December 21, 2006
RF Monolithics, Inc. Subsidiary Aleier Wins Major Contract with the City of Los Angeles
Nation’s Second Largest City Chooses Aleier to Automate
Asset Management and Improve Use of Its Physical Assets
DALLAS, TEXAS, (December 21, 2006) RF Monolithics, Inc. [NASDAQ: RFMI] (“RFM”
or the “Company”) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aleier, Inc. (“Aleier”),
has been chosen by the City of Los Angeles to implement Aleier’s FM1j interprise™ Enterprise
Asset Management (EAM) application as its new Building Management System. The City of Los
Angeles will be using the Aleier solution to track, manage and maintain its buildings and
facilities. Aleier will deliver over $750,000 in software and services to the City of Los Angeles
in multiple phases over the next 18 months under terms of the agreement.
“We are pleased to have been selected to work with the City of Los Angeles to maintain and
grow one of the largest municipal infrastructures in the country,” said William Caver, President
of Aleier, Inc. “Cities such as Los Angeles are especially challenged in today’s world to maintain
and expand their facilities in an era of budget pressure, and we have a proven record of
improving asset performance and controlling maintenance costs in these institutions.”
“This contract with the City of Los Angeles is a testament to the robust software platform that
Aleier has built over the years. The Aleier software platform offerings are a springboard for
RFM’s strategy of being a provider of comprehensive wireless solutions,” said David M. Kirk,
President and Chief Executive Officer of RF Monolithics, Inc. “We will continue to provide existing
government institutional solutions and wireless sensor networks, integrating them over
time to provide our customers with world class and economical solutions in the asset tracking,
monitoring and process control arena.”
Aleier’s FM1j interprise Enterprise Asset Management application was just what the City
needed. The application is built on modern computing platforms and uses state-of-the-art
relational database technology that enables it to process the City’s significant volume of data and
transactions. Implementation of the new asset management system will enable the City to
maximize the productive life of its facilities and equipment, improve its uptime and reliability,
and help its maintenance staff be more efficient in their work. The City’s new building
management system will also improve access to timely information by interfacing with the
City’s existing financial system, human resource system, and purchasing system.
Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States, with a population of 4 million people
spread over an area of more than 450 square miles. Managing the asset base of such a large
institution requires a full-featured, high capacity application. Among its assets, the City of Los
Angeles has 1,400 buildings, 6,500 miles of roads and many other facilities assets. The City
maintains these assets with a full-time staff of over 200 professionals who execute over 90,000
separate work orders annually. The City’s assets are essential to the services it delivers to its
citizens, including providing police and fire protection, operating parks and recreational
facilities, and running its court system. Los Angeles needed an application that could help it keep
its facilities fully functioning and productive by handling its massive database of asset
information and scheduling its large workforce efficiently.
Aleier’s FM1j interprise system is designed to manage the assets of large institutions. It handles
the complex structures of large enterprises, with the geographically dispersed operations and
multi-layered organizational structures. FM1j interprise allows organizations to customize the
roles of its users, so that each user has access to the specific information and functions they need
to perform their duties. FM1j interprise is an entirely web-architected application so that any user
can access all capabilities of the application from any Internet-connected personal computer with
a web browser.
Aleier will deliver and implement the City’s new building management system in several phases
over a period of 18 months. In addition to providing its FM1j interprise application software,
Aleier will provide a wide range of professional services to assist Los Angeles in implementing
its new building management system and converting from its current legacy system. The total
value of this agreement to Aleier exceeds $750,000, and the City will realize benefits from FM1j
interprise in increased asset productivity, reduced capital expenditures and lower operating costs.
Its selection as the Enterprise Asset Management solution provider for the City of Los Angeles
further confirms Aleier’s leadership position in serving public institutions. For over 14 years,
Aleier has provided software and services to government agencies, universities and school
districts, military organizations, correctional systems, libraries and municipal utilities. Aleier’s
solutions have helped these organizations maintain the productivity and extend the life of their
full range of assets, including buildings, vehicles, equipment, and roadways, thereby helping
them better serve their constituents while responsibly managing their staffs and budgets.
About Aleier
With offices in Plano, Texas, Aleier has deployed Enterprise Asset Management software for
over a decade in municipal, state, and federal government agencies and businesses for
applications including maintenance management, fixed asset tracking, building automation and
electronics control and monitoring. Aleier software provides customers the ability to utilize and
manage the data they now have available, which can be collected via either a wired or wireless
data collection infrastructure. Its architecture and features make it an ideal platform for
developing asset management and optimization applications seen as a key opportunity within the
pervasive internet space. For more information regarding Aleier’s products and services, please
visit Aleier’s web site at www.aleier.com
About RFM
Celebrating over 25 years of providing low-power wireless solutions, RFM, headquartered in Dallas,
Texas, is enabling the next generation of wireless applications with a solutions-driven, technology-enabled
approach to wireless connectivity. RFM provides the connections to extend the edge of the Internet to communicate
with the billions of unconnected machines through a broad range of low-power wireless solutions – from comprehensive
industrial wireless sensor networks to high-performance RF components. For more information on RF Monolithics, Inc.,
please visit the Company’s websites at http://www.rfm.com and http://www.wirelessis.com.
