Sutron Books $470,000 in Worldwide Orders in September.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 2001

Sutron Corporation, a worldwide leader in design and manufacture of environmental monitoring and communication equipment, has received $470,000 in international orders for systems, equipment and software.

1. Thailand - $160,000 Sutron will be supplying equipment and

software to upgrade the flood management system at Bang Lang

Dam for the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand. The

system will monitor hydrometeorological observations from the

Bang Lang catchment and the lower Pattani River basin. Located

in the southern tip of Thailand, the radio-based system is

comprised of nine hydromet sites (four precipitation sites and

five precipitation/stream gage sites), three repeaters, and a

base station facility.

2. China - $125,000 and $50,000 As a continuation of Sutron's

partnership with Nanking Yangtze Corporation, the research

division of China's Ministry of Water Resources, a new

$125,000 contract for technical research and development has

been awarded to Sutron. The second order for about $50,000 is

from Nanking Automation Research Institute, the research

division of China's Ministry of Electrical Power.

3. Peru - $78,000 SENAMHI, the National Weather Service of Peru,

has given Sutron an order for $78,000 for additional equipment

and software.

4. England, Norway, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Germany, Mexico,

Switzerland, New Zealand and Singapore - $52,000 Additional

miscellaneous equipment and software orders from all over the

world were received during the last 30 days.

Sutron anticipates significant increases in international sales in the fourth quarter of 2001. Sutron is also a major supplier of real-time environmental remote monitoring and control systems for U.S. Federal Agencies, including the US Geological Survey, the National Ocean Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Army Corps of Engineers, and the National Weather Service.

For 26 years Sutron has designed and manufactured environmental monitoring and communication equipment that operates unattended in remote, inhospitable places, under the most extreme conditions on the planet.

With over 25,000 environmental monitoring stations presently in operation globally, Sutron is a major worldwide supplier of real-time data collection systems that include telemetry, sensors, and data management software.