For Immediate Release

 

Atlanta, Georgia - December 12, 2003

Discrete Wireless announces commercial launch date for their 5th Version of the MARCUS Fleet Management Application – January 26, 2004

Discrete Wireless is pleased to announce the release date for the next generation MARCUS® Fleet Management Application.  This application update is the 5th application release of Discrete Wireless’s Web-hosted vehicle and fleet tracking application.  “Version 5” is the result of over three years technical experience in hosted wireless application development.  Discrete believes that this application upgrade, which has been much anticipated, will give its customers the most comprehensive hosted fleet management application in the industry. 

Discrete Wireless’s “backend” architecture has been completely redesigned for Version 5.  This design performs fully redundant auto processing of all application components independently, and allows for scalability, rapid enhancements, and improved security.  This new network topology design will allow Discrete Wireless to provide increased application performance and availability to our customers, while increasing functionality with improved mapping, reporting, and routing.  Although the entire application is being upgraded, the core functionality and ease of use will remain similar.

The current Discrete Wireless, MARCUS® Fleet Management Web application, will be completely upgraded with the Version 5 hosted web application.  Initially, the end –user will have the option of utilizing either the old application and/or the “new” Version 5 Web Application for a period of approximately 1 month (January 26 – February 28, 2004). After that period, all users will be fully migrated to the next generation application.

The substantive feature changes that will be included with the new graphical user interface (GUI) are detailed below:

  • New Reports
    • Miles driven by State
    • Vehicle Maintenance
    • Alert Report
    • Sensor Report
  • User Defined Reports
    • Existing Reports (Start Stop, Detailed Activity, Fleet Summary, etc.) have the capability for the End User to define report variables in order to generate customized reports
    • End User can have reports generated and emailed to the account user
  • New Alerts
    • Maintenance
    • No Movement
    • Sensor
    • Mobile Tampering/Antenna Fault
    • Defined Distance from Defined Location
    • Location (User-Defined Radius)
  • Mapping Features
    • Updated, more Accurate Street Data ( provider - Geographic Data Technology, Inc. –GDT)
    • New Map Visual
    • User Defined Vehicle Icons
  • Online Routing – Textual directions and visual mapping
    • Point to Point
    • Point to Multi-point
    • Email driving instructions
  • Hierarchical access to application controls
    • Access by fleet
    • Access by feature controls
    • Access by defined Managerial level

 About Discrete Wireless

Discrete Wireless, Inc. was incorporated in May, 2000, and is an Internet-based Wireless Application Service Provider ("WASP") that is in the business of developing and providing vertical wireless applications and services that utilize existing wireless infrastructure and the Internet to deliver solutions to commercial customers and consumers. Discrete Wireless is a Value-Added Reseller of Cingular Wireless, LLC.

 MARCUS® allows customers to use the encrypted, password protected website to track the movement of their vehicles, employees, and goods and services.  As a result, the Company believes its Service provides significant value to its customers by reducing their costs of doing business and increasing the productivity of their mobile resources.    Discrete Wireless customers have seen dramatic increases in driver productivity, decreases in overtime, reduced excessive speeding and increased vehicle safety.

 The MARCUS® Fleet Management application and hardware is sold and marketed nationwide through retail, dealer and OEM channels and the Internet, capturing the consumer, small office/home office and corporate markets. To date, more than 1000 companies have benefited from MARCUS®.  Discrete Wireless can be found on the Web at www.discretewireless.com.