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To: ~digs who wrote (4969)	6/11/2008 6:07:08 PM
From: ACAN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7944

[ALAN] Alanco/TSI PRISM Awarded $3.3 Million Washington, D.C. Jail Contract Tuesday June 10, 9:00 am ET World's Largest Installation of RFID People Tracking Technology SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alanco Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: ALAN - News), announced today that its Alanco/TSI PRISM subsidiary has been awarded a $3.3 million contract by the Washington, D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC), previously identified in the Company’s June 6, 2008, press release as a ‘large metropolitan jail,’ for installation of a TSI PRISM RFID inmate tracking system. The TSI PRISM system will be utilized to track and monitor over 2,000 inmates at the Washington, D.C. jail complex and to provide a state-of-the-art investigative tool and safety system for the DOC staff numbering in excess of 450 persons. The project is expected to be completed in the current year and will represent the largest installation of active RFID technology to track and monitor people anywhere in the world. The new tracking system combines Alanco’s TSI PRISM RFID system with Wi-Fi compatible RTLS technology from AeroScout, Inc Greg M. Oester, Alanco/TSI PRISM President, commented, “We look forward to working with the Washington, D.C. DOC in their efforts to improve jail safety and inmate accountability. The adoption of our RFID inmate tracking technology is accelerating in the corrections market, and particularly, in the metropolitan jail segment where we are actively pursuing major projects involving additional coverage in total of over 25,000 inmates. This new award also marks our attainment of a new record high project backlog in excess of $5.4 million.”