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A.U.G. Signals Ltd. (AUG) is excited to announce its TRITON Intelligent Water Surveillance™ has been selected to monitor drinking water at APEC 2014 in Beijing this November. The APEC 2014 Economic Leaders’ Meeting (AELM) will be held at Beijing’s scenic Yanqi Lake, located in Yanqi Township, Huairou District.

The conference venues by Yanqi Lake were designed to support the ideals of low carbon, pro-environment, scientific and technological innovation. More than 70 world-leading ecological technologies, including AUG’s TRITON, have been adopted to realize 100% clean energy use, solar-heated water use, hazard-free treatment of household waste, recycling of kitchen waste, sewage treatment, implementation of soil and water conservation plans, and ecological embankment of water bodies.

AUG’s TRITON Intelligent Water Surveillance™ provides the world’s most sensitive, accurate and fast-response solution in real-time continuous drinking water monitoring. Using the most advanced online water quality sensors, superior spectrophotometer and signal processing technologies, TRITON empowers government authorities and water facilities to preventively manage any contamination events, effectively protecting public health, meeting World Health Organization (WHO) standards and avoiding potential economic losses.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, or APEC, is the premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. It was established in 1989 to support sustainable economic development and prosperity for the region and to strengthen the Asia-Pacific community.

AUG supports APEC’s goals to foster free and open trade and investment to help economies grow and create greater opportunities for international trade. As an innovative technology developer, AUG believes APEC is instrumental in creating positive economic and technical cooperation across the Asia-Pacific community and around the world.

For more information about APEC, visit http://www.apec-china.org.cn/en/index.htm.

On June 23, 2014, Mr. Zhao Xueming, chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Tianjin sub-Council (CCPIT Tianjin) met with the business delegation of A.U.G. Signals Ltd. (AUG). Briefing the delegation on the current state of development of Tianjin and the surrounding area, Mr. Zhao said the city expects AUG and other Canadian high-tech enterprises to conduct business in Tianjin, positively contributing to the city’s future development of advanced technologies.

Dr. George A. Lampropoulos, President and CEO of AUG, expressed his appreciation for CCPIT Tianjin’s promotional efforts with AUG’s TRITON Intelligent Water Surveillance system in the Tianjin market. Dr. Lampropoulos also looks forward to possibly integrating TRITON into the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city to further boost AUG’s cooperation with its Chinese counterparts.

CCPIT Tianjin’s promotion of AUG’s TRITON system began in 2013. Through TRITON’s proven performance via testing in three facilities across the Tianjin Binhai New Area, CCPIT Tianjin will also continue to assist AUG and further promote TRITON’s general use across Tianjin.

For more information, visit the CCPIT website at
http://www.ccpit-tj.org/new_maoyi_en/inside_details.asp?c1=56&number_id=2488

Toronto, June 16, 2014: The AUG Signals website has been restored fully following a malicious attack. Some of the pages were disfigured or their content removed and weblinks broken so that navigation was not possible. This has since been fixed.

Some of you may have faced issues using the website during the outage and restoration. AUG Signals apologizes for the inconvenience.

If you have any questions or concerns, or suggestions for improvement, contact us atinfo@augsignals.com

On May 20, 2014, AUG Signals hosted a public demonstration of its new Triton Intelligent Water Surveillance™ Online Drinking Water Monitoring System in London Ontario. The demonstration included a successful challenge test of Triton’s real-time early warning detection capabilities for heavy metals in municipal drinking water at the parts-per-billion (ppb) level.

Triton is a water quality monitoring and early warning system that currently operates successfully at seven (7) water pumping stations across London’s water distribution network. Triton provides online access to real-time water quality information on a 24/7 basis. It has high detection and contaminant recognition accuracy, with sensitivity that exceeds Health Canada and World health Organization standards. This technology provides unprecedented security for city drinking water by eliminating the risk of missed contaminations that may occur during the intervals between conventional manual sampling and laboratory tests.

Guests in attendance included the, Mayor of London, Ontario, Canada, city councillors, city operations and management officials as well as Ontario Government Ministries of Economic Development, Trade and Employment (MEDTE) and Ministry of Research and Innovation (MRI), the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA), the Burlington Economic Development Corporation, Keewaytinook Okimakanak (KO) First Nation and the media to witness this innovative technology that has the potential to significantly improve Ontario’s water safety and security.

Above: AUG Signals President and CEO, Dr. George A. Lampropoulos (far left), speaks to guests, including the Mayor of London, Ontario (far right), at an on-site demonstration of Triton on May 20, 2014.

For further information, please contact Dr. Eric Morris

AUG Signals and the Ontario Clean Water Agency (OCWA) have signed a partnership agreement for Canadian sales and distribution of continuous water quality monitoring systems using conventional sensors and UV/Visible/Near InfraRed (NIR) spectroscopy.

OCWA is involved in the operation of water treatment and waste water management facilities across Ontario. As a trusted source of authoritative information on systems, standards and processes for water treatment, waste water management, and related business process and technology innovation, OCWA is also involved in ongoing collaborations with public and private sector agencies and organizations, including governments, educational institutions and academic research facilities in Ontario and other Canadian provinces. OCWA also plays a key role in fostering collaboration among Canadian based organizations and those of other jurisdictions, such as MEKOROT, Israel’s national water company.

For further information about OCWA or to contact a sales agent, please visit http://www.ocwa.com/en/contact.

AUG Signals has signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (UofT) and Peking University’s College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering to commercialize new air quality monitoring products. The agreement also includes Wuhan Tianhong Instruments Co. Ltd, a developer and manufacturer of environmental monitoring equipment in China.

The initial focus of the partnership will be to develop and commercialize a portable air monitoring sensor network, incorporating a novel bioaerosol sensor and a low-cost multi-parameter array to generate valuable air quality data from Toronto and Beijing, supporting the growth of Ontario’s clean tech industry in domestic and international markets.

For further information about this partnership, please contact Ms. Xia Liu.

The Canadian Space Agency’s Class Grant & Contribution Program to support research, awareness and learning in space science and technology has awarded a contract to AUG Signals for the development of a novel technology to assess crop growth stages by enhancing and integrating RADARSAT-2 (RS2) and TerraSAR-X (TSX) fully polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) data with RapidEye multispectral electro-optical data.

This technology will enable growers to proactively prevent disease, increase yields, and enhance long-term planning. Current agricultural practices rely heavily on time-consuming site visits, which can delay responses to potential threats and limit the extent of data that can be acquired for large tracts of land. There is high potential to maximize the use of satellite data to acquire comprehensive crop information quickly, automatically, and with high accuracy, to better manage large areas. Moreover, as many crops are susceptible to diseases and infestations during the narrow windows of specific growth stages, the estimation of crop growth stages, phenology and location is vital in order to identify which fields are at risk and when.

The goal of this project is to increase utilization of RS2 data by developing the capability to combine RADARSAT with multiple satellite data for crop growth stage estimation. This technology proof-of-concept will support the development of a commercial product that will enable end users in the agriculture industry to monitor crop stages more quickly and effectively than currently possible, reducing the need for site visits. This will help farmers to:

• Improve crop rotation planning by using multi-year EO data, resulting in better decomposition of past infected areas, healthier crops and more profitable yields
• Enhance product management and risk assessment for field surveys, agricultural industries operating in any environment, at any scale, and crop farming for export

AUG Signals specializes in signal, image and data processing, multi sensor data fusion/ integration, with extensive expertise in data processing for InfraRed, electro-optical and SAR. AUG Signals’ data processing, multi sensor data integration and remote sensing expertise includes work sponsored by government agencies and departments, in particular the Department of National Defence, Natural Resources Canada and the Canadian Space Agency. The company offers an extensive suite of image processing services and products for military and non-military customers across the globe.

For more information, please contact the Project Manager, Dr. Ting Liu

Ottawa, June 2012: Dr. Lampropoulos, President & CEO of AUG Signals, has been inducted as a fellow to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) in a ceremony at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum earlier today.

CAE was established in 1987 as an independent and non-profit organization dedicated to serve the nation in engineering-related matters. CAE fellow members include many of the country’s most accomplished engineers, who have showecased their commitment and dedication to the delivery of advanced scientific solution to Canada and its enterprises.

For more information about the CAE, please visit their website: www.acad-eng-gen.ca.

Ottawa, May 2012: Dr. George Lampropoulos, CEO of AUG Signals, was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his dedicated service to his peers, community and Canada. This is following Dr. Lampropoulos’s nomination by the Conference of Defence Associations (CDA).

February 2012: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper witnesses Beijing signing ceremony as part of official visit, sponsored by the 5th Canada-China Business Forum.

*Above: Dr. George Lampropoulos of AUG Signals (third from left) and Mr. Changshou Lin of Long Yu Tian Da Mining Investment Co. Ltd. (second from left) at the signing ceremony.