EZURiO announces WiTS - a Cellular-free Telematics Platform at Wireless Fleet 2007

2/20/2007 -- Wooburn Green, UK - 19th February 2007 - EZURiO is using the Wireless Fleet 2007 event in Miami, Florida to announce their major new telematics platform called WITS - the Wireless Intelligent Telematics System. WITS is based on EZURiO's latest Wireless M2M system and combines inexpensive, intelligent vehicle data logging monitors with an end-to-end system that securely replicates the data with a hosted database. The system provides an easy to deploy platform that fleet management companies can use to build their own applications. WITS offers a cellular-free 802.11 (Wi-Fi) transmission scheme that removes the cost of SIMs and network subscriptions.

Until the development of WITS, every telematics system has been built upon proprietary hardware and middleware, generally relying on an expensive cellular link. WITS changes this paradigm by providing a standard hardware unit that populates an SQL database with remote data. The hardware in the vehicle is intelligent, so that installation can be performed by an unskilled user. Cellular-free communications offer a quantum shift in vehicle monitoring. By using 802.11, either when parked at home, at a business location, or using increasingly ubiquitous Muni-Fi networks - data transfer becomes effectively free. Removing the cost of a mobile subscription enables a wide range of applications that have hitherto been non-viable from a cost perspective. The greater bandwidth available to short range wireless systems also allows far more data to be retrieved - typically factors of several hundred more is economic with a cellular system, further opening up new business opportunities.

EZURiO's concentration on the underlying platform provides the data acquisition delivery that Fleet Management companies can use to build their own applications. Typical applications include:

• Vehicle Utilisation

• Driver Behaviour

• Vehicle Health

• Pay-as-you-go Insurance

• Regulatory Compliance Records

• Exception Logging

• Vehicle Route Records

The open database structure of the WiTS platform makes it easy for Fleet Management businesses to integrate the data with other sources, such as geographic mapping, location services, traffic information and driver cellphone tracking. A wide variety of data can be recorded at intervals as frequent as once per second, and the embedded memory in the hardware units can record up to 45 days of information. The units are tamper proof and even capable of transmitting data if they are removed from the vehicle.

"Before the advent of EZURiO's WITS platform, Fleet Management businesses needed to devote a large part of their development resources to areas in which they were not expert," said Chris Shannon, CEO of EZURiO Ltd. "With WITS they have a robust, secure platform that they can use to innovate. It allows them to concentrate on bringing new applications and business propositions to market at a fraction of the time and cost. We believe that the ease of deployment that the WITS platform offers will result in a step change in telematics usage."

EZURiO's end-to-end WITS platform will be available for sampling in Q2 of 2007.

About EZURiO

EZURiO is the leading supplier of short range wireless M2M solutions and offers data capture and secure voice and data transmission via Bluetooth and 802.11 Local Area Networks. EZURiO is one of only a few companies capable of delivering a true end to end solution, from the capture of data through secure communication over wireless networks by way of the internet to a middleware platform that is either user hosted or accessed over secure connections from EZURiO's dedicated web farm.

EZURiO has extensive experience of the integration of end-to-end wireless technology including Bluetooth and 802.11 solutions that provide instant, pre-approved wireless capability to a wide range of OEM customers. The company's long involvement with wireless technology has resulted in a range of solutions that are acknowledged as setting the standard for short range wireless connectivity, with extended range, low power and lowest cost of ownership.

EZURiO has offices in USA and the UK with an extensive near global distribution network.

For more information on EZURiO, go to: http://www.ezurio.com

Source: EZURiO