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Pre-configured, self-powered Fleet-Link(TM) remotely monitors and manages truck trailers, freight containers, and other mobile assets from central command center. Offering solar-powered option, device communicates using MicroBurst[R] cellular network, which provides seamless coverage throughout North America. Fleet-Link can monitor and report on cargo that has been opened during transit, excess vehicle speeds, door alarms that have been activated, and distance traveled.

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Pre-configured, self-powered unit ideal for truck trailer and container applications

Las Vegas, Nevada - Oct. 4, 2004 - (TSX:CSY): CSI Wireless Inc., a designer and manufacturer of advanced wireless and GPS products used in more than 50 countries, today announced that its Fleet-Link(tm) asset-tracking product is now being shipped to application service providers, OEMs and other customers. Fleet-Link is a self-powered asset-tracking product to remotely monitor and manage truck trailers, freight containers and other mobile assets from a central command centre.

Fleet-Link cost-effectively addresses shippers' growing need to constantly track the locations of their goods. The first model of Fleet-Link - including a solar-powered option that is generating substantial interest from potential purchasers - is ideal for trucking companies and other overland shippers in the Americas. It communicates using the low-cost MicroBurst[R] cellular network, developed by Aeris.net, which provides seamless coverage throughout North America.

CSI Wireless will soon introduce a second model of Fleet-Link for the global marketplace - to serve trucking companies and other overland shippers, plus container ships and other ocean-traveling vessels. This version will communicate using the Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) cellular technology that is employed by almost three quarters of the world's wireless subscribers and networks.

More than 90 per cent of all goods transported internationally are carried in freight containers. In the wake of increasing terrorism activity worldwide, there is growing public concern that freight containers could be used to smuggle terrorists and/or their weapons. Fleet-Link is designed to improve logistics and security - benefiting both the shipper and security personnel. It features sufficient battery life to continue operating at the conclusion of ocean transits, which average 20 days.

Fleet-Link's competitive advantages include:

Installation in 15 minutes or less

Self-powered - featuring its own battery that can be recharged from the truck's battery or from an optional solar panel when the trailer is not connected to the truck

Efficiently powered - featuring a sophisticated power-management system and motion-sensing to maximize battery life; plus essentially unlimited power using the optional solar panel

Affordable, rugged and self-contained

Pre-configured to accommodate a wide variety of telematics and fleet or freight-tracking applications, but also well-suited to customized applications

"Fleet-Link will 'future-proof' our customers because it can be easily upgraded to digital from analog, and to 3.0G from 2.5G," said Stephen Verhoeff, CSI Wireless' President and CEO. "Our initial release is designed for analog MicroBurst use, but it can be easily upgraded to digital MicroBurst or other available technologies as customer needs evolve. We also plan to offer versions incorporating IXRTT and WiFi technologies."

Examples of conditions that Fleet-Link can monitor and report on include:

Cargo that has been opened during transit

Cargo that has stopped outside of its origin or destination for a longer-than-required time

Vehicle speeds in excess of prescribed limits

Vehicles that divert from prescribed routes

Engine use or idling time is in excess of prescribed limits

Refrigerated load temperatures that are outside of prescribed limits

Door alarms that have been activated

Distance-traveled reports, including driver hour logs

Use and location of leased assets

Fleet-Link's initial customers include Robertson Group, the Nashville, Tennessee-based application service provider and long-haul trucking company whose Best Online Tracking or "BOLT" Internet-based fleet management system is designed for small and mid-sized trucking firms, with fewer than 500 trucks.

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