Applied Nutrition PLC Regulatory News (APN)

21 Jan 2008 07:01

Appian Technology PLC21 January 2008 Appian Technology plc / Ticker: APN / Market: AIM / Sector: Technology 21 January 2008 Appian Technology plc ('Appian' or 'the Company') £540,000 ANPR Contract Win Appian Technology plc, the AIM listed provider of Automatic Number PlateRecognition systems ('ANPR') and traffic management products and solutions, haswon a £540,000 contract with a major national police force in the UK to installa new ANPR system. This new system will be capable of processing in excess of20 million vehicle license plates a day, providing the police and other securityagencies with vital intelligence to help fight against serious and organisedcrime. Importantly, this is the first phase of a larger two phase contract,which is expected to be completed within 12 months. The Company will be replacing an existing ANPR system with over 200 of its new,high performance Cobra ANPR cameras at strategic sites and police stations. Itwill also be supplying its Talon ANPR software, which will be used for numberplate recognition processing. All plate data will be transmitted to a centralpoint and collated. Appian Chairman Pat Ryan said, "This was a highly competitive bid process, whichwe won as a direct result of our experience and market leadership in large scalenational ANPR surveillance systems. In addition, our Talon ANPR software andrecently developed Cobra cameras were demonstrably better than competingsolutions. Finally, a critical factor in this contract win was customer visitsto a number of Appian's existing UK Police customers, where we were highlyrecommended and had glowing commendations!" * * ENDS * * For further information visit www.appian-tech.com or contact: Pat Ryan Appian Technology plc Tel: 01628 554 754 Hugo de Salis St. Brides Media & Finance Tel: 020 7242 4477 Tom Griffiths Arbuthnot Securities Tel: 020 7012 2000 Notes to Editors: Appian Technology plc, provides high tech products for automatic number platerecognition ('ANPR'), vehicle identification, modern traffic management, parkingguidance and car park management problems for the surveillance, counterterrorism, access control and congestion charging markets. Key products areTalon ('ANPR') and Navigator PGI (parking guidance information system). In 2003the Company introduced TalonSP, a software based version with all thefunctionality of Talon, which is capable of running a number of cameras on anymodern PC platform. In 2007 the Company went on to develop a range of highlyadvanced number plate reading cameras. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange