Satellites Bring Sensor Data from MachineTalkers for Viewing on the Qualcomm QTRACS GPS Tracking System

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. –(Business Wire)– April 3, 2006 — MachineTalker(R), Inc. (OTCBB:MTKN), developer of smart wireless security networks, announced today that the Company’s MachineTalker(R) units are now transmitting sensor data and security alerts that can be monitored on the QTRACS website of communications technology giant Qualcomm(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM).

So what’s the haps here? A big investment in telematics data to complement the already hugely successful Qualcomm Omnitracs GPS truck tracking system. The newsworthy part?Machinetalker has positioned itself as awirelss data company. To most people in the industry today, wireless means cellular. The cellular industry is investing millions to push their data services out to the general public. But what the cellular carriers have studiously ignored in their craze to release new models of phone three ot four times a year and their continual yammering about minutes and phone giveaways is the fact that our cellular infrastructure in the US absolutely sucks.

Here in Colorado Springs, the same areas that had poor to no coverage 10 years ago are still providing the same abysmal service. Data telemetry systems piggybacked on crap service will only give, well, crap service.

The Qualcomm QTracs satellite system is in computer/electronic terms an ancient service. It’s low bandwidth and sometimes takes as long as 15 minutes to pass data from one end of the network to the other. But it has one huge advantage over the entire rest of the huge “wireless” industry. It works. I am a big advocate of GPS tracking and telemetry to give you the information to run your business or government agency. But I am a bigger advocate of investing in things that work. Be sure you prove to your own satisfaction that something works before you by it.