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  Simtrol Acquires Sole Ownership of Justice Digital Solutions

 
  December 5, 2006  
 
 
 

NORCROSS, GA – Simtrol, Inc. (OTCBB: SMRL), a leading device control middleware provider, today announced it has acquired 100% ownership of Justice Digital Solutions, LLC (JDS) in an agreement with Integrated Digital Systems, LLC.

JDS develops and sells Curiax Arraigner™, a unique digital arraignment software solution that builds on the successful implementation of OakVideo, a CIO Magazine Top 100 Award winning application (www.oakgov.com/about/news/pr_06_94.html) developed by Oakland County, MI. In a technical and licensing relationship with Oakland County, JDS is advancing this application as part of a national rollout in partnership with IBM and Polycom. Curiax Arraigner leverages Simtrol’s powerful device control and monitoring middleware and IBM’s WebSphere and Rich Content Infrastructure software as part of its solution stack.

In a November 12th editorial in The Oakland Press, Oakland County stated 10,000 warrants have been issued using the solution, resulting in $1.5 million in local police officer time savings. They also estimate savings of $3.9 to $4.0 million per year using the solution for conducting digital arraignments, resulting in the system paying for itself in one to two years. A full text of the editorial is located at www.theoaklandpress.com/stories/111206/opi_2006111228.shtml.

Simtrol’s Chief Executive Officer, Rick Egan, commented: “We have examined several vertical markets to leverage Simtrol’s core technology and have found a killer application to drive significant revenue. Based on Oakland County’s strong return on investment and the scalability of our Curiax™ software, each of the nation’s 3,143 counties is a potential customer. Varying with county populations, Curiax solutions – consisting of hardware, software and services – will cost between $250,000 and $6 million and be implemented by our channel partners. This equates to a total market size of approximately $3 billion for digital arraignment products, of which $1 billion is software. In a post-September 11th world where our law enforcement officials are directed to do increasingly more to protect citizens, Curiax allows redeployment of officers to street duty to increase first responder capabilities, while providing an average return on investment of 12 to 18 months. This is a powerful combination of customer and cost benefits for this multibillion dollar market.”

In addition to the rapid redeployment of police officers, JDS customers will experience numerous other benefits similar to Oakland County including: increased safety at courts, jails, and holding cells by virtually eliminating offender transport, with a corresponding reduction in potential liability; demonstrable return on investment for counties by reducing costs of incarceration, transportation, and payroll costs; and, increased productivity by enabling law enforcement agencies to prepare booking documents online and create digital case files on a central server.

The company also announced it has hired Stephen J. Kale as the Chief Legal Officer of JDS. Mr. Kale is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School with 28 years experience as a practicing attorney. Mr. Kale has maintained a private practice for the past 15 years in addition to his role as a consultant for program design and interface to law enforcement, prosecutorial and court personnel for Oakland County’s OakVideo project.

Mr. Egan stated: “We are thrilled to have Steve join our team because his unique law and technology background made him a great fit for Oakland County’s OakVideo project. This experience will be invaluable to JDS as we rapidly advance our software and channel partner program in 2007.”

About the Companies

Simtrol, Inc. is headquartered in Atlanta and develops and sells a unique form of device control middleware that ties devices to applications using open standard interfaces. This enables companies to control, monitor, diagnose, schedule and manage devices in a powerful, uniform way. The Company’s products are used in a number of vertical markets including healthcare, law enforcement, digital signage, education, corporate, hospitality and residential. Simtrol sells to a number of Fortune 1000 corporations, government entities, educational systems and other end users through professional system integrators, value added resellers (VARs) and other distributors who are supported by the Company’s sales and technical support staff. For more information about Simtrol, please visit www.simtrol.com.

Justice Digital Solutions develops and sells Curiax™, a digital judicial arraignment solution based on the success of a deployment in Oakland County, Michigan. In a unique technical and licensing relationship with Oakland County, JDS is advancing this application as part of a comprehensive digital arraignment solution. JDS markets to county governments in the United States and foreign governments around the world. For more information about Justice Digital Solutions, please visit www.justicedigital.com.

The digital arraignment platform was developed to avoid the dangerous and costly logistical problems associated with the transport of prisoners and the overcrowding of court dockets. By integrating multipoint videoconferencing, digital document management, digital signatures and evidence into a unified platform, the solution substantially reduces the time and money associated with transporting prisoners to and from court for arraignments, while significantly improving court security and lowering law enforcement costs.

Certain statements contained in this press release are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, such as statements relating to financial results and plans for future business development activities, and are thus prospective. These statements appear in a number of places in this release and include all statements that are not statements of historical fact regarding intent, belief or current expectations of the Company, its directors or its officers with respect to, among other things: (i) the Company’s financing plans; (ii) trends affecting the Company’s financial condition or results of operations; (iii) the Company’s growth strategy and operating strategy; (iv) the Company’s new or future product offerings. The words “may,” “would,” “could,” “will,” “expect,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “intend,” “plans,” and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company’s ability to control. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. Among the key risks, assumptions and factors that may affect operating results, performance and financial condition are liquidity and other capital resources issues, fluctuations in its quarterly results, competition and the other factors discussed in detail in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

OnGoer is a trademark of Simtrol. Curiax and Curiax Arraigner are trademarks of Justice Digital Solutions LLC. All other brands, logos, products or company names are the copyrights and/or trademarks of their respective holders.

 
     

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