highly configurable tool for vehicle tracking and control, and remote asset management, offering hundreds of diagnostic and command and control functions previously only available over higher cost networks. By combining GPS location technologies and MicroBurst wireless packet data communications into one integrated product, CSI Wireless has created a low-cost mobile
solution for many telemetry and telematics applications.
"Most telematics applications have historically run over more expensive wireless networks," said Stephen Verhoeff, President and CEO of CSI Wireless. "The resulting solution has been costly and coverage tends to be sparse, impeding real market growth and penetration. With AssetVision for MicroBurst, many of these services can be provided at price points low enough for mass market adoption."
The new AssetVision from CSI Wireless enables location centric services through an unbeatable combination of lowest cost wireless data, with the largest coverage area available over a single network - MicroBurst. The
MicroBurst network, owned and managed by Aeris.net, employs the control channel infrastructure of cellular networks as a transmission medium to achieve low cost wireless data services and near-ubiquitous coverage.
Aeris.net has contracts with multiple carriers, deploying MicroBurst coverage over cellular service areas across virtually all of the United States, Canada and Mexico, and much of South America. The MicroBurst
network can be used for vehicle position and condition reporting, security, and equipment monitoring. With AssetVision for MicroBurst, the functionality of the network is substantially increased, allowing an array
of new applications.
CSI Wireless is already in discussions with customers in both the United States and Canada for utilization of AssetVision for MicroBurst for nation wide vehicle telematics services, which will include initial applications
such as navigation, security, vehicle and door-lock control, airbag deployment notification and emergency dispatch. The Company is also working with customers with commercial fleet management applications including
remote monitoring of engines, oil pressure, fuel, runtime hours, and geo-fencing in addition to typical location-based information.
More information available at www.aeris.net.
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