Sensoria Corporation, developer of the Sensoria Telematics Environment, today
announced a partnership with the premier application service provider for the
automotive aftermarket MechanicNet Group Inc., to enable a diagnostic service in
vehicles that monitors data from on-board systems, alerts drivers to trouble,
describes the problems and their urgency, and passes the information to a selected
service dealer. 



Sensoria will demonstrate the MechanicNet services in a vehicle outfitted with the
Sensoria Telematics Environment during the Society of Automotive Engineers Digital
Car show March 4 to 7, 2002 at the Cobo Center in Detroit (booth #5011). Also being
demonstrated are off-board navigation and mobile content services including news,
weather, sports and traffic reports.



 “As the consumer, service dealer, and parts vendor are notified of the impending
repair, uncertainty and urgency are reduced”, explains Steven Liao, president of
MechanicNet. “ This benefits the driver and service provider alike by improving
communications and lowering repair time and costs.” MechanicNet provides technology
solutions to service dealers in over 20 states and Canada.



“Sensoria and MechanicNet have enabled a fully functioning system for gathering
real data from the car,” explains Dave Gelvin, president and CEO of Sensoria Corp.
“Our open platform gives drivers access to important diagnostic information, but
the real value-added feature for consumers is its support of innovative yet
practical services like MechanicNet’s that provide detailed repair information and
service locations when that information is most needed.”  

Analysts are predicting great consumer demand for remote vehicle diagnostics once
these services become more commonplace. Frost & Sullivan
(www.transportation.frost.com) projects North American remote vehicle diagnostics
market will increase steadily to $2.38 billion by 2007from revenues of $360 million
in 2000. 



About Sensoria Corporation 

Sensoria Corporation is a leader in embedded server software solutions that network
the systems embedded in vehicles, homes and industry with the Internet. Sensoria’s
technology enables access to advanced telematics, telemetry and location-based
services from the car, workplace or home. Founded in 1998, Sensoria Corp. is a
private company based in San Diego, California. For more information, visit
http://www.sensoria.com/ or call (858) 673-4460.



About MechanicNet

Headquartered in Fremont, Calif., MechanicNet is a privately held company that
deploys Internet based technologies to the automotive aftermarket community. 
MechanicNet provides mission critical applications to the automotive aftermarket
and deploys efficiency enabling tools in the areas of customer retention, business
process automation, and other profit enhancing tools.  For more information about
MechanicNet, its technologies, and its services, please visit www.mechanicnet.com
or call us at 877-MECHNET.  

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