eił Enters Commercial Partnership with Schneider Electric

Montvale,NJ & Paris, FRANCE, April 18, 2006 – ei3, a provider of real-time secure device access and web-enabled data acquisition and reporting software, today announced a partnership with Schneider Electric, a global leader in electricity and automation management, to expand the capabilities of its existing remote access and monitoring services division, Senside.

All Senside services will now be provided directly by ei3 to current customers. Moving forward, ei3 and Schneider Electric will work together to identify opportunities where remote services can deliver value.

ei3 will benefit from this partnership beyond increasing its customer base. The integration of Senside broadens ei3’s product line by adding new remote access solutions and further provides ei3 with global distribution.

In addition to a variety of remote access solutions, ei3 and Schneider Electric will offer a suite of productivity tools to OEMs and their customers, which include monitoring, alarming, disaster recovery, recipe management, and downtime tracking. Delivered as hosted applications, ei3's services minimize expenses, while providing new ways for manufacturers to maximize output, quality and performance.

Brett Smith, CEO of ei3, commented, "Our engineering services provide Senside customers with enhanced speed and enhanced security in their remote access solution so that OEM technicians can provide service faster and safer. This inevitably will lead to reduced machine downtime which accordingly will increase each machine owner’s productivity, adding money directly to their bottom line."

With little to no upfront cost, the return-on-investment for ei3's services can easily be quantified by comparing speed of problem resolution to cost of downtime. Quickly and easily deployed, Senside customers will realize immediate improvements in productivity and uptime from ei3's 24x7 technical support augmentation and software solutions.

"ei3 and their extensive network connectivity solutions enable our customers to gain high-speed, full machine troubleshooting access to any machine in the world from any location in the world at any time," says Leon Chabannes for Schneider Electric. "Also, with ei3, OEMs can provide their end users a number of software tools to acquire data that can help boost machine efficiencies and operations."

About Senside

Senside is Schneider Electric’s wholly owned subsidiary ,dedicated to remote access and monitoring services.

About Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric is the world’s power and control specialist. Through its world-class brands, Merlin Gerin, Square D and Telemecanique, Schneider Electric anticipates and satisfies its customers’ requirements in the residential, building, industry and energy and infrastructure markets. With 88,670 employees and operations in 130 countries, Schneider Electric generated sales of €11.7 billion in 2005 through 13,000 distributor outlets.

For more information about Schneider Electric, please visit www.schneider-electric.com.

About ei3

ei³'s strength is connecting people & systems to machines & devices, enabling remote service and real-time information. ei³ bridges the distance between OEMs and their customers, facilitating increased customer service, enhanced customer relationships and a new, online value proposition. In addition to a remote service platform, ei³ offers customer-driven productivity tools to enhance equipment performance, both to OEMs and directly to enterprise manufacturers.