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Dust Networks' Wireless Sensor Networking Technology Enables Next-Generation Parking and City Management Solutions

Streetline Selects Dust Networks as Technology Partner for its City Infrastructure Technologies Platform with Recent Deployment in Los Angeles

SENSORS EXPO AND CONFERENCE, Rosemont, Ill. (June 11, 2007) – Dust Networks™, the leading provider of highly reliable, low-power wireless sensor networking (WSN) systems, and Streetline, Inc., announced today that Dust Networks has been selected as the WSN provider for Streetline's City Infrastructure Technologies (CiT) Platform. CiT offers cities a quick path to efficient planning, workforce management, revenue growth and quality customer service. By using Dust's network-ready SmartMesh® products, Streetline was able to bring its products to market quickly, gaining a significant time advantage in this emerging application area.

Dust's network-ready SmartMesh® products, based on the company's Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol (TSMP™), are integrated into Streetline's parking management solutions—including Meter Monitors and Vehicle Sensors—providing highly reliable, low-power wireless connectivity to previously inaccessible information. Recent Streetline parking management deployments include a pilot with the City of Los Angeles designed to support the city's on-street parking operation with real-time information about meter operation and parking space usage. With such information, cities can increase revenue opportunities, reduce traffic congestion, and have better parking and overall city management efficiency

“We selected Dust Networks' TSMP-based products because they are industrially hardened, highly reliable, and deliver extremely long battery life, which is very important in rugged urban environments,” said Tod Dykstra, Streetline's CEO. “Because Dust provided an end-to-end networking solution to help us collect and manage information, we were able to focus on developing innovative products that simply deliver the information our customers need.”

Dust's network-ready SmartMesh products provide customers with a complete WSN solution made up of motes (individual wireless sensor nodes) and managers (highly integrated gateways) that are proven, scalable and easy to integrate for fast time-to-market applications. All SmartMesh products utilize TSMP, pioneered by Dust Networks, which serves as the foundation for the industry's most reliable, low-power mesh architecture. Dust's SmartMesh manager combines highly integrated gateways with sophisticated networking, data and security management functions and an open XML-based application programming interface (API), making integration with Streetline CiT fast and easy.

“We are seeing continued demand from a broad range of companies who are launching reliable, low-power monitoring and control applications built on our TSMP-based products,” said Steve Toteda, vice president of marketing for Dust Networks. “Companies like Streetline can now help their customers manage and leverage information from the physical world in exciting new ways that were previously only imagined.”

About Streetline’s City Infrastructure Technologies (CiT) Platform
Based on reliable ultra-low power networks, environmental sensors and machine interface technology, Streetline's City Infrastructure Technologies platform (CiT) is a revolutionary service designed specifically to support city management. Streetline’s parking management system, featuring Meter Monitors and Vehicle Sensors, is part of the CiT platform.

Streetline Meter Monitors provide two-way networking to standard single space parking meters, with no wiring and no modification to the meter housings. The patented technology is compatible with over 90% of installed meters, and in most cases will simply plug into existing meter data ports. The Monitors help cities track usage and vandalism, and provide a detailed audit of all meter operations in real-time. Streetline Vehicle Sensors deliver accurate real-time information about arrivals, departures and occupancy in on-street parking spaces. The rugged and reliable sensors are available in an easily deployed surface mount version, as well as a pavement-embedded version for snow areas. In combination, the Meter Monitors and Vehicle Sensors give operators a true and complete picture of on-street parking operations, providing a solid foundation for effective enforcement, maintenance, pricing and other policy decisions.

About Dust Networks
Dust Networks, the leader in embedded wireless sensor networking (WSN), provides ultra low-power, highly reliable products to OEMs in the industrial automation, building automation and defense markets. Dust enables its customers to offer monitoring and control solutions that provide unprecedented access to information from the physical world, resulting in improved operations, safer work environments, and increased competitive advantage. Dust's network-ready SoC-based products provide complete wireless sensor networking (WSN) solutions that are proven, scalable and easy to integrate for fast time-to-market applications. SmartMesh products utilize the Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol (TSMP), pioneered by Dust Networks, which serves as the foundation for the industry's most flexible, low-power mesh architecture. Dust partners with industry and standards groups such as ISA, the HART Foundation, and WINA to ensure the broad adoption of interoperable wireless sensor networking products. For more information please visit www.dustnetworks.com.

About Streetline, Inc.
Streetline is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information visit: www.streetlinenetworks.com, or contact Michele Senders at msenders@streetlinenetworks.com.

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