November 8, 2001
WebTech Wireless, a global wireless vehicle services provider and Airbiquity, a wireless technology company specializing in the integration of voice and data services, are partnering to develop integrated voice/data services to be delivered by WebTech's Quadrant System, an end-to-end vehicle location and telematics services system and the WebTech Locator, a vehicle-based wireless services gateway.
This suite of integrated voice and data services is expected to include emergency roadside assistance, navigation, and automated crash notification for call centers and fleets.
"Partnering with Airbiquity will enable us to enhance our wireless vehicle services suite with voice capabilities and critical safety services, such as emergency roadside assistance," said Anwar Sukkarie, president and CEO of WebTech Wireless. "Our partnership will bring critical services to call centers serving motorists, by capitalizing on existing analog networks to enhance digital coverage."
"WebTech Wireless' strength in fleet location and telematics services combined with Airbiquity's aqLink product line, will allow us to develop and support a variety of global mobile data applications," said Dan Allen, president and CEO of Airbiquity. "This partnership will enable WebTech Wireless to offer integrated voice and data services, which we believe will be critical to the growing automated vehicle location market, as well as the rapidly growing telematics arena." The Strategis Group has projected the private and for-hire AVL market to expand to over $1 billion in annual revenue by 2004.
WebTech provides network operators, corporations and fleets with its Quadrant Vehicle Services System, an end-to-end platform combining the technologies of GPS, telematics, wireless devices, networks and the Internet to deliver a variety of wireless services in mission critical mobile workforce areas (safety/security, communications, Internet and location). The WebTech suite of wireless vehicle services includes GPS fleet tracking, messaging, telematics (door lock/unlock, engine immobilizer, odometer readings), anti-theft, Internet access, enterprise connectivity, navigation and digital forms. The Quadrant System includes a Network Operations Center that creates, controls and manages the services delivered through personal digital assistants (e.g. Palm, iPAQ) and the WebTech Locator device.
Airbiquity's aq-enabled product line provides its patented aqLink software to OEMs such as Texas Instruments and Agere Systems Digital Signal Processors to enable the delivery of data over any analog wireless network (CDMA, TDMA, GSM, iDEN(r) and AMPS) during a voice conversation. For wireless vehicle services, Airbiquity enables data such as location, operating status or emergency notifications to be delivered via an analog or digital network. Supporting a variety of call centers including RESPONSE Services Center and Aradiant (formerly The National Dispatch Center), Airbiquity's aqServer is highly scalable and supports calls from multiple air interfaces and wireless devices to provide integrated voice and data services.
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