MIRAS removable GPS memory card available.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 1997--SPS Technologies Corp. of Fort Lauderdale, announced the addition of a new memory card that works with our remote control and tracking system called MIRAS.

The memory card looks like a PCMCIA card, but it is actually a two megabyte storage device. When the memory card is connected to the MIRAS unit, it records GPS and sensor data. The memory card can be easily removed, allowing you to download all the GPS and sensor data to the serial port of your PC via an attachment cable and power supply.

Once the data is downloaded, you can generate reports and run route animations. Reports such as vehicle idle time, excessive speed, or street detail route history, enable you to track the movements of your vehicles, minute by minute, mile by mile. You can even create your own map landmarks such as customer locations, and display miles traveled between landmarks and idle times at each stop, revealing unauthorized vehicle usage and route deviations.

Route animation lets you recreate the driver's route in an accelerated mode, drawing the route on street detail level maps for you to review and print. A future enhancement of the route animation feature will display sensor data such as cargo temperature, and changes of temperature during the route recreation.

The major benefit of this memory card is that it provides customers with an affordable method of generating vehicle usage reports, without incurring the monthly expense of using wireless communications to download the GPS data. So if real time tracking is not a major requirement, but keeping a close eye on your drivers and vehicle usage is, the memory card can provide you with the necessary data, storing up to four months of data for your review.

Of course, if real time tracking and monitoring is required, the GPS and sensor data can be transmitted to the PC monitoring station via a cellular phone or radio, available today, or CDPD, available first quarter of 1997.

So whether your fleet is large or small, the MIRAS memory card offers you a new way to capture the GPS data and better manage your fleet assets.

You don't need a memory card to remember our web site, WWW.MIRAS.COM, but you must remember to use the Internet. -0-

NOTE TO EDITORS: In the Internet/email address noted in this news release, there is an "at" symbol MIRAS and Shadow.net. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems.

CONTACT: SPS Technologies Inc.

Mark Nemcek, 800/320-1186

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