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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'>The LiftStar™ System from CrosStar will save you money six important ways: </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>• </FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'><B>LiftStar™ Provides the management tools needed for Lift Station maintenance cost reduction</B></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>.</FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:12pt;'> </FONT><FONT style='font-size:12pt;'> By providing the information you need to be informed not only when things break down, but also alerting you of potential problems with LiftStar’s Intelligent Alarming. Weekly and Monthly Reports provide, at a glance, information on how well your system has been operating. Event Log and Current Alarm displays give you instant indication of the trouble spots in your system. The integral preventive maintenance system can automatically schedule maintenance work based on station operation and calendar dates to keep your lift stations operating problem free. A historical database provides system lifetime pumping information to your civil engineer for flow analysis to allow you to plan for the growth of your collection system, instead of being surprised that you have out grown it. </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>• </FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'><B>LiftStar™ Provides large Initial Investment cost savings over standard SCADA and full-feature Dialer Systems</B></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>.</FONT><FONT style='font-size:12pt;'> Per Lift Station, the LiftStar LS1000 installed price is less that one third the cost of a typical radio telemetry remote unit, and less than one half of either a system consisting of telephone telemetry remotes or telephone dialers. Please see our <A class=s2 HREF="liftstar_000014.htm">LiftStar System Cost Comparison Chart</A> for details. </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'>But the real savings is that LiftStar does not requires a dedicated computer system with expensive SCADA or Human-Machine Interface (HMI) software and the huge cost of "configuring" the software to your system requirements. That type of computer system alone can cost between $25,000 to $50,000 depending on the size of your system and how much customization is required to match your needs. LiftStar has no initial investment costs for a dedicated computer system and no configuration cost. And even if you need to purchase a computer to use with LiftStar, a $1000 personal computer from the local electronics store would be perfect. </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>• </FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'><B>LiftStar™ Provides large Lifetime System cost savings</B></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>.</FONT><FONT style='font-size:12pt;'> The true measure of the cost of any system is the total costs incurred over the operational life of the system, typically 10 to 15 years. At ten years, LiftStar will only cost 40% of what you would spend on a radio telemetry based SCADA system or a full-feature dialer system. Over 80% savings over a telephone telemetry based SCADA system! These are real calculable savings that will enhance your yearly budget! A LiftStar system can cost as little as $180 per station per year over a ten year system life span. Plus <A class=s2 HREF="liftstar_000015.htm">CrosStar’s Limited Lifetime warranty</A> on the LiftStar LS1000 units provide additional value. And LiftStar requires none of the expensive SCADA supplier mandated software upgrades that seem to come out every few years to keep the computer system operating. Please see our <A class=s2 HREF="liftstar_000014.htm">LiftStar System Cost Comparison Chart</A> for details. </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>• </FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'><B>LiftStar™ Provides large SCADA system features and functions</B></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>.</FONT><FONT style='font-size:12pt;'> Some of the many LiftStar features include Real-Time Event Logging, Current Alarm Display, System Overview screen, detail station information, Weekly and Monthly Pump Cycle and Run Time Reports, Preventive Maintenance System, Accumulated Historical Database, Intelligent Alarm Detection, and easy to setup and use On-Call Duty Roster for Alarm Notification. All provided over the Internet from CrosStar’s Secure Central Computer System. Manage your system from any Internet enabled computer. On-Call Duty personnel are notified of new alarm conditions by pager, mobile text messaging devices, and /or cellular telephone (each operator can be setup with a different type of device and calling number). With <A class=s2 HREF="liftstar_00000f.htm">CrosStar's StarView software</A>, a local Event Printer can be setup in your office to provide continuous-form hard copy of all alarms and other note worthly events that occur in your system. </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>• </FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'><B>LiftStar™ Provides a large degree of System Scalability</B></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>.</FONT><FONT style='font-size:14pt;'> </FONT><FONT style='font-size:12pt;'> CrosStar’s LiftStar System will save both small utilities with only a couple of lift stations to large city utilities with hundreds of stations real money. LiftStar’s features can be mixed and match, with you only paying for the functions being used. And you can change the selected features anytime, per station! This allows you to match large critical stations with the intensive monitoring functions required, but gives you the cost savings of using more basic monitoring for your smaller, less critical stations. </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>• </FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'><B>LiftStar™ Provides Ease of Future Expansion</B></FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:14pt;'>.</FONT><FONT style='color:#804000;font-size:12pt;'> </FONT><FONT style='font-size:12pt;'> Just have the supplier of the new station provide space for the installation of a LiftStar LS1000 or have them integrate it in their control panel at their factory for you. You are no longer limited in having the original system provider sell you the new unit, at inflated locked in "Adder" pricing. </FONT></DIV>
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<FONT style='font-size:12pt;'>And in less than ten minutes after installation the new station will be integrated in to your LiftStar system. No more waiting and paying for the SCADA supplier to come and install the “Software Changes” they require with every new station. </FONT></DIV>
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