Petards Regulatory News (PEG)

5 Oct 2007 07:00

Petards Group PLC05 October 2007 Petards Group plc ("Petards" or "the Company") Contract award Petards, the AIM listed developer of advanced surveillance systems, announcesthat it has been awarded a contract by train operator First Great Western forPetards eyeTrainTM on-board digital CCTV systems. The contract, which is worth over £1m, is for the supply of eyeTrainTM CCTV andinstallation services. The systems are to be fitted to 253 vehicles withinFirst Great Western's fleet of trains. Deliveries are expected to commencetowards the end of 2007 and will continue throughout 2008. As part of thiscontract Petards will be fitting forward facing cameras and its AutomaticPassenger Counting (APC) systems both of which integrate into eyeTrain's systemarchitecture. Petards Chief Executive Bill Conn said "We are extremely pleased to have securedanother significant contract from First Group and to be working with them ontheir programme to extend the coverage of on-board CCTV within their fleet.This contract award again demonstrates Petards' customers high regard foreyeTrainTM and our ability to provide innovative solutions for our customers,such as the addition of APC to the eyeTrainTM range." For further information: Petards Group plc Collins Stewart Limited Parkgreen CommunicationsAndy Wonnacott, Finance Director Mark Connelly Paul McManus Tel: 01932 788 288 Tel: 020 7523 8000 Tel: 020 7479 7933 www.petards.com Mob: 07980 541 893 paul.mcmanus@parkgreenmedia.com Editor's Notes: About Petards Petards has been providing on-board CCTV systems to the rail industry for nearlyten years. Its latest generation of on-board CCTV system, eyeTrainTM waslaunched in 2006, is rail-proven and fully digital, with superb image qualityand terabyte storage capacity. It captures video from the seating and doorwayareas of passenger vehicles to clearly identify any offenders. eyeTrainTM alsolinks to other train sub-systems that can include automatic passenger counting,alarms, entertainment, public address and information systems. Petards APCsystems provide train operators with information to help them manage theirfleets and to assist them in reducing overcrowding by measuring passengermovements on and off trains on a station by station basis, vehicle occupancylevels, as well as aiding in the selection of stopping patterns and trainlength. Forward facing cameras capture the view from the driver's window - avital piece of evidence for investigations into trackside incidents. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange