Singapore Hears the Call of Clearsonics

Clearsonics has won a hotly contested bid to supply an emergency communication system for South East Asias longest underground road system, a 9km section of Singapores new US$1.8 billion Kallang/Paya Lebar Expressway. Clearsonics WayPhone is a highly reliable, emergency help point incorporating patented Voice Clarity Enhancement (VCE) technology, which allows the listener to hear and be heard even in very noisy environments. Clearsonics has installations Chile, Brazil, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, Ireland, Greece, Denmark, and every Australian State and Territory.

(PRWEB) June 1, 2004 --Australian company Clearsonics will supply an emergency communication system for South East Asias longest underground road system, a 9km section of Singapores new US$1.8 billion Kallang/Paya Lebar Expressway.

The win comes after a year of negotiation and trials in a hotly contested bid for the construction project, which is managed by Singapores Land Transport Authority.

Clearsonics has commenced manufacture of more than 200 WayPhones and control room facilities. The company will customise its incident management software, working closely with Guthrie Engineering, the prime communications contractor for the KPE, which stretches 12 km from the East Coast Parkway in the south to the Tampines Expressway in the north-east.

The WayPhone is a highly reliable, emergency help point incorporating Clearsonics' patented Voice Clarity Enhancement (VCE) technology, which allows the listener to hear and be heard even in very noisy environments.

The technology was originally developed in Australia in association with local specialists in software, signal processing, acoustics and industrial design.

A caller using a WayPhone can carry out an intelligible conversation within metres of trucks roaring past, even inside a motorway tunnel," says Clearsonics Marketing Director Sean Flaherty.

The units have proven to be robust and resistant to vandalism and extreme weather, even withstanding Western Australias Cyclone Monty in March this year, when the WayPhone was the only thing left standing at that installation."

Clearsonics win builds on numerous successes for the Australian company, which was listed at number 19 in this years Australian Deloitte Fast Fifty technology companies.

Approximately 75 percent of Clearsonics revenue is from export orders, with installations in Chile, Brazil, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, Ireland, Greece and Denmark, and distributors in the UK, Denmark, Ireland, France, Malaysia, Thailand, and China. WayPhones are installed in all Australian States and Territories, including Melbourne's high-profile CityLink roadway project, Sydney Harbour Ferry Terminals, Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, Lake Burley Griffin in the ACT, University of Queensland, and Adelaides Heysen Tunnel. In WA, councils, Curtin University, Police, the mining sector, and the entire roads system use Clearsonics phones.

The company is backed by Neo Technology Ventures (formerly Newport Capital Funds Management).

Contact: Clearsonics Marketing Director Sean Flaherty, +618 8410-2539; +61 417 607 003 www.clearsonics.com