Netistix Announces Release 3.0

Friday March 31st, 2006

Netistix Announces Release 3.0 at CTIA Wireless 2006

FleetPulse adds capability to leverage Municipal Wireless Projects

Publication: April 5 2006

April 5, 2006. Enhanced Fleet Application Supports Municipal Wi-Fi Networks Released at CTIA 2006 (Netistix – Booth #5103-1G)

Ottawa: Netistix Technologies, a leading company in the vehicle telematics space, today announced Release 3.0 of their popular FleetPulse WIRELESS AUTOMOTIVE FLEET MONITORING SYSTEM. The new release contributes to the momentum the company has already achieved including national product deployment and distribution deals announced earlier this year.

“Given the growth we’re seeing in municipal Wi-Fi networks around the world, we expect our product will be appealing since it was originally developed as a Wi-Fi business application and will perform equally well on public Wi-Fi infrastructure”, said Gord Echlin, CEO of Netistix Technologies. “Leveraging these existing infrastructures lowers the payback for fleet management applications even more.”

The new version of FleetPulse, released today at the 2006 CTIA Show in Las Vegas, features VIUPoint Access Service (VAS) capabilities which enables wide area deployment of one or many Wi-Fi access points to be centrally managed as a centrally hosted service, in conjunction with the FleetPulse application. VAS compliments the existing VIUPoint wireless site manager functionality inherent with FleetPulse where a server is required per local access point. VAS lowers the cost of Wi-Fi deployments.

This feature also permits easy deployment of fleet management applications within the burgeoning municipal Wi-Fi market. For municipalities and other public entities, Netistix FleetPulse provides a compelling return on investment opportunity for cities, counties and other public entities that wish to attract Wi-Fi enabled applications to their new networks. “Imagine having your fleet vehicles drive through one of the many Muni Wi-Fi projects and have key vehicle diagnostic and driving data automatically downloaded without expensive cellular airtime costs common with other wireless fleet management solutions.”

Release 3.0 also includes additional fleet specific features such as extending real time fuel consumption calculation from OBDII data to support MAP (Manifold Air Pressure) equipped vehicles. Vehicles equipped with MAF (Manifold Air Flow) fuel systems are already supported.

There is also an improved graphical user interface including the new fleet manager Dashboard, which allows quick and easy viewing of key operational data on one screen, related to safety, diagnostics and fuel consumption, without spending time reviewing multiple reports.

The new ‘Off Usage’ feature of Fleetpulse 3.0 enables quick assessments of fleet vehicles operating within or outside normal business hours. This important feature allows fleet managers to accurately track overtime and unauthorized usage and billing.

About Netistix Technologies

Netistix Technologies Corporation develops, markets and sells an innovative fleet monitoring system and related applications for organizations that have significant fleet operations, including fleet management companies and their repair service providers. Netistix FleetPulse system helps these businesses improve their vehicle and fleet management tasks and become more profitable and productive. It blends native engine data and OBDII diagnostics data with low-cost web services and Wi-Fi infrastructures to lower the total cost of fleet ownership and fleet operations.

Netistix is privately owned and operated from headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario – Canada’s Silicon Valley North. In 2005, the company was named to the Branham Group’s Top 25 Up and Coming technology companies in Canada.

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