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Consolidated
Fastfrate Enters Full Implementation Phase with BSM's SentinelFM
Vehicle Tracking Solution
Woodbridge,
Ontario CANADA, July 05, 2006
BSM
Technologies Inc. (GPS - TSX Venture), (http://www.bsmtechnologies.com)
a leading provider of secure vehicle and trailer fleet management,
high security vehicle tracking and surveillance solutions, today
announced that Consolidated Fastfrate, which had previously been
identified in a January 2006 press release as a "major Toronto
GTA-based national transportation company", has now committed
to the Canada-wide implementation of BSM's "SentinelFM"
vehicle tracking and locating application. This includes divisions
in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and Montreal. This will translate
into 300 plus installations within the Consolidated Fastfrate Group.
Based on a successful pilot project in January and the subsequent implementation
of an initial 53 "SentinelFM" units in the GTA, there
was an immediate realization of benefits to Fastfrate derived from
BSM's "SentinelFM" solution. Consolidated Fastfrate is now
moving ahead with Vancouver and other major cities during the
balance of 2006 for a fleet of over 300 tractor units. Fastfrate has
developed their own dispatch system. Data is captured through BSM's
"B2B XML SOAP" interface for immediate position updates
and other relevant data from their fleet.
"With the BSM integration tools provided during the development
and pilot phase, the implementation of BSM's "SentinelFM"
tracking on Fastfrate's entire GTA fleet, Fastfrate realized the
many ROI benefits and efficiencies for improving customer service
through knowledge and responsiveness and detailed reporting to aid
in fuel savings for the transportation company. As a Web-based ASP
solution, benefits include fuel savings, no infrastructure costs,
accuracy, speed of data retrieval and robust reporting over the
web," said Michael Bookbinder, Director Sales for Telus at BSM
Wireless.
Bookbinder, continued, "The Toronto region-Head Office had
initially implemented BSM'S "SentinelFM" units
on their entire Toronto pickup and delivery fleet that included
onboard and portable units for broker vehicles. Fastfrate is now
able to meet the Company's mission statement by providing fast,
efficient and innovative customer service with performance level
improvements across Canada."
"BSM Wireless provided Fastfrate with all of the integration
tools necessary to integrate with our newly developed dispatch
system. Their support was pivotal to ensure that the
integration process went smoothly and the outcome was successful.
Fastfrate has made a significant investment in building the dispatch
system and it was very important to us to select the right
technology partner in order to move forward with our Canada-wide
implementation. We are highly confident with our decision to go with
BSM", said Ahmet Taran, Director of IT at Consolidated
Fastfrate.
"Fastfrate is very pleased with the performance of the BSM
"SentinelFM" solution and we are now realizing the many
benefits previously identified by BSM Wireless team. The efficiency,
performance, speed and accuracy of the BSM AVL (Automatic Vehicle
Security and Tracking) solution over the Telus Mobility network has
enabled Fastfrate to achieve its goals and objectives from our AVL
initiative. BSM was able to achieve all of the performance criteria
for our operations and integration as had been established for the
implementation, all of which improves our ROI," said Leonard
Wyss, VP and CFO of Fastfrate.
"BSM offered and listened to what Fastfrate required which led
to BSM being an instrumental partner in the development and
implementation of the integrated dispatch system. Consolidated
Fastfrate has now committed to implement BSM's "SentinelFM"
solution across Canada with over 300 units on their roadmap. HTS
Communications would like to thank everyone at BSM for creating a
credible and flexible working relationship between the Fastfrate and
BSM teams to meet the needs of our client," stated Jay Cooke of
HTS Communications. HTS Communications is a full service authorized
dealer for Telus Mobility specializing in Major Accounts throughout
Canada.
About Consolidated Fastfrate
Fastfrate is a privately-owned Canadian company with over 1600
full-time employees that transport in excess of 2 billion pounds of
LTL freight each year in different major centres of Canada.
Individual transportation needs drive Fastfrate to customize methods
of moving customer's products effectively and efficiently. These
challenges mean that our employees are the best resource for
innovative ideas. The Fastfrate vision is to provide customers with
complete shipment solutions. It's Fastfrate's job to harness the
synergy created by our customers, our employees and our vision so we
can obtain a leadership position in the North American
transportation industry."
About BSM Technologies (GPS:TSX-V) (http://www.bsmtechnologies.com)
BSM Technologies designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive
line of AVSL (Automatic Vehicle Security and Tracking) solutions for
Fleet Management, Law Enforcement, and Consumer Vehicle Protection,
through its subsidiary BSM Wireless. The BSM line of products range
from Fleet Management and Consumer Vehicle Protection offerings to
the full featured ''Stinger'' product featured in news media
worldwide as the key technology behind the Bait and Covert
application used by hundreds of Law Enforcement agencies to deter
vehicular, trailer and heavy equipment theft.
Superior functionality, seamless switching between 2 separate
footprints, enhanced reliability, advanced security features, and
excellent value characterize BSM products. By incorporating advanced
wireless locating and mapping technology, and IP-based
communications protocols, the BSM line of products provides
sophisticated real-time monitoring and control of commercial and
personal vehicle assets to meet the demanding needs and stringent
requirements of today's mobile environments. BSM's unique end-to-end
solutions, features sophisticated wireless hardware, firmware and
software all developed by and proprietary to BSM. The BSM product
line can be easily adapted and customized to match any customer user
requirement while BSM's in-house support infrastructure assures that
all clients receive the premium AVSL solution in the industry to
meet their needs.
Company Contact
Lindsay Malcolm
Investor Relations
1-877-713-7465 (toll-free)
lmalcolm@bsmwireless.com
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responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory
authority has approved or disapproved the information contained
herein. This News Release may include certain "forward-looking
statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual
results may differ materially from results indicated in any
forward-looking statements. The company cautions that, among other
things, in view of the rapid changes in communications markets and
technologies, and other risks including the cost and market
acceptance of the company's new products, the level of individual
customer procurements and competitive product offerings and pricing,
and general economic circumstances, the company's business prospects
may be materially different from forward-looking statements made by
the company
BSM Technologies Inc.
5875 Hwy 7,
Suite 200,
Woodbridge,Ontario
Tel: 905.265-1200
Fax: 905.265-1288
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