HD POSITIONS AND CPS LAUNCH NEW UK HIGH ACCURACY TRACKING SERVICE BASED ON CPS MATRIX TECHNOLOGY AND ORANGE NETWORK 

- ‘Boomerang Box’ device to protect vehicles and assets                                                                                                                                                         - low-cost and fast, sub-100m accuracy                                                                                                                                                                                      - first customer to track and recover trailers

(Cambridge, UK, 19 December 2005) 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 “that until now, the market for high accuracy positioning systems has been held back by a number of factors.  Notably, these have included: poor area coverage, prohibitive purchase, fitting and operating costs, power consumption, and slow and inconsistent location reporting.  The Matrix system, combined with the latest devices now appearing on the market provide consistent and high accuracy positioning with high speed reporting at low cost, and as such are increasingly deemed by management teams as an essential and viable element of asset management and risk reduction”.

One of the first complete solutions to use the Matrix system is that based around the “Boomerang Box”, a robustly constructed device, combining low installation cost and a two year battery life. This is one of the first developed devices beginning to appear which address a wide range of potential applications.  The use for such systems is considered enormous, extending to moveable assets which include amongst others, 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 £1bn*.  Cartwright is a customer of Retreve a leading solution provider of telematic systems.

CPS’s Chief Executive, Chris Wade said: “Matrix provides a natural fit with HD Positions’ ambition and Orange’s vision of supporting new services for UK enterprises. This is unique offering to the UK market – a simple product that people can carry, or bolt into vehicles or containers or even just put in the drivers seat and yet delivers consistent, reliable, repeatable high accuracy where people want it – in busy city centres, indoors and inside valuable cargoes.” ends

About HD Positions

HD Positions markets and supplies the Matrix high accuracy location technology to Location Based Service (LBS) service providers. The company has extensive experience in providing the interfaces, mapping overlays and other applications relating to the Matrix positioning system.  HD Positions can also facilitate tailored billing and cash payment collection services to provide a complete turnkey solution for organisations taking the Matrix feed. HD Positions was formed to supply “ready to go high accuracy location based solutions” in response the increasing demand from the market for such systems.  The company is owned and operated by Stream Communications and New Forrest Communications, which have extensive experience and knowledge of the fast growing telematic and Machine to Machine (M2M) sectors.