Cyan offers flexible solutions for the remote monitoring and control of lights, energy meters and industrial telemetry.
Cyan's solutions are based on a comprehensive standard product portfolio of RF based gateways and nodes.
Metering: Gas, Electricity, Water
Lighting: Street, Tunnel, Architectural,
Industrial Telemetry: Process control, Thermo eco telemetry, Weather

Pre-close update, said:
That its "decisive action and substantial cost cutting" leaves the company in a strong position for 2010.
It has spent much time and effort in supporting prospective customers, with volume order confirmations expected in the new year.

Future prospects
Has successfully secured and maintained key partnerships, most recently with Future Electronics Inc, a top three worldwide electronic component distributor with divisions focussed on metering and lighting products.

Has successfully completed two equity placings to new and existing investors during the period, raising a total of 3.0 million of new money to fund working capital requirements to support customer trial orders and partnerships.

Directors Buying:
Over 4 Millions share were bought by directors during this month

For all this motives the shares at 1.15p are worth taking some aboard

lectricity Metering Networks
Electricity utilities and meter manufacturers are investigating ways of introducing Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to their businesses.

These technologies can significantly improve the information made available to energy service providers, including detailed energy usage profiles, diagnostic and status data from metering devices, and instantaneous usage from industrial and domestic consumers. This in turn helps to reduce the cost of taking readings, and prevent financial loss due to the fraudulent use of supplies. Load balancing can also be improved when information on instantaneous usage is provided. In addition consumers can benefit from improved information on their energy usage patterns by making better use of off-peak tariffs.

Cyan offers wireless Point-to-Point (P2P) and Meshing solutions for electricity AMR/AMI. Cyan's P2P solution use its ISM frequency band RF nodes (433/470/868/915/865 MHz). These allow a handheld meter reading device to directly communicate with each meter. Cyans meshing solution uses the same RF nodes to connect meters to a GPRS Gateway. A CyNet mesh network is formed around the gateway, which can be used to collate energy profiles, receive instantaneous readings, and send tariff updates to the meter. Cyan's GPRS Gateways can automatically monitor the mesh network and collect meter readings. Each GRPS Gateway has a RF node to connect to the local mesh network and GPRS modem for remote collection and monitoring from the backhaul system

Gas Metering Networks
A rise in energy prices and increasing focus on environmental issues has led to the demand for energy efficiency. As a result governments are legislating for the provision of Automated Meter Reading with a long term plan to move to fully Automated Metering Infrastructure

Cyan offers a wireless gas meter network solution that enables city wide deployment of wireless gas meters. The network uses Cyan's Cy-Net low power mesh network over ISM band (433/470/868/915/865 MHz). Each gas meter becomes an RF node on the network communicating with other RF nodes as well as mains powered concentrator gateways. The concentrators, Cyan's GPRS Gateways, automatically monitor the mesh network and collect readings from the meters.

Each GRPS Gateway has a RF node to connect to the local mesh network as well as GPRS for backhaul to remote central collection and monitoring system.

Industrial
Cyan's range of gateways and radio nodes can be used in a wide variety of monitoring and control applications. The RF nodes have on board resources such as Analogue to Digital converters with 12-bit resolution, digital inputs and outputs, timers and counters.

These can be used with external circuitry to sense conditions such as temperature, humidity, and movement. The combination of these resources, the Cy-Net radio mesh, and GPRS gateway can then be used to report telemetry to a central point, and/or send control signals to each remote node.

Street and Tunnel Lighting
With the rise of energy pricing and new regulation, operators of public lighting systems are driven to reduce operating costs. These reductions can be achieved by remotely controlling each lamp and managing its brightness according to need and by decreasing maintenance requirements by detecting faults remotely.

Cyan's technologies and products provide a complete control and communications network and user interface to lighting manufacturers. This complete system solution allows lighting manufacturers to manufacture and sell RF controlled street and tunnel lighting systems.

From the "UPS" thread ......

KEEP an EYE

CYAN 0.96p ( 0.92 / 1.00 )
large volume and moving higher, two large trades showing on the ticker, could be an overhang being cleared.

Thanks for the BBC Article (Cyan also host similar descriptors), but I fear this is tackling the issue from the wrong end.
(((similar thoughts go to Torotrak)))
Let's face it, UK Councils can't repair roads (via contractor), so little chance they'll install new fangled lighting networks. It might be possible in a new street, for the usual "GreenWash" reasons, but this will be farmed off to a supplier and b***r the cost (esp. since taxpayers/Regional-Government will foot the Bill).

Historically most street lights had a timer (1-per) this contained a clockwork mechanism so "time" wasn't lost if the power went off. Modern ones will be electronic (with a rechargable battery).. However, in addition some have photocells (a circular "spike" on the top can be seen...this switches on if it gets dark - and prevents waaste when it gets light, early morning. I expect this is connected to the timer so as to provide local savings depending on the weather.
There was a system that is probably extinct now, whereby pulses were fed into the Grid and this could control street lights...but it was a "blunt instrument" with many possibilities for failure. Also many folk don't like pulses being fed into their houses, since the pulses go everywhere.....it's difficult to stop.
((IMHO it is this issue (and tech, too), that prevents meters being read by"readinig" the power-line.
Inter rivalry also kills off the notion that Water/Gas/Electric co's share the same network....so, don't even suggest it!))
I think the situation with CYAN's controller is somewhat similar - there is no-one that can impliment the technology, gain Approval of both the light-fitting industry AND the local authorities (as well as the local supply company)....because they have vested interests in leaving things as they are. Also there is considerable risk, since only a start-up Co would enter this niche market. Sure the likes of Siemens could but they'd want to use their own controllers (not Cyan's) and use the techniques alread in use on the Continent.
Individual local authorities would never see the benefit of this technology and "who would run it?" - it would need electronics folk that understood the system - which means they are very powerful, being few in number.
I suspect also that the unit cost (per lamp) will be high and, using current technology, the brightness on the road will be somewhat less than traditional luminaries. It's the same argument as switching off (some) lights after midnight - the few accidents/robberies feature large in the Public-mind.

I don't hold CYAN, I'd like to; but each time I look it's just too much of a yes/no risk issue. They may be taken-over for their contacts/database, but there are plenty of other fabless outfits that can provide similar tech and who are much more likely to be in business in 2020. For the reasons suggested CYAN meter-reading prospects are somewhat similar, but what do I know ? - ( er, well I've not lost any money on this faller to date).
Now, if there was a Act of Parliament...then there might be a feeding frenzy as Large Players try to edge out Cyan, whatever their technical expertise...etc.

As a "mad-man"
I'd suggest they install this on trunk roads, so the lighting can be adjusted to suit the traffic demand, dangerous junctions, road conditions (rain/snow/ice). This might justify the marginal cost on safety grounds - and the "savings" would be over a considerable time - pretty much the same as the new road is justified. The potential to install in tunnels is valid - but it's a tiny market and savings are unlikely to be much, unless the tunnel isn't in use for hours at a time; but such tunnels don't exist.
er IMHO. However, CYAN needs a partner, for they don't have the necessary "power" expertise and installers. . . . Invensys anyone...?
Good luck to all who sail in her.

Nice one about to take off!!!!!!!!111

On the move up since

2 directors buying 5,500,000 million shares between them last Friday.


01 October 2010
The Company announces that it has entered into agreements with each of its
directors to issue them with ordinary shares of 0.2 pence each ("Ordinary
Shares"). Further to the Company's circular dated 1 September 2010 and the
announcement referring to the block listing on 16 September 2010, the Company
confirms that it has issued 556,690 Ordinary Shares to Kenn Lamb and 310,444
Ordinary Shares to John Read at a price of 0.9p each. John Read and Simon Smith
have also today subscribed for 2,777,777 Ordinary Shares and 2,777,778 Ordinary
Shares respectively at a price of 0.9p each.

Starting to climb...so you can imagine with some orders what the sp could do.....and with directors buying, you can be sure that there are plenty in the pipeline needing confirmation....

Its a winner - a multibagger

this has been the dog of my portfolio for many years have they actually got any orders ?? no idea how they keep raising money to keep afloat still got about 100k of these be nice to get 2-3p for them one day

Its a winner today and yesterday

Are directors buying or taking instead of a salary as cash is tight ?
The clue is in the issuing of shares rather than the buying of shares

The directors have bought shares and are also taking shares in lieu. It's a very risky buy but I hold some as they must have great faith in their product and it's now very much in their interest to get the sp rising steadily. They are in the right markets and the rumours are that orders are about to come in from the cos who have been trialling the product maybe an Indian order. One good contract signed could be start of a transformation and I think that's why the directors are putting everything into keeping the co afloat! risky but promising --research well!!

A good contract would double the sp.

An initial order...the first of many I suppose....good start....

looks like slipped into the dog mode again ....

It's been a dog since it was floated by Barry Muncaster, aka MDX and a few others.

Dir. purchases below 50k, IMHO say Stay-away....this recent purchase was 5k - DYOR
ptholden are you 1)likening MDX--CYAN - or is/was there 2)shared Direcorship?
(FWIW I was always suspicious of MDX, couldn't sell their film during BSE-crisis)
I'll agree CYAN goes Woof! -but it's still here, and whilst the Co is always "hoping" I don't believe they've shouted excessivly, thereby raising punters' hopes.....this co is dependent upon this "meter-reading" being rolled out....such things are dreams of energy-execs (since 1970's) but it's always been too expensive. Now we have proved that Gogl can get data by driving-by, so it's possible for "New meter-man" to drive by -OR- use the phone network text-msg facility.... this infrastructure is here...all that's needed is the willingness (and meter investment)
That's the stumbling block, IMHO =- in these times will the Public accept a hike (so power-Co's can make more profit?), to pay for the new kit?.
I doubt it, so there is still a Wall of Issues - and this Co is pretty quiet about the roll-out.....or, did I miss the Big Push?

If I did, then so did Dirs...otherwise, why not put in 50k at these low-levels...?

Hangon

Muncaster has either floated or been involved in the flotation of a quite few AIM comps, I don't think any of them have survived to provide the longer term investor a return; in fact entirely the opposite, CYAN is about the only one still listed. Anyone who got into this pile of dog poo at flotation will have lost the majority of their cash.

Could be a star of 2011.....I'm expecting a lot more orders like that....

That is what they need orders and then more orders with good margins .......


Cyan wins China public lighting control order

Cyan has won an initial order for wireless monitoring and control of outdoor public lighting in China.

The initial order is for 10,000 modules, and installation will start after the Chinese New Year in Q1 2011.

The customer's initial project requires the replacement of 200,000 street lights in a single city and the installation rate is expected to exceed 10,000 units per month by Q4 2011.

The end customer is a large established Chinese lighting manufacturer which says it has already won, or expects to win, contracts in three further cities, albeit for smaller projects.

China cracked also India--the potential here is obviously massive imo. I held on here hoping the co would survive, the bod put money in and took shares in lieu so backed their technology----looks as though it's soon to pay off! next year a good one I hope. DYOR!