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CybIT Holdings PLC
4 September 2001


                CybIT Holdings plc ("CybIT" or "the Company")

                 Launch of HiPer portable telematics platform

The Company is pleased to announce the launch of HiPer, the first portable
telematics platform to combine personal location and emergency alert
technology, for personal safety and security support for commercial and
domestic users. The solution uses GPS satellite-based tracking capabilities to
pinpoint a user's location in realtime, combined with GSM messaging
capabilities that allow the user to call for help or support from emergency
services, help centres or other designated recipients, and tracking can also
be carried out over the Internet. The solution is intended for mobile, remote
or vulnerable users, and is similar in appearance to a mobile phone.


HiPer is also the first mobile phone-style device to use the new Siemens TC35
dual band GSM module, which works on two different frequency bands to improve
the range and reduce network saturation problems. This ensures that HiPer
provides powerful personal safety capabilities regardless of a user's
location. The solution is aimed at children, senior and handicapped people, as
well as commercial users, policemen on duty, or any user who may be unable to
contact emergency support or other backup rapidly in an accident or dangerous
situation. Concerned third parties can check a user's location if authorised
to do so, and HiPer also supports exception-based reporting if a user enters
certain areas - ensuring that a child has arrived on school grounds, for
example, or notifying a parent when they leave.


"There is obviously a strong market for this type of solution from parents who
want to be able to quickly check the location of their children when they are
out playing, or the concerned relatives of an elderly person who lives alone,"
said Richard Horsman, CEO of CybIT. "However, we also see a strong demand from
the commercial sector, with applications including a social worker or a nurse
who make home visits or policemen on the beat. HiPer also supports mobile and
remote workers such as surveyors working in isolated locations or climbers who
may be stranded by rapidly descending fog. We are also considering
incorporating 'man-down' functionality into HiPer, to automatically raise an
alarm and pinpoint a user's location if they are unconscious or
incapacitated."


"We believe that HiPer is the smallest portable telematics platform available
on the market, and the only one within its application range to combine
personal location and emergency alert capabilities. We are increasingly seeing
the improved safety and security benefits of this type of solution in the
fleet and motor industries, but telematics capabilities have, to date, been
relatively unexplored with regards to personal usage. Whereas commercially,
the benefits include cost savings and efficiency improvements, here we are
looking at saving lives," Richard Horsman added.


HiPer's key advantage over a mobile phone is that it allows users to summon
help by pressing a single emergency button, which automatically forwards the
user's exact location. Users can call for help or support when in trouble, be
called by third parties who want to check they are OK, be called and located
by emergency help centres, or call a main contact or an operator to be
connected. There is no need to remember phone numbers, which can be difficult
in an emergency situation users need only press either the emergency button,
or a call button that supplies normal telephone functionality to a predefined
number.


For more information, please contact:

David Chapman

CybIT Holdings plc

01480 389 100

Philip Szomszor

iba

01780 721 433




Additional information about CybIT is available at www.cybit.co.uk
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