Internal Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 1 April 2008

Division

Highlights:

Critical Comms 2

Commercial Transport 3

Taxi Solutions 4

Public Safety 5

Welcome to the May 2008edition of the Sigtec newsletter. For the first time we now include content and contributions from all four operating divisions namely; Public Transport, Commercial Transport, Taxi Solutions and Critical Communications. Like you, I look forward to reading of our collective triumphs as we move forward into 2008.

Message from the Managing Director

Marketing Marketing is slowly beginning to flow across the company. Our first banner was produced by the Critical Communications division in Brisbane for the APCO trade show. Since then we have done a corporate banner and two Taxi banners and have just completed a Commercial Transport banner. A Banner for Public Transport is under development. We are now working on brochures for the Divisions and we hope to launch our corporate website in the near future.

Over the next few years, Sigtec will deliver a range of new programs and services to the domestic and global market place. The recent announcement of Sigtec becoming the first certified IAP Service Provider in Australia is the first tangible example of how we intend to change the way we deliver our services.

Sigtec caps have been produced and distributed to our Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Brisbane offices. We hope you are all wearing them and getting the name out there.

The UK boys have been given a Sigtec cap by John Thompson and Theo Papacharalambous who were traveling in the UK during April and they have very kindly sent through a picture for us…

This will require us to focus more on improvements to our systems and infrastructure, to support our status as a premier ITS solutions and managed service company.

John Thompson Managing Director

John Dundas & Peter Beatty

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The Critical Communications Division successfully launched the new Sigtec brand in to the Public Safety market as a Gold Sponsor of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Annual Australia-New Zealand Conference at the Gold Coast on 18-20th February. See below photo and www.apcoaust.com.au The new branding and image was very well received by existing customers and new prospects.

The local venue enabled the Division to visit the conference and witness first hand how we are positioned within h

Critical Communications Division

marketplace and gain an understanding of competitor solutions. The Critical Communications Division has further strengthened its position in the emerging School Zone Safety market having been awarded a sole supply contract for the next stage of the NSW School Zone Alerting System. This is a great success for the division with approximately $2M in revenue expected this calendar year and placing us in a great position to succeed in the pending open tender worth $10+ later this year.

Brett Abraham presented to the Australian Rail Association Rail Level Crossing Safety Workshop on 25th February. The relationship with Telstra Managed Services continues to grow and offer large opportunities for the Division including VLine, RailCorp, RACV, NRMA and QLD Police. The Division is intensely focused on delivery of three major current projects: • ARTC Freight Train

Communications; • NSW School Zone

Alerting System; and • Ambulance New

Zealand

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Sigtec has been announced as the 1st IAP Service Provider, see our IAP website at www.roadaccess.com.au

Rohan has just signed up our first IAP customer – Rodney’s Transport Services in Wagga Wagga, NSW.

Michael Emanuel has transferred from Critical Communications to Commercial Transport sales.

Capital Transport has proceeded with $300,000 order to expand their mobility into NSW with 270 Intermec CN3’s units.

Commercial Transport Division

Commercial transport has a number of major opportunities in the pipe line: • NSW Railcorp looking

for a 1000 vehicle fleetmanagement system.

• Queensland State

Government Securitygoing to tender for a100 mobile computersand lone workerprotection units.

• BagTrans Transport

released a tender last month for 100 IAP devices and trailer tracking units

Coming up: International Trailer, Truck and Equipment Show Melbourne Showgrounds 8 – 10th May, 2008. www.trailertruckshow.com.au

• Tasmania buses released a tender this week for 600 IAP devices.

• TCA has asked Sigtec to participate in a trial of a Fatigue and Speed Management solution within the IAP Framework.

Rohan and Michael will be busy securing the above business and new IAP customers for Sigtec over the coming months.

In the meantime, the whole division is working towards having our first IAP customers installed and live by 30 May 2008.

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Last month, Melbourne received some much needed rain. In the same way the Taxi Division surged ahead with its best month for orders, exceeding $4 million.

Our customer Bluebird inIndonesia is commencinga major fleet upgrade toMercedes Benz vehicles.

To match its new premiumfleet we positioned a lowcost colour terminal withintegrated software taximeter too them and havesecured an order for 1000units to be delivered inAugust this year.

Taxi Solutions Division

2008 Australian Taxi Conference was in Canberra from 6 – 10 April 2008.

Taxicab, Limousine & Paratransit Association (TLPA) – Tampa, Florida October 2008

Taxi Conferences

Well done to Theo for his work in this area. The opportunity will grow to a further 2000 units over the next 2 years which is good business in anyone’s terms!

We also managed to secure an order from RSL Taxis in Sydney for 170 vehicles. This is particularly pleasing given RSL were a bureau member of Legion who as you will all remember has opted to leave us for MTData. This will provide us with our first local site for MDX products.

Adding to the good news,we were advised by theDubai office that the RTAhas provided a letter ofintent to purchase anadditional 760 MDX unitsand a substantial quantityof spares. David in Dubaiis to be congratulated onworking this order throughthe customer.

John Thompson has justreturned from visits to ourUK customers where wehave been negotiatingnew support andmaintenance agreements.

Sigtec at the Australian Taxi Conference…Waiting for the doors to open ??!!!!

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Public Transport Division

The Public Transport Division is currently fully occupied developing, testing or delivering customer projects such as Melbourne SmartBus Route 901, Auckland Busway and RAPID Lodz (Poland).

We have are also initiated an in-house porting project of our embedded code to support our new hardware, the RAPID Control Unit which has been jointly developed with NEC.

We have recently received an order from our NZ customer ARTA to implement SIRI (an EU standard for real-time passenger information) interface to the RAPID system and we are currently undergoing final negotiations for a server infrastructure upgrade which will include technology refresh as well as a new build and deployment environment.

We have also currently 15+ functional variations (most of them defined by us) that ARTA want us to quote on, ranging from minor functional enhancements to a completely new LCD based sign type.

An Order has been received for additional Driver Display Consoles (DDC's) to be fitted to the Northern Busway fleet along with a request for a quote to fit 900 buses in Auckland with DDC's.

We have also received several variations in Melbourne and are expecting further variations including an order of a new route (the Red Orbital). The Division has been short listed for a RTPI system for Sydney ferries and have been requested to provide RTT prior to the 28/5. (contract award is expected at the end of July 2008).

The requirements for this system is very close to Melbourne but do also include some very exciting additional components such as multimedia support and passenger counting systems. Our support teams are doing a great job (at times, during very difficult circumstances) by providing our customers with an integrated managed service. These teams have been under the hammer lately, as there have been significant functional enhancements introduced to systems that they maintain, which I am sure has caused the stress level of our SA's, Service Technicians and Regional Service Mangers to increase a little.

Finally, an install team is preparing to depart for Poland at the end of May to install RAPID in Lodz, Poland’s second largest city.

What Cities without RAPID face…

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The Brisbane office has been running a footy tipping competition for several years and it has grown and become refined over time. Tipping is open to all and we have to tip both the NRL and AFL and the combined scores are included for each weeks total. We use

Sigtec Melbourne office footy tipping competition is up and running for 2008. We have a greater participation this year with prizes galore. The weekly jackpot has already gone off twice this year with congratulations to Jez (Jesmond DeBono) and John Thompson for winning it in Round 1 and

Footy Tipping

Public Safety Department Bernd Jerzyna Public Transport Engineering Manager Zuben Sethna Test Engineer replacing Jason Liu who has moved back to NZ Rod Taylor, Software Engineer Plamen Georgiev RAPID System Administrator – Melbourne Commercial Transport Rohan Cook Software Engineer Tom Tran Customer Support Consultant Finance Percy Herath Melbourne Office

Sigtec Head Office Seaford

www.sigtec.com

www.roadaccess.com.au

(Second half of the Season):

1st $128.55 2nd $53.56 3rd $32.14 There are also weekly jackpots for tipping 8 winners and also for tipping 8 losers.

2 respectively.

Footy Tipping Prizes: Major Competition (Whole Season):

1st $321.38 2nd $128.55 3rd $96.41 4th $48.21 5th $32.14 6th $16.07 Minor Competition

the www.footytips.com.au website which makes it easy to put in your tips from anywhere in the world. $50 for the year is rewarded by a $10 per week winning and a pool that is split up at the end of the year. To spread the pleasure around we have a wide range of winnings.

Last place: 10% of remaining prize pool Second Last place: 5% of remaining prize pool 7th place: 10% 5th place: 5% 4th place: 10% 3rd place: 15% 2nd place: 20% 1st place: 25%

Welcome to new staff

We are trying to keep all staff informed as to what is happening within the company so please email me with anything you think the staff would like to know about for the next

edition in June 2008. Please email mgibson@sigtec.com.au