Alliance between Octave Technology Inc. and Active Wireless Systems to Investigate Uses of Active and Passive RFID Technology
Relationship provides both firms with national coverage and extended capabilities

College Park, MD - July 18, 2004 - Octave Technology Inc. (www.octavetech.com) today announced that it has entered into an alliance with Colorado based Active Wireless Systems to help customers explore and optimize the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Octave Technology and AWS have committed to specifically investigating the use of passive and active RFID tags and readers that can operate in a limitless number of environments.

"Industries and companies worldwide have acknowledged the potential impact of RFID on the supply chain. We see similar potential for RFID use, and specifically active RFID tag-use, in many other areas including industrial asset maintenance and monitoring and fleet management", stated Richard Stack, an Octave founder and the company’s President. "Active Wireless' active tag expertise and even their own hardware compliment our software development capabilities and R&D efforts."

This alliance officially launches a business relationship between the two companies. Under the agreement, the companies will field combined teams with the latest RFID and Auto-ID tools to research, develop, market, and deliver solutions globally.

"We view Octave’s capabilities as the link enabling us to offer customers a completely integrated tracking solution", says Tony Corrado, Active Wireless’ founder and president.

Octave Technology and Active Wireless are currently engaged on their second external client engagement, studying the availability of RFID reader chipsets. The first project, which researched the usefulness of active RFID tags that operate at 433.92 MHz and their potential applications, was deemed a tremendous success. To date, the client has not been disclosed.

About Octave Technology
Octave Technology Inc. is software product company whose applications allow for the simple and successful deployment of RFID and Auto-ID technologies.  Octave Technology's solutions utilize various Auto-ID technologies, including contact memory, bar coding and RFID to help organizations manage their physical assets and technical infrastructure.  Coupled with Octave software, virtually any industry or organization can view and utilize their asset data in the most effective and efficient manner possible.

Founded in 2003 and born out of a joint venture between leading technology and engineering firms, Octave Technology is deploying Auto-ID enabled systems in a wide variety of industries. For more information, visit www.octavetech.com

About Active Wireless Systems
Based in Colorado, Active Wireless Systems was established to develop and manufacture battery-powered RFID devices to provide RFID in those environments, and for those products, where passive technology would not be reliable or the appropriate technology. Active Wireless Systems has hardware, software (including firmware) and systems engineering capabilities.