SCB Prospectus - Announcements - Bursa Malaysia

Company No. 462648-V
6. BUSINESS OVERVIEW (CONT’D)
6.1.11 Brand Names, Patents, Trade Marks, Licenses, Technical Assistance
Agreements, Franchises and Other Intellectual Property Rights
As at the LPD, we have submitted our application to register the ‘Willowglen’
trademark with Perbadanan Harta Intelek Malaysia under Class 42. Save as
disclosed, our Group does not have any other registered intellectual property rights in
the form of patents, trademarks or designs. It is also not a party to any licensing
agreements.
6.1.12 Salient Terms of the Contracts/Arrangements on which Our Group is Highly
Dependent
6.1.13 R&D
There are no contracts/arrangements on which our Group is highly dependent as at
the LPD which have been entered into by us.
Our Group has launched our new series of hardware, the RTU4600 series, in the
second quarter of 2008. This series of RTU caters for projects that require low
input/output points as the communication gateway and will enable our Group to
reduce project cost and become more competitive. The RTU4600 is a RTU, or a
microprocessor controlled electronic device which interfaces feedback from the field
equipment to the SCADA systems by transmitting data to the system. The RTU4600
comes with a built-in I/O interface to obtain input from the field equipment.
Prior to the existence of RTU4600, the I/Os are usually connected to the Central
Processing Unit (“CPU”) to process these data. However, as the cost of CPUs are
higher, it is not justifiable to use a CPU unit when there is a small amount of I/Os
involved in a project. CPUs are more suitable to be used in a project when there are
many I/Os or field instruments required.
By using the RTU4600, the inputs from the I/O are processed by the microprocessors
into usable data, and hence there is no need for CPUs anymore. This has
successfully reduced the cost for projects where there are low numbers of I/Os by
approximately 20% to 30%.
The RTU4600 series have been deployed to different industrial projects with its web
application and SMS feature.
After the launch of SysLink 3.8, our Group continued to improve on this version of the
software by incorporating additional features to suit the needs and requirements of
different industries.
The enhanced version of SysLink that incorporated new features such as WebRTU,
SMS and OPC server (an industrial communication protocol) was released and
deployed to projects from October 2008.
Given the existing RTU series and SysLink, our Group is able to provide a complete
range of software and hardware products in SCADA system which includes the
following:-
Software products : SysLink (SCADA package)
Hardware products : RTU6000 series, RTU7000 series, RTU6500 series,
RTU4600 series and ISO-485 (RS485 isolator)
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