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Microcap & Penny Stocks : ZSON - Sonic Systems 'hears' -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rory McLeod who wrote (2)	8/26/1999 9:13:00 AM
From: Micropicker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 38

No competition. There is no competition for the audio detection side of their business. Once the detection is made, the reaction side may have some competition. For example, ZSON has the only system to detect sirens, but once detected, it pre-empts the signal controller. There is competition in signal controlling. But you have to equip all the ambulance, fire equipment, and police cars with a transmitter for the other systems to work. There is no competition on the in-vehicle detection system, or for anything else that detects and analyzes sounds. The only other company that I know of which is heavily into sound is NCTI. There intent is to analyze sound for the purpose of purifying it and cancelling out background noise. The company actually is doing OK, it just has a tremendous dilution problem, with 175 million shares issued. Even so, the market cap for NCTI reached 75 million earlier this year, but has since dipped. I don't see NCTI as competition. Certainly the military side has a number of applications. Given that you are in a noisy vehicle yourself, your hearing is worthless. Radar can serve as your eyes, but the enemy can tactically negate that. Line of site infrared works, but only if the sensors can see the object. Would there be an advantage to "hearing" an enemy tank column or a helicopter hiding behind the next hill? You bet! I doubt there is much use in the Navy. ZSON's product is probably just a commercial version of the sound detection systems used in submarines today. Those are already so complex that ZSON cannot compete with them. The submarine systems run on extremely expensive computers, but the Navy isn't interested in achieving almost as good peformance for a fraction of the cost. It needs the best stuff available.