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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff   | Abstract: | This Company to Watch specializes in wireless networks. |
OMNITROL Networks Inc., founded in 2004 to address the problem of lost assets along the assembly line, is the developer of OMNITROL, an application network appliance that combines business intelligence and real-time operational visibility. The proliferation of wireless devices, sensor-based and Wi-Fi networks, and RFID has spread intelligence throughout the factory, and OMNITROL acts as an integration device to reconcile work orders and parts, and track material through production. "The next real-time process in manufacturing is assembly," says company founder and CEO Raj Saksena. The intelligent edge device, as the OMNITROL product is described, is an emerging category that mixes new applications with mature architecture technologies, he says. OMNITROL includes two layers: A multiprocessor network appliance, including real-time application servers and database; and the Edge Applications and Services Engine (EASE) that performs workflow and edge service creation, business process integration, and device and service management provisioning. [Click to continue] |