Hi-G-Tek Announces Availability of ISO 18000-7 Standard Products

Active-RFID Standard Promises to Drive Down Prices and Increase Innovation with
Multiple Vendor Competition
ROCKVILLE, Md.--(Business Wire)--
Hi-G-Tek (www.higtek.com), a developer of active-RFID (Radio Frequency
Identification) sensing and control solutions for tracking high-value cargo and
sensitive materials, today announced the availability of its 18.7 Secure Series.
The new product line meets the International Organization for Standardization`s
(ISO) 18000-7 active-RFID technology standard and includes both a family of
Interrogators (Readers) and Transponders (Tags). In addition, the company
announces it has already received a significant purchase order for a broad range
of the products.

The ISO 18000-7 standard protocol, now required by the US Department of Defense
(DoD) for use around the world operates at 433 megahertz. This frequency
features low power consumption that allows the incorporation of various sensor
attributes including breach, shock, light, temperature and humidity. In
addition, the standard establishes a method for an automatic identification of
assets at distances up to 100 meters.

The ISO 18000-7: March 2008 version of the standard was named in the recent U.S.
Army Product Manager Joint-Automatic Identification Technology (PM J-AIT)
offices award of an RFID III contract to supply active-RFID to the U.S. DoD and
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Allies. This contract was awarded in
December 2008 to four contractor and active-RFID supplier teams including
Hi-G-Tek and its prime contractor Unisys Corporation. The RFID III contract will
supply a universal, integrated platform to all government and military users of
active-RFID components for logistics and location tracking and conditional
monitoring of cargo and assets.

According to Larry Blue, CEO of Hi-G-Tek, "Hi-G-Tek advocates the use of ISO
18000-7 in both commercial and defense applications, because this move from
proprietary technology to the international standard is a far more open RFID
infrastructure that promises to drive down prices with multiple vendor
competition. The ISO 18000-7 standard, as applied to the RFID III contract
award, ensures total interoperability between the four vendors` products. As
such, Hi-G-Tek is ready to fulfill opportunities utilizing the standard in the
global intermodal shipping, seaport logistics, downstream petroleum
transportation and other remote asset management applications around the world."

Hi-G-Tek is an active proponent of the ISO 18000-7 standard and a founding
member of the DASH7 Alliance, an independent industry action group whose primary
goal is to promote the protocol in global commercial and defense industries.

About Hi-G-Tek

Hi-G-Tek is the developer of Highly Intelligent RFID asset sense and control
solutions for fuel distribution and global trade lanes. The company`s patented
"sensing" technology has applications in several key markets, including homeland
security, transportation, fuel distribution, military, biomedical and global
trade lanes.

Hi-G-Tek`s unique active-RFID solutions provide unparalleled levels of real-time
security and "sensing" of key assets, whether stationary or in transit, indoors
or outdoors. Its sophisticated technology not only detects where an "asset" is,
but also its status or condition-anytime, from anywhere in the world. For
additional information, please visit www.higtek.com.

Hi-G-Tek
Gina Lehman, 301-279-0022 ext. 3027
gina.lehman@higtek.com
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