TCS Inc. and Inrix Partner to Enable Enterprise Workers to Become More Traffic Aware With 20/20 Traffic Alerts
TCS Enhances Their 20/20 Mobility Suite(TM) Mobile Workforce Solution With Inrix's Leading Real-Time Traffic Information
ANNAPOLIS, Md. and KIRKLAND, Wash., Feb. 20 -- Inrix Inc., the leading provider of traffic information, and TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) , a leading provider of mission-critical wireless data solutions, today announced the enhancement of TCS' 20/20 Mobility Suite(TM) through the incorporation of Inrix's real-time traffic information.
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The TCS 20/20 Mobility Suite(TM) provides enterprises with complete visibility into their mobile workforces, including proof of delivery and related information for managing outside-the-warehouse logistics. With the addition of Inrix's real-time traffic technology, 20/20 Traffic Alerts can monitor traffic incidents in the vicinity of the driver's planned route and alert the driver's wireless mobile computer when traffic incidents occur. The real-time traffic information, provided by Inrix in partnership with Clear Channel's Total Traffic Network, allows the driver to avoid potential delays due to traffic congestion or road closures.
TCS' Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Doug Stovall, said, "TCS chose Inrix as its traffic data provider based upon the company's comprehensive market coverage, superior data quality and unique portfolio of innovative traffic solutions. TCS is committed to ensuring that our customers have the most accurate traffic information possible so they can manage their mobile workforces efficiently. Inrix's traffic content enhances the new traffic service feature of our 20/20 Suite."
"With the enhancements of its 20/20 Mobility Suite(TM), TCS is continuing its leading-edge innovations in the enterprise Location Based Services market," said Bryan Mistele, Inrix president and CEO. "We are excited to partner with a market leader like TCS in providing easy-to-use and highly effective solutions for the mobile workforce."
TCS' 20/20 Mobility Suite(TM) with 20/20 Traffic Alerts is available today in most major cities in the United States. TCS' 20/20 Mobility Suite incorporates TCS' Xypoint Mapping Server and Xypoint Dynamic Data Server which provide integrated traffic-based routing, mapping and traffic information. For more information, visit www.telecomsys.com/enterprise/2020_GPS, and www.telecomsys.com/apps.
About Inrix
Inrix is the leading provider of accurate real-time, historical and predictive traffic information nationwide, providing industry partners and customers with the highest quality data and broadest coverage available for personal navigation, mapping, and other location-based service applications in the car, online and on mobile devices.
Inrix Traffic Services leverage sophisticated statistical analysis techniques, originally developed by Microsoft Research, to aggregate and enhance traffic-related information from hundreds of public and private sources, going well beyond the limitations of static road sensor networks, historical-based models and cellular data aggregators, to offer customers the most sophisticated understanding of the unique system-wide traffic patterns in each metropolitan area. Additionally, Inrix offers real-time incident data for 130 markets through its partnership with Clear Channel Total Traffic Network. To experience the traffic technology revolution behind the next generation of navigation and location-based service applications, visit www.inrix.com.
About TeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) produces wireless data communications technology solutions that require proven high levels of reliability. TCS provides wireless and VoIP E9-1-1 network-based services, secure deployable satellite-based communication systems, and related engineered services, and commercial location applications, like traffic and navigation, using the precise location of a wireless device. Customers include leading wireless and VoIP carriers around the world, and agencies of the U.S. Departments of Defense, State, and Homeland Security. For more information, please visit www.telecomsys.com.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements are based upon TCS' current expectations and assumptions that are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that would cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated.
The actual results realized by the Company could differ materially from the statements made herein, depending in particular upon the risks and uncertainties described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These include without limitation risks and uncertainties relating to the Company's financial results and the ability of the Company to (i) reach and sustain profitability when anticipated, (ii) continue to rely on its customers and other third parties to provide additional products and services that create a demand for its products and services, (iii) conduct its business in foreign countries, (iv) adapt and integrate new technologies into its products, (v) expand its business offerings in the new wireless data industry, (vi) develop software and provide services without any errors or defects, (vii) protect its intellectual property rights, and (viii) implement its sales and marketing strategy.
Existing and prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the information in this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances, or otherwise.
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