RIYADH, 12 June 2003 — A Saudi Economic Offset company has manufactured a satellite-based Automatic Vehicle Location System (AVLS) that makes it possible to track the movement of a vehicle on a bilingual Arabic/English digital map, the speed at which the vehicle is traveling, and the route it is following.
Dr.Ghassan A. Al-Shibl, president and CEO of Advanced Electronics Company (AEC), told a press conference here that the product with the brand name Madar had been developed in collaboration with King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Farsi Maps, Saudi Telecom Company and Generation Skills. The whole system is based on a combination of satellite navigation, GPS, GIS and mobile telephony for sending and receiving messages through a base station located at AEC headquarters.
