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New UK High Accuracy Tracking Service Based on CPS Matrix Technology and Orange Network

CAMBRIDGE, England, December 19 -- A low cost, high accuracy positioning system, which locates vehicles and other valuable assets, is launched this week by HD Positions. The highly innovative and unique solution, which works across the UK, with coverage inside buildings and containers, uses CPS's Matrix technology and is based on the Orange UK network.

Matrix technology is available from HD Positions. In response to increasing demand from the growing number of location based service providers, for a low cost, robust and easy to implement positioning solution, HD Positions supplies the interface to Matrix, and facilitates related Machine to Machine (M2M) services, including network connectivity, billing and support.

"Using CPS's Matrix technology with Orange's Cell ID provides an exceptional level of location accuracy," comments Melissa Jenkins, M2M product manager, Orange Business Solutions, UK. "This new development, using CPS's Matrix high accuracy technology to support such an imaginative service rollout, further underlines how Orange supports practical and innovative solutions for the UK business market."

Nigel Chadwick, director of HD Positions, highlights "Until now, the market for high accuracy positioning systems has been held back by a number of factors, including poor area coverage, prohibitive purchase, fitting and operating costs, power consumption, and slow and inconsistent location reporting. Matrix, combined with the latest devices now appearing on the market, provides consistent high accuracy positioning with high speed reporting at low cost."

One of the first complete solutions to use the Matrix system is the "Boomerang Box" - a robustly constructed device, combining low installation cost and a two year battery life. This is one of the first devices to address a wide range of potential applications including the tracking of trailers, cars, motorcycles, caravans, and many other valuable assets.

The first end user of the service is the Altrincham based Cartwright group, a leading provider in the UK of vehicle transport solutions. The company plans to install Matrix enabled Boomerang Boxes in their vehicles to meet customer demand for tracking and vehicle recovery. Last year, over 4,000 trailers were stolen across the UK, with associated goods taken totalling more than GBP1bn(i). Cartwright is a customer of Retreve a leading solution provider of telematic systems.

(i)(source: Truckpol, November 2004)