Englewood, CO—June 18, 2008 – M2M Data Corporation, a leading provider of Internet-based Intelligent Services, today announced a new and significant commitment to the upstream energy market targeted at exploration and production companies.>

M2M Data Corporation will offer its iSCADA® turnkey hosted suite of monitoring, control and alerting services to energy producers allowing them to monitor flow computers, compressors, tank batteries, artificial lift devices and other related surface equipment.

Producers review and graph individual wells and devices, create customized reports and export data to a wide variety of software programs and back office systems, as well as customize their website layout to view any group of wells.

This added functionality to M2M Data Corporation’s existing suite of services allows producers to make real-time operational adjustments which lower operational costs, reduce downtime, improve safety, and increase production.

Exploration and production customers will also benefit from M2M’s suite of optional add-on services which include Preventive Maintenance Management, Machinery Analysis, Field Data Collection, Resource Optimization, and a hosted Control Center. These services are supported by a 24×7 Network Operating Center and customer support staff.

Matt Begler, M2M Data Corporation’s Vice President of Sales, said, “We’re excited to be extending our services to the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry and are committed to helping our customers achieve operational excellence. We welcome Jim Bell to our company as an Oil and Gas Sales Engineer who brings in-depth producer-based remote monitoring sales experience and is specifically tasked to support this market.”

iServices™ are rapidly deployed, managed machine-to-machine communications services that allow machine owners to monitor, manage, and optimize their operations. The service is provided on a turnkey basis including communication services with minimal or no capital expense, and is backed by a service level guarantee.

KORE Telematics an M2M wireless services provider announced today that its network played a fundamental role in exposing an organized ring of rental equipment theft.

From the press release:

“In late 2007, perpetrators rented equipment simultaneously from several branches of an equipment rental company in North Carolina, with the intent of moving the equipment out of the country. Fortunately for the rental company, it had outfitted its vehicles-for-rent with a monitoring and tracking system from DPL America, powered by the KORE Telematics machine-to-machine wireless network.

When the firm became suspicious of one of the transactions and tracked the equipment to a location nearly 100 miles from where it was supposed to be, they understood immediately that something more sinister was going on. The company quickly ran locations for every rental from the previous day and tracked another piece of equipment all the way to Texas, where it had been transported through the night to a wrecking yard near the Mexico border.”

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