Sentry Technology Grows Customer Base For SmartTrack™

Ronkonkoma, New York, October 10, 2006 -- Sentry Technology Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: SKVY) announced today that during the month of September orders were received for SentryVision® SmartTrack™ traveling CCTV systems from 8 large customers in 6 countries on 3 continents. In total, September orders for all products and services were in excess of $1,800,000. The systems will be used to manage both theft and operations in stores and distribution centers. SmartTrack™ uses patented technology to transmit video images from two pan, tilt and zoom cameras traveling along an aluminum rail mounted on the ceiling. The camera carriage travels at speeds of up to 13 feet per second and provides unobstructed views of people, goods and processes. The HipTV™ wireless, handheld device allows the operator full command and control of the traveling camera system while walking a facility.

“In the past, SmartTrack™ sales were concentrated with a few customers and with one very large U.S. customer in particular,” said Peter L. Murdoch, President and CEO of Sentry Technology Corporation. “We are pleased to see a growing base of orders for SmartTrack™ that, combined with increases in our library security sales, is creating a foundation on which to grow our business.”

Sentry Technology Corporation designs, manufactures, sells and installs a complete line of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) solutions, Electro-Magnetic (EM) and RFID based Library Management systems as well as Radio Frequency (RF) and Electro-Magnetic (EM) EAS systems. The CCTV product line features SentryVisionâ, SmartTrack, a proprietary, patented traveling Surveillance System. The Company’s products are used by libraries to secure inventory and improve operating efficiency, by retailers to deter shoplifting and internal theft and by industrial and institutional customers to protect assets and people. For further information, please visit our website at www.sentrytechnology.com.

This press release may include information that could constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any such forward-looking statements may involve risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any future results encompassed within the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include those matters disclosed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

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