April 11, 2005, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

System 3000 Pinpoints Location of Fires in LSU Burn Building Tests.

NetTalon announced today that the System 3000 Emergency Information System was tested during the week of April 4-9, 2005. Six burn building tests were conducted as part of normal training operations at the LSU's Fire & Emergency Training Institute. These tests were designed to validate NetTalon's claim of identifying the location of the fire while responding units were on-route to the burning facility.

Dave Kimmel, NetTalon's Director of Engineering, was on-site and monitored the performance of the System 3000 during each of the burn-building training exercises. In addition, the tests were monitored remotely by NetTalon personnel located at NetTalon's Fredericksburg, VA headquarters as well as employees attending the ISC West Conference in Las Vegas. Dave stated that in each test, the System 3000 precisely identified the location of the fire before responding units arrived on scene.

Dave stated that the System 3000 was tested six (6) times during the training exercises and performed as expected in each case. In the initial test, the smoke sensors performed as expected allowing NetTalon to view in real-time the spread of the smoke through the building during the initial phase of the exercise. However, once the smoke sensors were in alarm, they did not provide additional information because the smoke in the building was not completely cleared out and the sensors reset before a second burn test was begun.

However, NetTalon's DTS temperature sensors proved to be realiable and remarkably robust as evidenced by the fact that although the DTS packaging melted (see above), the sensors continued to operate during additional burn tests.

Furthermore, the NetTalon DTS temperature sensors were able to continually pinpoint the source of the fire by monitoring the rise in temperature in real-time, thus offering monitoring personnel the ability to pinpoint the location of each fire prior to the arrival of the emergency personnel on-site.

This ability to remotely identify the location of an incipient fire clearly separates the System 3000 from the competition. These initial tests clearly demonstrate the NetTalon Advantage.

NetTalon would like to thank Chris Spurlock and all members of the LSU Fire & Emergency Training Institute for their support and expert advice. NetTalon plans to run additional test in the near future in order to quantify the performance advantages of NetTalon's patented System 3000 technology.