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March 01, 2007 04:30 AM Pacific Time

Aviation Diagnostics Leader Intelligent Automation Corporation Introduces SuperHUMS™

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POWAY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Intelligent Automation Corporation (IAC), proven leaders in aircraft Health and Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS), today introduced an industry leading advancement in aircraft diagnostic technology with the SuperHUMS™ family of products. The SuperHUMS™ product line is based on the highly successful, combat-proven IAC 1209 Modern Signal Processing Unit (MSPU) selected by Bell Helicopter, Boeing, and the U.S. Army.

IAC’s pioneering SuperHUMS™ product line is a revolutionary advancement in diagnostic technology for aircraft condition based maintenance (CBM) applications. The patent pending, reconfigurable computing architecture features faster than real time processing using the latest Virtex-4 FPGA (field programmable gate arrays) and XtremeDSP (Digital Signal Processing) technology from Xilinx Corporation. The result is the highest performance machinery diagnostic and monitoring system on the market today, delivering more than ten times the performance for about the same price as previous generation HUMS.

According to IAC Chief Executive Officer Jeff Goodrich, “IAC’s SuperHUMS™ is a technological breakthrough in aviation diagnostics. It’s faster, lighter, and better than previous HUMS systems for about the same price. IAC is proud to be recognized as the world’s most popular provider of HUMS. This latest advancement will continue that track record of success as we give our customers supercomputer like processing speed using all of their existing software and diagnostics. Given the dramatic increase in processing speed, the SuperHUMS™ is the last HUMS our customers should ever need to purchase.”

IAC has leveraged the significant growth and availability of commercial off the shelf FPGA software tools, services, and Intellectual Property (IP) cores into an affordable and FAA -certifiable FPGA-based processing system. As with all previous IAC HUMS, the new SuperHUMS™ product line will provide users with the ability to remotely reconfigure their HUMS anywhere in the world.

The SuperHUMS™ product line consists of the IAC 1134 (light helicopters and fixed wing applications), the IAC 1239 (large helicopters), the IAC 1474 (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), and the IAC 1249 HUMS / CVR/FDR (cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder) combined unit intended for both fixed and rotary wing applications).

About Intelligent Automation Corporation (IAC)

Intelligent Automation Corporation (IAC) is a machinery diagnostics company with a unique blend of research, systems engineering, manufacturing, and field support expertise. Our products and technology add value for our customers by applying easy-to-understand advanced technology solutions to complex problems that increase machinery availability, reduce operating costs, and improve safety. More information is available at www.iac-online.com.