Our New Asset Intelligence Business Unit

1GE Equipment Services

Trailer Fleet Services

Our New Asset Intelligence Business Unit

GE - Trailer Fleet

ServicesMonitors trailers135,000+

Assets100 Branches

GE Healthcare

Monitors Mobile MRI

trailers Liquid Helium

GE EnergyMonitors Portable

Generators

GE WaterMonitors

Mobile Water Treatment Systems

Creating a Telematics Center of Excellence… Aggressively Targeting Additional Industry Segments



How it worksGPS

Satellites

Gateway Earth Station

GE Server

Network Control Center

End User

Two-waySatellite

Tracking Device

XML Data Feed

Customer System

Location & Event Monitoring via Satellite Location & Event Monitoring via Satellite TechnologyTechnology

Location & Event Monitoring via Satellite Location & Event Monitoring via Satellite TechnologyTechnology



Telematics Components Cost Reduction

Unit Cost of GPS Receiver

6 7 8

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1992

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199520009 1 2 3 4 5 6

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200

400

600

800

1000

Year 1991 - 2006

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Note: 1991 -2000 U.S. GPS Council : 2001 - 2005 VW BOM, 2006 Delphi Est



History of Navigation

Basic Navigation: Celestial Navigation13th Century: Magnetic Compass1907: Gyrocompass1912: Radio Direction Finding1930’s: Radar and Inertial Nav1940’s: Loran-A1960’s: Omega and Navy Transit (SatNav)1970’s: Loran-C1980’s: GPS



THE PATH TO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOUR TRAILER FLEET

User-friendly web site

•Web or XML

•Geo fences

•Alerts

•Low battery messages

•Reports

•Sensor enable/disable

•User rights control



THE PATH TO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOUR TRAILER FLEET

Pre-defined reports or export data to Excel to create your own.

Web-based reports



GPS Specifications…

Time to First Fix (TTFF) in Seconds, 95% Probability

E.g. 50 seconds TRAP: 2D vs 3D Fix?

Cold Start First Position Fix Accuracy, 99% Probability

E.g. <100m TRAP: Not having Ephemeris, time to download

Static Position Accuracy, 99% Probability

E.g. 5m CEP TRAP: What happens the other 50%

Power Consumption

E.g. 180mw typical, 200mw TRAP: Must have deep sleep LP

mode

Power-down (<10ua) as soon as 3D Fix obtained



GPS Case Study: No GPS Location Fix on Lot 11

Only Occurs at 7AM at this Specific Lot

GPS Fix occurs at 8AM, 9AM 11AM, etc

Sources of Interference

Coherent CW:

Specific Spectral Line Interference

Signal within 2 MHz Bandwidth

Pulsed Broadband:

Peak AWGN interference power, Varied Duty Cycle

Aluminum Processing Plant 1 Block Away!!

Pulsed CW

Peak CW Interference Power, Varied Duty Cycle

Signal Attenuation

Signal Attenuation from Multipath, Signal Blockage or Fading

Selected Satellite Signal is Attenuated



GPS Case Study 2: Poor Position Accuracy

Greater than 50m Errors, Stationary Asset Will “move” 200 meters

2D vs 3D Fix

2D = 3 Satellites Received, 3D = 4 Satellites Received

Why 4 Satellites?

Accurate Positioning Requires Very Precise Timing Measurement

Takes .06 Seconds for Signal to Reach Ground

At 300,000 Km/s 1/1,000,000 sec error => 300m Position Errors

Satellites have atomic clocks, two rubidium and two cesium

Receivers have only quartz clocks

Problem identified with NMEA Diagnostics Tool => 2D Fix Received

Only

Could wait 20 min for 3D but Solution was to Change GPS Chip Set



GPS Case Study: Visual GPS Tools for Diagnostics



TFS Mobile Solutions Center…

• 53” Customized Tractor/Trailer

• Satellite Connectivity

• Complete Training Facility

• Awning for Outdoor & Indoor Entertaining

• 30 Customer Events Scheduled for ’05• Nascar, Super Bowl, Monday Night Football

• On-Site Customer Training •Nationwide City to City Tour

• Showcase for New Technology • Test Bed for New Products & Services

The Vehicle… How it Will Be Used…

… Bringing The Latest Technology to Our Customers



Gives us… “visibility for customer service, and the ability to update the positioning of equipment around the country. This helps our Operations group plan capacity as new orders come in.” - Bekins Van Lines

“We’re looking to data we’ll be able to harvest from the new GE VeriWise™ features coming online, such as geo-fencing, to get us where we need to be from a reliability and security standpoint.” - G&P Trucking

“Via our website, we currently offer our customers the best shipment-tracking system available…We’re in the process of integrating the GE VeriWise™ technology with this system; together they allow us to track more than the shipment; we can track down to the SKU. That will allow us to really bring this technology to bear on our entire operation.” -

Caldwell Freight

Customer reaction: VeriWise™

TRAILER FLEET SERVICES FROM GE



GE: imagination at work…in Telematics Motion Tracking Units Employing Motion Sensors for Reducing Power

Consumption Therein

Method & Apparatus for Evaluating the State of Charge of Batteries

Method for Associating an Asset with a Monitoring Device

Selective Reporting of Events in Asset Tracking Systems

Progressive Idle Period Management in Acquiring GPS Signals

Cargo Sensing System Using Infrared and Pattern Matching Algorithms

Predictive Wirelessly-based Diagnostic & Metrics Utility for a GPS Transponder

Cargo Sensing using an Imaging Device

System & Method for Minimizing the Charging Time of a Battery

Covert Antenna Designs for Trailer Tracking

Documents

Our New Asset Intelligence Business Unit