City of Auburn Hills Selects Simtrol for AV Project at City Council IDS to Implement ONGOER for Multimedia Project.NORCROSS, Ga. -- Simtrol, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : SMRL SMRL Spock Mountain Research Labs ), a designer and developer of Windows-based control software solutions that enable enterprise-wide command, control, monitoring and diagnostics of otherwise incompatible devices including audiovisual ("AV"), security and other communication assets, today announced the City of Auburn Hills, Michigan Auburn Hills is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 19,837 at the 2000 census. The city was formed in 1983 from the now defunct Pontiac Township. Auburn Hills is home to the world headquarters of Chrysler, the Walter P. has selected its ONGOER(TM) control software as part of an integrated multimedia solution at their City Council chambers. Simtrol's partner, Integrated Digital Systems, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ("IDS"), is providing design, implementation and service support for the turnkey solution. The advanced Auburn Auburn (ô`bərn). 1 City (1990 pop. 33,830), Lee co., E Ala.; inc. 1839. The city's economy centers around Auburn Univ.; there is some manufacturing. 2 City (1990 pop. 24,309), seat of Androscoggin co. Hills Council solution provides a more efficient meeting environment by providing Council members an advanced digital media record/playback unit to broadcast council meetings over the local cable network. This benefits residents by allowing them to view the meeting content at a later time that is convenient for them. The solution controls and routes AV signals from a wide array of devices including pan/tilt cameras, a VCR/DVD, document camera, and VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions. input plates, all viewable by members with personal LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters, allowing a natural background color to show. flat screen monitors. ONGOER controls all functions from the control room or via a wireless touch panel. Bob Deuby, President of IDS stated: "The Auburn Hills City Council is the legislative and policy making body responsible for adopting ordinances and setting the direction of City policy. It is important they have a powerful, reliable multimedia control system solution in their City Council chambers to efficiently conduct business that benefits the residents of Auburn Hills." Mr. Deuby continued: "The City of Auburn Hills is an important IDS customer. Their vision is to provide outstanding levels of service to the residents of the community while being fiscally responsible in maintaining and improving the physical assets of the community. IDS used this vision in developing our solution for the City. The Simtrol solution allows IDS to create the control environment using standard, open hardware from the PC industry and we delivered an easy-to-use control system at a fraction of the cost of proprietary control systems." Rick Egan, Simtrol's Chief Executive Officer, stated: "We are excited that our first project with IDS is at the City of Auburn Hills. Their dynamic application requirements are perfectly suited for ONGOER's strengths - powerful, flexible software running on cost-effective open PC platforms. We believe the IDS/Simtrol multimedia solution can be marketed throughout the country to other municipalities seeking to more efficiently serve their residents and look forward to working with IDS on this effort." About IDS Integrated Digital Systems, LLC (IDS) is a multifaceted mul·ti·fac·et·ed adj. Having many facets or aspects. See Synonyms at versatile. Adj. 1. multifaceted - having many aspects; "a many-sided subject"; "a multifaceted undertaking"; "multifarious interests"; "the multifarious integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. headquartered in Redford, Michigan. The IDS management team combines 50 years of experience in traditional AV applications to provide unique solutions both inside and outside the traditional AV market. IDS is a master subcontractor One who takes a portion of a contract from the principal contractor or from another subcontractor. When an individual or a company is involved in a large-scale project, a contractor is often hired to see that the work is done. to SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. and has acted as their integration specialist since 2001. IDS' principals recently formed a cable infrastructure company to complement their integration capabilities and to provide its clientele an end-to-end performance guarantee. For more information, please contact Robert Deuby at 734-637-1387. About Simtrol Simtrol, Inc. is a designer and developer of Windows-based software solutions that enable the command, control, and monitoring of otherwise incompatible devices including audiovisual, security and other communication assets for corporate, educational, and government enterprises. The Company's device control product, ONGOER(TM) provides control for devices by enabling a PC to become a robust and reliable control platform that is easy to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. , easy to program, and easy to use. OnGuard, the Company's asset management product, provides remote, server-based proactive monitoring, management and diagnostics as it collects real-time information from ONGOER installations to provide instant status, control, notification, and reporting functions. For more information about Simtrol, please visit www.simtrol.com. Certain statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995, such as statements relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc financial results and plans for future business development activities, and are thus prospective. These statements appear in a number of places in this release and include all statements that are not statements of historical fact regarding intent, belief or current expectations of the Company, its directors or its officers with respect to, among other things: (i) the Company's financing plans; (ii) trends affecting the Company's financial condition or results of operations; (iii) the Company's growth strategy and operating strategy; (iv) the Company's new or future product offerings. The words "may," "would," "could," "will," "expect," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "intend," "plans," and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's ability to control. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Among the key risks, assumptions and factors that may affect operating results, performance and financial condition are liquidity and other capital resources issues, fluctuations in its quarterly results, competition and the other factors discussed in detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ONGOER is a trademark of Simtrol. All other brands, logos, products or company names are the copyrights and/or trademarks of their respective holders. |
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