Nelson Ludlow
Analyst · Neuberger
Good morning, shareholders and investors, and good afternoon to our East Coast listeners. Let me introduce who we have on the call with us today. Our chairman, Admiral Mike Malone; and Director Woody McGee, are on the call. Also, our management team of Bill White, our CFO; Bonnie Ludlow, Senior Vice President and Director; Russ Embry, our Chief Technology Officer; and Mark Armstrong, our Senior Vice President for Sales, are joining me as well. The outline for today's call is to present the Q2 financials, to discuss our products and business plans for Q3 and the rest of 2013, and to allow an opportunity for the shareholders, for you to ask questions. Revenue for Q2 was about $1.72 million, which is well below Q2 for 2012, but above 5% growth from the previous quarter, Q1 of 2013. You may remember, 2012 was generally poor in revenue for the year as a whole, with the exception of a large TWIC program purchased by the Port of Hawaii, which was credited in Q2 of last year. We posted a loss on adjusted EBITDA of about $647k, and P&L was about $919k loss or $0.03 EPS loss, which was essentially identical and bottom line to Q1. So while the bottom line was flat and revenues were slightly up, the good news is that backlog was $1.14 million, which is up from the $782k the previous quarter, so up 46% over Q1. Even better news is that new bookings, and new bookings to me is one of the best indicators of future direction of the company, was $2.165 million, which was up from the $928k in Q1. So new bookings were up over 133%. Now some of you can see this company changing, so let me elaborate. First, the company is shifting focus away from the wireless space to focus on our strength, which is our identity systems. We will continue to do our enterprise wireless work, but we've shifted resources away from the previous Navy buoy program. I had projected this in a previous conference call, but we've enacted it. The security buoys, they have a long sales cycle. They often require foreign military sales. It's expensive to support a live working demo system. Now that the Navy contract has ended in 2012, we shifted our resources away from that program. While we still retain the intellectual property and the ability to manufacture buoys for future sales, management has purposefully focused its resources on the identity systems. Further, we've also cut costs. We closed our office in Washington, D.C. and reduced labor at all of our locations by nearly $1.0 million annualized. Most of this labor savings was started in late Q1 and during Q2. So the savings from that are expected to really show in Q3. We did not sacrifice sales and we did not sacrifice software development, but we did reduce costs. Further to aid cash flow, I want to mention that the Board of Directors deferred their board fees in Q1 and again in Q2. I deferred all of my salary as CEO in Q2 as well. When I returned as CEO late last year, I predicted that as we rebuild the pipeline and build revenue, that our cash flow would be the most difficult in the midsummer 2013 time frame. Therefore, the directors and management took steps to responsibly act and to repair when the board decided in early January to defer their board fees. I want to thank them for doing that. In accordance with accounting rules, the P&L, EBITDA and accounts payable showed these correctly as cost, as if the CEO salary and director fees were paid. And so, really, what it was is to help the cash flow. So while we're transitioning, we monitor cash closely. I looked at the cash position of the company just this morning and it is already above where we closed Q2. So it just takes some time to turn around a company, and in terms of sales, we had a better May than April and we had a better June than May. An indication to Q3 already showed that it's been likely better than Q2. However, we have to keep the effort up. We will continue to push on innovation, new products and strong customer support. Now this worked well for us as a company before and we emphasized these basic tenets now to grow and to keep that revenue. Most important is our new focus on recurring revenue stream, particularly Software as a Service or SaaS. Now we offer this service to our new customers, and over time, we'll be shifting our existing customers to this model as well. Customers pay a monthly or an annual fee to the services they use. So starting in July 1 of this year, we began offering this new Software as a Service or cloud computing for $99 a year per point or per device. We offered some discounts for high-volume purchasers. They get better services. Their applications interact directly with our servers. They always get the latest version of our software. We emphasize software over hardware, which gives us better margins. And this "pay as you go" method means an easier initial entry for customers, particularly if they purchase it via an OpEx expenditure instead of a CapEx. Not only is this a win-win for our customers and the company, but shareholders who'll find it provides a more predictable revenue model. I'd be happy to address any of our many products in Q&A, but let's talk about a few specific ones right now. Let's talk about the status of our wireless project, the new TWIC readers and our new release of our barZapp product. Then after that, let's discuss what the new products are in beta test right now and expected to be released later in 2013. This includes 2 new tablets, our law enforcement app, and a new product, and a completely, new market by adding Mexican driver's licenses. So let's talk wireless. The wireless team successfully completed this large wireless infrastructure himself in Western Washington on July 31. They worked hard, they did a good job and they're already working on 2 new wireless projects in Eastern Washington that we expect to be completed by the end of September. In the wireless market, it's a good transition work for the previous buoy team. There are several forecasting groups who said enterprise wireless in North America to grow at nearly 20% CAGR. So let's talk about identity systems, now TWIC. Just about a week ago, TSA announced their first sanction [ph] products by publishing the TSA Quality Technology List or what they call QTL. To receive the certification, a company must submit its product to an approved, independent third-party lab to conduct 140 rigorous tests required by TSA. I'm pleased that 2 of our products, both mobile TWIC readers, successfully passed all these tests and were published on the QTL list reports to purchase. As of today, we're the only mobile TWIC reader approved by Homeland Security. Just a couple of days ago, they added a TWIC reader by another company. We're the only -- the 3 of our products are the only ones on there. We're confident that we have a great product for several reasons: number 1, because we're sanctioned on the list. That's important that you be approved by TSA; number 2, our products scans TWIC cards, but it also scans military IDs and driver's licenses. That's what we call TWIC Plus; number 3, our product ties into the port's existing Physical Access Control System or a PACS. That's important because it means the ports can add in our new TWIC readers rather than have to replace their existing ID card system. We complement their existing PAC System, and we already integrate with such large PAC Systems as Lenel and AMAG; and last -- or number 4, let's say, our prices are very competitive. When the ports decide to buy, we're the logical choice. TSA has already been the hard part of requiring all the workers to take time off work to go to a registration center to do a background check, to pay $132 for the TWIC card. There's over 2.1 million TWIC cards already issued, and they belong to workers at 2,700 facilities in over 12,000 vessels. So the time is right for them to take this next step of adding the readers. That would help them take the world's smartest card, which is what Homeland Security call the TWIC card, to really become the world's smartest card, and you can't do that without a reader. You need the reader to validate your identity, to check the PIN, to check the fingerprints. They really need to go together. So how big is this market? Well on November 2012, DHS submitted a guidance called a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking or NPRM and issued that to all the ports. The government also held an Industry Day in April 15 for the TWIC reader developers and manufacturers that we attended. There's a lot of information in there, but they've identified 3 different groups. In Group A is a group that they're requiring TWIC readers. 532 facilities, 38 vessels that must have TWIC readers within 2 years of when this law is enacted. And there's another group called Group B, it's 642 facilities for TWIC readers are highly recommended by TSA and the Coast Guard. There's a third group that where they recommend them, but didn't say it's as strong a guidance as that. So just taking the first 2 groups, given these numbers of ports and typical TWIC purchases per port, this equates to a total available market of $160 million in sales and $17 million and reoccurring yearly. I'm very pleased to see new activity in this space. I give credit to Jim Orgill and others at TSA for pushing this forward. And just so you know, we've already -- we've had 5 purchases of TWIC readers by port throughout the whole country prior to their announcement. So people are already buying TWIC because they know that this program is coming. Let's talk barZapp. On July 1, so just a month ago, we released a new product called barZapp, which is focused on ID validation for age-related products, particularly alcohol purchases. The product runs on an iPhone. We have an Android product already in testing for an upcoming launch. We sell 2 versions, an introductory version for $1.99 app that is purchased from Apple's online App Store that can just be downloaded. The introductory version has limited features and can scan 10 driver's licenses a day. What I like about it, it's an excellent tool for people to show others, their boss, their coworkers, what this technology does. We also offer a professional version for subscription service for $19.95 a month. This offers unlimited scans. It offers other features that allows users to visually view sample IDs from appropriate state ID with the scan. In addition to checking for fake ID, it checks if it's valid, the person's age and records the minimal information to protect alcohol vendors from possibly fines and fees from law enforcement and Liquor Control Boards. So let's talk about the market. There are 6.2 million, approximately, alcohol servers in the United States. About 3.8 million are on-premises servers, often who must receive a special state training or certification to serve alcohol, and another 2.4 million off-premises servers such as liquor and convenience stores. So given the 6.2 million alcohol servers, this equates to a total available market of about $1.4 billion a year -- after late if they all purchased a $19.95 subscription. Potential customers, our bar, restaurant owners, chain restaurants, alcohol server-related organizations and convenience store operators, the State Liquor Control Board, particularly their training groups, as well as law-enforcement groups, also can use this product. I found it interesting that actually several police and law enforcements have already downloaded barZapp. To date, we have been selling it through the Apple's App Store. We've contacted 3 large alcohol server national associations, and we've started a media campaign of the product. And we've applied for trade and service marks. We plan to attend trade shows, meet with other national associations and we're even looking at possible value-added reseller bar program to help us with our barZapp code version. To date, we've sold around -- about 2,000 barZapp downloads via the Apple's App Store, and we have an additional handful of others that have already purchased yearly subscriptions. It's too early to provide any real meaningful evaluation or trend of the product, but we are pleased with how it is at the initial launch. We do plan to release an update for the software in September, adding some more features with improved privacy and security and update some new state driver's licenses that have recently changed. In Q4, we also expect to release the Android version. So I've mentioned before that we're releasing several new products, and you saw the TWIC reader and barZapp. But let's talk about some of the new products that are coming. One of those upcoming products are 2 new tablet products or tablet products that you can scan an ID card right through their built-in camera, just like we're doing with the cell phone. This will allow retailers to capture customer information, to improve that customer experience and to buy new products without waiting in line. Our platform will provide a mobile location for new credit card applications on mobile and on wirelesses. Tablets such as the Motorola ET1 and Apple's iPad are excellent platforms that retailers can better interact with customers. There are approximately -- so let's talk the market side. There's approximately 332 Tier 1 retailers, and we may do over $1 billion a year in revenue, varying from the low hundreds of numbers of stores to above 3,000 of stores within their chain. Given this number of stores and the typical number of tablets that a store could buy, this equates to a total available market of around $90 million a year for the software. Hardware will be additional. Devices will be used by the greeters, the line busting credit card approval and, bottom line, provides faster service. If you've ever walked into an Apple Store, you'll see that they have a greeter and they greet you with an iPad. This is what other retailers want to do, but they want to know who you are to better help you through that line. That's the product we're providing. We'll be providing the tablet as a purchase or via lease and using our ID-Check software for $99 per year for the device, with some discount again for very high-volume purchases. We have 1 retailer testing this in 20 stores in late August. Let's talk law enforcement. Our other cell phone app is for law enforcement to allow an FBI check to be run simply by scanning your driver's license right on their phone. This is an extension of our Defense ID product that we use in military bases. And it opens it up to a much broader market for all law enforcement and places it right on the Smartphone. So let's talk the size of that market. There is over 1.1 million law enforcement agents in the United States. We plan to provide this app under our SaaS or Software as a Service model for $99 per month per device to provide that link between the FBI's NCIT database and a cop's cell phone. Given that this 1.1 million law enforcement professionals in the United States just equates to a total available market of about $1.3 billion a year. We plan to issue this product on both the iPhone and the Android. So these products were aligned with our new focus on recurring revenue model. We are now able to offer a lower entry price for potential customers by reducing their upfront CapEx costs. Shifting to this recurring revenue model will serve to stabilize our revenue stream and provide a better service to our customers. So let's talk one other area that we mentioned in our press release this morning, and that's one that's very important to me, which is Mexican driver's licenses. We plan to release a new product which is basically adding an additional Mexican ID module to complement our U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses. In Mexico, there's 31 states, and their driver's licenses, already over 20 of them, are readable by the initial studies in the IDs that we have obtained. More and more of these 31 states are adding key readable zones every day. Some studies show that there's more than 11 million Mexican citizens living in the United States. Our banking customers have asked us for this product to scan Mexican ID cards in the United States. Our Motel 6 customers have asked us that we extend our ability for the growth of new hotels in Mexico. So both things are happening: Mexican IDs in the United States, as well as U.S. Canadian and Mexican IDs in a new market for us, which is Mexico. To me, those 2 things only make sense as the market we need to go after. So this means new business for us, all our reading IDs, including Mexican IDs, and allows us to expand into Mexico. So let's talk one more area that I've had several emails from shareholders. And this is about new NPR. We've had some good press over the last quarter, and let me just mention some briefly. In April, at the beginning of Q2, it was announced that the FBI received information concerning the Boston bombers from a fireworks company using our ID-Check software. For those of you who don't know, Intellicheck's ID-Check FastForm software scanned the driver's license of the elder of the 2 Boston bomber suspects, linking him to a purchase of mortar kits at a New Hampshire fireworks stores. He purchased fireworks for $200 in cash and because of the responsible company using our software, they scanned his driver's license and they recorded that information, which then provided a piece of evidence to the FBI. We were featured in 4 media outlets for the role our product played in helping identify the Boston bombers. For those on the call who have not seen the TV interviews, I would recommend you go to our website and you watch them. The links on our website under News, it's a great short story that explains what happened, but even perhaps more importantly, it also demonstrates the capability of our newer product. And we demoed barZapp, as well as our law enforcement app right there on the TV video. Recently, we were covered in Government Security News, and this is within the last week, regarding our 2 new TWIC readers being approved by TSA. This has already led to dozens of ports contacting us, helping us in our sales effort. Our barZapp product was launched in July 1, and we received press about this new product. We received press in USA Today College edition, Investor's Daily news, U.S. News and World Report. And we were mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, our press release. And we were covered on TV, hundreds of news articles. And 1 day alone, one of the press releases, announcing the new product was picked up in over 400 locations across North America. Now selling a product to consumers, which is somewhat different for us as a company, required good media coverage, in which that media led to this product reaching the top 3 paid for business apps on Apple Store based upon daily sales and at the close of July based on -- and they update it every day. We closed 2 days in a row as the #3 most downloaded paid for business app at Apple. We have more plan, including short product videos. We're working with targeted user groups, social media. We're going to keep up the efforts on the media. But I wanted people to know that we're doing a concerted effort on this. And the more people know of our products, the better for all of us. Bottom line, these products can save lives. Okay, let me shift in, and I know this kind of lengthy, but I wanted to take that opportunity to talk to you about our products and the size of the market. To me, as a shareholder, that's what matters to me, and that's why I wanted to spend the time on it. So let's just talk 3 administrative items in case there's some questions. Let's talk SEC. In early December, we notified shareholders that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating certain trades and activities concerning our stock. Recently, we had received several subpoenas from the SEC, and we fully cooperated with them and provided the information that they requested. The investigation does not involve any current employees, any board members or the company itself. Now I want to repeat that just to make sure, it does not involve any the employees, board members or the company itself. Our understanding is this process takes several months. And since we are not under investigation, we likely may not be notified of any of the results for their questions. That's exactly what we stated before. It's not affecting our day-to-day operations, and we have not had any requests for information for quite some time. So at this point, I will not be specifically calling out this issue in future calls unless we get something that's newsworthy. We do not expect to be contacted by the SEC on the outcome of their investigation since it does not involve us. So let's talk about board blackout period. We had a couple of questions on the last call. So we -- based upon a question by a shareholder on that last call, we notified shareholders via an 8-K filing on July 8 that after having a self-imposed blackout period for the directors and officers to trade stock for the last 2 quarters, the company presently intends to list this blackout on August 8, 2013. We're listing the blackout as consistent with the company's general policy to allow trades by directors and officers 48 hours after the announcement of quarterly and annually results. Of course, all the other rules about having insider information and all of that will still apply. But I wanted to address some of that questions we had in the last call. Third one is the S-3 filing. On July 16, we filed an S-3 or self-registration. Had we not filed it that week, our S-3 registration that has been in place for the last 3 years would have expired. It's essentially the same filing as the previous one. July 31, we did an amendment to it. It was just some very, very minor items that was recommended to us by legal and the SEC. So that happened on July 31. It's responsible for a public company to have this registration in place. So if or when these conditions warrant using it, it's already in place. Okay. With those out of the way, at this point, let's have Bill White, our CFO, give you more detail on the finances for Q1.