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Source: The Star (page 4)

Paging and trunked radio operator Electcoms Sdn Bhd, is expected to introduce vehicle tracking services next year.

Managing director Ong Boon Kheng said this would be made possible when the company began introducing two-way paging by first quarter of next year.

The proposed tracking system will be based on the widely used Global Positioning System (GPS) device and is aimed at tapping Electcoms massive paging infrastructure nationwide.

Two-way paging, which is common in the United States allows alphabetical and numeric interactions to paging system will be used as a medium for carrying GPS signal transmissions, enabling the location and velocity of targets to be determined from a based.

Ong said Electcoms was coming up with its own map of Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur, to beat the only snag to the project's software development.

We need digitalised maps to match GPS's credibility and at present there is none," he said after the launching of Multi-Net Logic Trunked Radio Roaming Service in Petaling Jaya last friday.

Vehicle tracking has vast potential with the rapid growth in the trucking and car leasing industry. Based on US experience, the technology is expected to become synonymous with operators of large fleets of vehicles.

With the launching of Multi-Net, Electcoms would become the first company in South-East Asia to operate logic trunked radio (LTR), which does a number of functions existing trunked radios cannot carry out. Electcoms manager M.C. Tong said LTR was the first real system to be introduced if the term "nationwide coverage" were to be associated with it.