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MDI, Inc. Completes Purchase of Corporate Headquarters Building in San Antonio, Texas.


Company Announces Plans to Provide Central Station Security and Video Monitoring Services Video Monitoring Services (VMS) [1] is a media monitoring company that provides news and advertisements monitoring solutions. The company is headquartered in New York with more than 18 offices in the United States.  to LearnSafe[TM] Certified Schools and other Commercial Facilities

SAN ANTONIO San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837.  -- MDI (1) (Multiple Document Interface) A Windows function that allows an application to display and lets the user work with more than one document at the same time. , Inc. (Nasdaq:MDII MDII Machine Detected Interoffice Irregularity ), the leading provider of total school safety and security management solutions for the educational industry, today announced that it has completed the purchase of its headquarters and operational facilities at 10226 San Pedro Avenue in San Antonio for 3,306,122 shares of company stock that have already been registered with the SEC. The property is valued at approximately $9.5 million and is subject to a $5.5 million loan secured only by the property, with there being no personal liability to the maker of the note.

The property is located on two acres of land adjacent to the San Antonio Airport at the crossroads of Highway U.S. 281 and Interstate 410 in the heart of San Antonio. Total office space is approximately 50,000 square feet. The property consists of a multi-story, 32,000 square foot building, where MDI currently occupies 16,000 feet for its office, warehouse and engineering functions. This space was completely renovated in January 2007. The additional structure on the property is an 18,000 square foot, stand-alone, Georgian-style two-story office building, which was also remodeled in January 2007. This space is currently leased.

MDI will begin to remodel re·mod·el  
tr.v. re·mod·eled also re·mod·elled, re·mod·el·ing also re·mod·el·ling, re·mod·els also re·mod·els
To make over in structure or style; reconstruct.
 an additional 16,000 square feet on the first floor of the building almost immediately using funds reserved for that purpose under the loan. A principal new use of the additional space will be to house equipment and personnel to be utilized in the Company's newly formed Central Station Alarm and Video Monitoring business. This business will be designed to provide real-time, 24x7x365 security monitoring services to school districts as part of the LearnSafe[TM] Initiative[TM], as well as to other commercial and government clients. MDI will add these security monitoring services to its contract with The Cooperative Purchasing Network (TCPN TCPN Time Constraint Petri Net ), which is one of the largest buying schedules for public and private schools, municipalities, county and state governments in the nation; currently covering over 42 states.

The advanced capabilities of MDI's SAFEnet[R] access control and alarm management software, will allow MDI to monitor and instantly respond to security events on school campuses, and commercial and government installations and facilities remotely through the newly designed state-of-the-art data transmission facility. Events will be detected and analyzed as they occur and appropriate responses calculated by professional security staff using the SAFEnet[R] System. MDI's VIEWpoint[TM] surveillance management and VerifEYE[TM] Intelligent Video Analytics software will be utilized to monitor video surveillance cameras for anomalies and suspicious events. Appropriate responses will be dispatched in real-time to district, local and nationwide authorities to intervene in emergency situations.

The Company's SAFEnet[R] software, as part of the ONE Unified Technology[TM] platform provides the centralized, open infrastructure solution required to adequately secure school campuses and commercial facilities from a single point of command and control. This unified security dashboard will allow MDI to manage the anticipated overwhelming volume of security events occurring at our school campuses by consistently increasing visibility and reducing incident response time, thereby protecting students, faculty other administrative personnel in real-time with complete situational awareness Situation awareness or situational awareness [1] (SA) is the mental representation and understanding of objects, events, people, system states, interactions, environmental conditions, and other situation-specific factors affecting human performance in . The MDI solution is also designed to protect schools after-hours against events such as graffiti, trespassing, vandalism, damage to school facilities and theft of assets.

The scalability of the SAFEnet platform allows unparalleled ability to expand to meet the demand in times of crisis. MDI's SAFEnet[R] software has received certifications from Underwriters Laboratories Underwriters Laboratories Inc. is a U.S. not-for-profit, privately owned and operated product safety testing and certification organization. Based in Northbrook, Illinois, UL develops standards and test procedures for products, materials, components, assemblies, tools and  (UL) for (i) UL-1076 (proprietary burglar alarm units and intrusion detection systems); (ii) UL-294 (access control system units), (iii) UL-1981 (central-station automation systems) as well as certification for the Company's proprietary advanced encryption algorithm A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret code known as "ciphertext." Each algorithm uses a string of bits known as a "key" to perform the calculations. The larger the key (the more bits), the greater the number of potential patterns can be created, thus making  (under UL 1076) with the National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology, governmental agency within the U.S. Dept. of Commerce with the mission of "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards" in the national interest.  (NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. ). The proprietary encryption algorithms assure that security threat reports are received and responses sent without the possibility of interception or alteration by terrorist agents.

For more information on becoming a LearnSafe Certified[TM] School District, or purchasing MDI solutions via the TCPN contract, please call 866-SAFE-024, email info@learnsafe.org or visit the LearnSafe website at www.learnsafe.org.

About MDI, Inc.

MDI (NASDAQ: MDII) manufactures security technology solutions designed to protect people, facilities and assets. These solutions are unified by ONE Technology. ONE Technology unifies security point products, systems and subsystems into a common management platform. Far beyond the Integrated Security Management software promoted by industry competitors, ONE delivers an open architecture environment that adapts each individual application and device into its platform - promoting global collaboration as ONE system. MDI currently holds two U.S. Patents (nos. 6,580,951 and 6,892,246) in the field of distributed intelligence The placing of processing capability in terminals and other peripheral devices. Intelligent terminals handle screen layouts, data entry validation and other pre-processing steps. Intelligence placed into disk drives and other peripherals relieves the central computer from routine tasks.  for security architecture. The MDI product family currently protects over 8 million alarm points across the globe for many of the world's most recognized organizations including Microsoft, MBNA MBNA Monument Builders of North America
MBNA Mercedes-Benz North America
MBNA Maryland Bank, National Association
MBNA Maryland Bank North America
MBNA Mount Baker Nurses Association (Bellingham, Washington) 
 Worldwide, John Deere, Pepsi, FBI, TSA TSA

See tax-sheltered annuity (TSA).
, Fidelity Investments Fidelity Investments is a group of privately held companies in the financial services industry. It is made up by two independent but closely cooperating companies, Fidelity Management and Research Corporation (FMR Co. , Bureau of Engraving & Printing, American Express, Department of Defense, IRS An abbreviation for the Internal Revenue Service, a federal agency charged with the responsibility of administering and enforcing internal revenue laws. , Disney, Smithsonian Institution, San Diego Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts.  and MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology  to name a few. The company has received numerous industry awards for their security technology including Frost & Sullivan's Security System Technology Leadership Award and the Security Industry Association's Best Integrated Product Award for 2006. For more information on the company, its LearnSafe[TM] school safety and security initiative or its diversified line of security products and professional services, please visit www.mdisecure.com.

Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements

Except for historical information and discussions contained herein, certain statements included in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" 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. All statements included in this document, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that management expects, believes or anticipates will or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. These statements represent our reasonable judgment on the future based on various factors and using numerous assumptions and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results and financial position to differ materially from those contemplated by the statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. They use words such as "anticipate," "estimate," "project," "forecast," "plan," "may," "will," "should," "expect" and other words of similar meaning. Investors should not rely on forward-looking statements because they are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectation. Additional information concerning risk factors is contained from time to time in the Company's SEC filings. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update the information contained in this release.

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