Tuesday January 30, 6:30 am Eastern Time
Press Release
American Millennium Corporation Announces Production Release of Second Phase of General Motors Corporation's GMSkyNet System
GOLDEN, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2001--American Millennium Corporation, Inc. (OTCBB:AMCI - news), announced today the production release of the second phase of the GMSkyNet® vehicle tracking and data communication system developed for General Motors Corporation (NYSE:GM - news).
AMCI VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer Bruce R. Bacon said: ``The General Motors Truck Group (GMTG) utilizes AMCI's technology for tracking and data communications with their test vehicles. With a GMSkyNet® system installed in the vehicle, from the desktop and using only a web browser GMTG's staff can see where the vehicle is presently located on a street-level map, view engine start and stop events, and communicate directly with the vehicle's onboard data network. Affordable worldwide wireless tracking and communication with the electronic modules in the vehicle is a revolutionary change in vehicle management.''
``This release incorporates significant hardware and web-based back end enhancements to the GMSkyNet system. We integrated a completely new vehicle data bus interface module and added a considerable amount of functionality to our in-vehicle software. The back end was upgraded to include a data logger interface and a number of cosmetic, functional, and navigational changes,'' Bacon noted.
About the Company: AMCI is a provider of wireless and wire-line solutions for tracking and monitoring of mobile and fixed assets utilizing Low-Earth-Orbit Satellites (LEOs), Geo-Stationary Satellites (GEOs), and terrestrial wireless and wireline technologies. AMCI is a licensed value-added reseller for Vistar Datacom. AMCI has installed satellite communication systems in the field for tracking, monitoring, and reporting data on oil wells, natural gas compressors, rail cars, and trucks. AMCI is currently providing satellite-based services to General Motors, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Chevron, Signa Engineering, The Hanover Company, Compressor Systems, Inc. (CSI,) Cabot Oil & Gas, Cross Timbers Oil & Gas, among others. In addition to hardware sales, AMCI generates monthly revenues from airtime sales. AMCI is an applications service provider (ASP), providing data access, tracking, and analysis packages for customers via the Internet. AMCI continues to actively consider additional acquisitions or business combinations that would compliment the Company's core business (www.amc-wireless.com). |
