@Road Launches Turnkey Solution Targeted at Mobile Workforces; New @Road RoadREPORT Enables Small Businesses to Increase Productivity and Efficiency at an Affordable Price.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers @Road(SM) (Nasdaq:ARDI ARDI Association Rwandaise pour la Promotion du Développement Intégré (French) ARDI Accounts Receivable Dollar Inventory ARDI Action Rwandaise pour le Developpement Integre ARDI Annually Renewable Disability Income ), a leading provider of location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management (MRM MRM Marketing Resource Management MRM Mobile Resource Management MRM Metabolic Response Modifiers MRM Multiple Reaction Monitoring (mass spectrometry) MRM Mormonism Research Ministry MRM Mechanically Recovered Meat ), today announced the availability of its RoadREPORT(SM) service application. RoadREPORT is a new Internet-based solution designed to provide detailed historical workforce activity information to businesses at an affordable price. With the RoadREPORT features, managers can easily monitor mobile workforce performance, access location information, manage employee accountability and provide detailed information to their customers. "Organizations with mobile workforces of all sizes need cost-effective tools to manage the productivity of their field operations," said Krish Panu, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of @Road. "RoadREPORT demonstrates the @Road commitment to enabling companies with mobile resources to benefit from location-based information services See Information Systems. ." The RoadREPORT service application is available on CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data) A low-speed, digital, wireless data network that is an enhancement to an existing analog cellular network. Based on IBM's CelluPlan II, CDPD provides a packet overlay onto the AMPS network and moves data at 19. and iDEN-based wireless networks in most metropolitan cities nationwide. The easily deployed solution requires no investment in information technology systems or complex software. RoadREPORT includes the following features and advantages: -- Detailed reports providing location, direction, speed, stops and activity information for the entire mobile workforce, a segment or individual workers. -- Twenty-four-hour-a-day asset monitoring using the Global Positioning System (GPS) -- including occasions when resources are out of wireless coverage areas. -- Report delivery to one or more designated managers. -- Multiple methods of information delivery -- reports are available via email or can be directed to an @Road FTP site for convenient customer access. Pricing for RoadREPORT, including airtime air·time n. 1. The time during which a radio or television station is broadcasting. Also called airspace. 2. The time at which a radio or television program is broadcast. , is approximately $36 per month per subscriber and $490-$879 per iLM(R) per subscriber. This new service leverages the existing @Road platform and service infrastructure. For more information on this new solution and other @Road solutions and services, please call @Road at 1-877-4AtRoad or visit the Web site at www.atroad.com. About @Road Based in Fremont, @Road is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. that provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management. Its patented LocationSmart(SM) technology platform combines wireless, positioning and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. technologies with the Internet into a fully integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. that supports the delivery of location-enhanced wireless Internet services for businesses and mobile professionals. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of @Road to successfully market and sell RoadREPORT, the market acceptance of the RoadREPORT services offered by @Road, the infancy of the wireless data industry where there is no established market for @Road products and services, dependence of @Road on wireless networks, network infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by others, and general economic and political conditions. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. dated March 28, 2002 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. iLM is a registered trademark of At Road, Inc. @Road, the @Road logo, RoadREPORT and LocationSmart are trademarks and/or service marks of At Road, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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