Product category:
Wireless Communications
News Release from: Hemisphere GPS
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 January 2003
Telematics solution suits after-market
alarms
CSI Wireless is to become the exclusive telematics hardware supplier to Directed Electronics, the world's largest after-market vehicle security and remote-start manufacturer.
CSI Wireless is to become the exclusive telematics hardware supplier to Directed Electronics, the world's largest after-market vehicle security and remote-start manufacturer, with sales in more than 46 countries CSI will provide a unique telematics product that serves as the enabling technology for Directed's new Directrack stolen vehicle tracking system
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Directrack will be sold under four of Directed's biggest-selling brands - Viper, Python, Clifford and Automate - through the company's network of more than 5000 dealers.
Directed's largest retail dealers include chains such as Best Buy and Circuit City in the USA, and Future Shop and Best Buy in Canada.
"Thanks to our expertise in GPS location determination, asset tracking and wireless communications, CSI Wireless is quickly becoming the supplier of choice for other manufacturers and systems integrators in the automotive security and location-based services industries", said Stephen Verhoeff, CSI Wireless' President and CEO.
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"We have further solidified our competitive market position through this supply agreement with Directed Electronics", Verhoeff added.
"It will put our products in front of security and automotive consumers across North America, and is an enormous opportunity for CSI.
We expect it to be a major revenue generator for us for years to come".
Directrack's telematics hardware, based on CSI Wireless' proven Asset- Link platform, combines Asset-Link's wireless and GPS capabilities with the most popular features of Directed's alarm systems.
Directrack works stand-alone as a stolen vehicle tracking device, or combines voice messaging, text messaging and/or Internet connections to enable customers to utilize the ultimate range in two-way communication, monitoring and control of their vehicles across the broadest coverage available in the USA and Canada.
Directrack overcomes the limitation of competing wireless tracking systems that become active only when the owner reports the vehicle is missing, which can be hours, days or even weeks after a theft occurs.
Directrack becomes active - and sends an alert to the consumer - as soon as the vehicle is moved without authorisation.
This greatly improves the potential for the vehicle's quick recovery.
Industry statistics show vehicles recovered within an hour after being stolen are 250% more likely than other stolen vehicles to have avoided damage.
Directrack can also be used to remotely disable a stolen vehicle - resulting in quicker apprehension by police, and greater safety to the public.
Commenting on his company's supplier alliance with CSI Wireless, Michael Malinowski, Directed's Telematics Products Manager, said: "Consumers know and trust Directed as the world's leading automotive security systems manufacturer.
They expect us, in offering them a solution for location-sensing and wireless communication, to rely on a leading telematics hardware developer.
That's CSI Wireless.
Having CSI's advanced telematics capability significantly enhances Directrack's effectiveness and the market".
"More than one million vehicles are stolen every year in the United States", Malinowski added.
"That amounts to one almost every 23 seconds.
Millions more are stolen in Canada and other parts of the world.
Directrack offers consumers an affordable and dependable method of combating vehicle thefts, while also providing a variety of other convenient and helpful security and safety services".
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