Axonn Creates World’s Smallest Industrial Use Satellite Transmitter

(New Orleans, LA) April 18, 2005: Axonn has size-reduced its satellite transmitter to a mere 19 square centimeters New Orleans based Axonn L.L.C. supplies its battery powered GPS telemetry device, the AXTracker, to customers around the world. AXTrackers report the location and status of mobile assets in the deserts of the Middle East and keep tabs on trucks on the motorways of Europe and highways of North America. AXTracker enables fleet management and theft recovery; the device has even been instrumental in breaking up a major theft ring in California, and now, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the versatile yet robust AXTracker has found a role in disaster relief in Axonn’s own back yard; New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

“The highly integrated transmitter enables data collection from remote sites globally. Operating over the Globalstar LEO simplex network at low power, this represents the fundamentally lowest cost method for collecting data over any satellite network” stated Gary Naden, Axonn Vice-President. “This is the beginning of global tracking and monitoring devices that are the relative size of a deck of cards including antenna, battery and custom circuitry. Nobody else has a transmitter at this size, capability and price-point”.

Prototypes are shipping today, and Axonn is currently taking bulk orders for volume deliveries in July. The STX2 is 40% of the size of the predecessor transmitter that is currently operating in a variety of products such as the AXTracker asset management device. Operating at 3.3V and surface mount, the new transmitter removes much of the cost of integration by removing all cabling and connectors in the finished product. Axonn designs, manufactures and sells the transmitters through direct sales out of its New Orleans, LA office.

“We are pleased to offer this cost-effective satellite telemetry product at a fraction of any other satellite communications device,” stated Bob Olsavsky, Axonn General Manager. “Our single unit quantity prices start below the volume price-points of our closest competitor”.

Axonn will incorporate the new transmitter into its successful AXTracker product starting in the third quarter of 2005. The new transmitter offers a reduction in power, size and complexity to manufacture.

About Axonn
Axonn creates wireless data acquisition and monitoring products and solutions. Axonn's proprietary radio telemetry devices offer high performance operation at the lowest industry price points.

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