Road Safety Selects World Wireless Radios for SafeForce Driving System

Autoparts Report, April 25, 2000

World Wireless Communications Inc., a developer of Internet and wireless communications technologies, has been selected to supply Road Safety International Inc. with 900 SS Hopper for use in its SafeForce vehicle monitoring systems.

The company reports that it has received a purchase order from Road Safety International for five hundred 900 SS Hopper spread spectrum radios.

The 900 SS Hoppers will be used to transmit data collected by the Road Safety on-board computer system to a fleet manager base station. The data collected from the vehicles will be used to improve fleet safety, reduce maintenance costs, and train drivers.

The 900 SS Hopper, a frequency hopping spread spectrum transceiver, makes possible transmission of sensor data across 25 miles, line of site, with a high tolerance to environmental conditions and frequency interference.

Road Safety on-board computer systems are installed in a range of vehicles and equipment including heavy-duty trucks, ambulances, fire and emergency response vehicles, police cars, airport crash rescue equipment, and metro transit buses.

These systems are used by U.S. and Canadian government agencies, utility companies, automobile manufacturers' test cars throughout the United States, school buses, and fleet vehicles.