The GlobalTrack modem reads its own position via GPS satellites, and next to its own position the modem is capable of reading additional data such as: readings levels from silos, temperature in containers and fuel levels of trucks.

The information is then sent to another satellite which sends it back to Earth. This ensures that assets can be monitored worldwide, thereby providing global coverage.

Subscribers can login, via the Internet ( www.globaltrack.com) and by using a secure username and password, can monitor their assets. Subscribers can also create 'guest'-users, and let them manage the assets, providing a reliable way to distribute up-to-date information across the globe. The 128-bit encrypted website utilises the best-of-breed mapping technology from ESRI and GIMS to ensure that subscribers can track, monitor and communicate with assets anywhere in the world, at any time of the day.

GlobalTrack has been used in various markets including:

* Refrigerated containers

Refrigerated containers are monitored worldwide on land and on the ocean. Direct information, for example on temperature and cooling status, improves planning efforts, and with the additional GlobalTrack radio-link (patent pending), containers can be 'seen', even without direct line of sight with the satellite.

* Telemetry

In the oil and exploration industry, oil pipelines can be monitored in the desert and alarm messages can be sent to designated communication units for quality and maintenance monitoring by personnel.

* Commodity management

Commodity movement and distribution, such as aid provided by NGOs, can be monitored on trucks and with information for remote depots, giving prompt, quality information on current and future stock movements.

Furthermore, on 11 January 2003, the Madiba Racing Team, sponsored by GlobalTrack starts in the Cape to Rio race, one of the first and biggest transoceanic yacht races which sails from Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro. The Madiba Racing Team are the only competitors who are sailing for charity, in this case, the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. The team's movements will be continuously tracked by GlobalTrack and is published on the Internet, with the help of ESRI, thereby allowing the public to track the Madiba at any time, helping to raise more charity for the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund.

For more information contact GIMS, 011 695 0400.