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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
DETROIT, Oct 19, 2000 - (TSE:CSY): 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 today 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 st effectively increases the functionality of the MicroBurst network for all applications," stated Joe Olson, AssetVision
Program Manager at CSI Wireless. "With our MAXMIN(SM) programming language layered over the MicroBurst Mobile
Identification Number (MIN) we can perform hundreds of functions over a single MicroBurst MIN set, including remote re-
configuration. This allows many higher-bandwidth applications to take advantage of the low cost ubiquitous nature of the
Aeris.net network."
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 re information on Aeris.net, call 408/557-1900 or visit the Aeris.net Web site at www.aeris.net.
About CSI Wireless
With offices in Calgary, Silicon Valley, and Phoenix, CSI Wireless provides innovative, cost-effective, wireless and GPS
vehicle and asset management products for mobile and fixed applications in the automotive, commercial and consumer markets.
Through the integration of GPS and wireless, CSI is actively pursuing the emerging high growth markets with mobile-location
solutions for Fleet Management, Asset Tracking, Automotive Telematics, and Mobile Computing applications. The Company
owns a number of patents and intellectual property relating to a variety of wireless networks and GPS technologies. CSI
Wireless has licensed its cellular technology to GPS, cellular handset, and chipset manufacturers. The common shares of CSI
Wireless trade on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol "CSY", with approximately 13.7 million shares
outstanding.
"AssetVision for MicroBurst effectively increases the functionality of the MicroBurst network for all applications," stated Joe
Olson, AssetVision Program Manager at CSI Wireless. "With our MAXMIN(SM) programming language layered over the
MicroBurst Mobile Identification Number (MIN) we can perform hundreds of functions over a single MicroBurst MIN setout
Aeris.net
Aeris.net, headquartered in San Jose, Calif., provides web-to-wireless connectivity and control for a broad array of short
packet signaling and messaging services using its proprietary MicroBurst(TM) technology. The MicroBurst network employs
the control channel infrastructure of the cellular network as a transmission medium to achieve low cost of service and ubiquitous
coverage. Aeris.net currently has contracts deploying MicroBurst service across cellular service areas in all of the United
States, Mexico, Canada and much of South America. Initial applications include vehicle position and condition reporting,
security and equipment monitoring, and utility meter reading. For more information on Aeris.net, call 408/557-1900 or visit the
Aeris.net Web site at www.aeris.net.
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