Frost & Sullivan's 2005 Product Innovation Award Goes to Xsilogy28 January 2005
Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Wireless Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks, selected Xsilogy, Inc., as the recipient of the 2005 Product Innovation Award. Xsilogy is a division of SYS Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of engineering, management and information technology services and solutions to industrial and U.S. government customers. Xsilogy receives the award for its development of SensorWorX(TM) - a first-of-its-kind suite of frameworks and data integration tools to accelerate the development, deployment, and management of multi-protocol wireless sensor networks.
Every year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has demonstrated excellence in new products and technologies within its industry. It acknowledges the recipient company's innovation and launch of a broad line of emerging products and technologies.
Established in 1999, Xsilogy is a leading provider of machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless sensor network technologies for commercial, government, and industrial applications. In a relatively short period, Xsilogy has successfully deployed over 100 sites with a combined total of more than 4,000 continuous monitoring sensors under management.
Xsilogy's SensorWorX framework provides tools to assemble customized sensor network applications and easily integrate them with legacy systems at a fraction of the cost and time that would otherwise be incurred.
"SensorWorX enables the seamless integration of standard IT technologies, such as local area networks and Web services, with wireless industrial sensors and related industrial automation equipment, thereby providing truly ubiquitous wireless sensor networks capable of spanning across the corporate enterprise," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Hrishikesh Bidwe.
On a broad level, the SensorWorX architecture has three main components: SensorWorX Sensor Modules; SensorWorX Network and Applications Appliances; and XIS(TM) Web client software for device configuration, data visualization, network management, and alarming.
The SensorWorX Sensor Module is a small battery-powered device that integrates one or more analytical sensors (such as pH, temperature, flow, voltage, vibration, or level), with an industry standard wireless transmitter such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or Zigbee. The module framework supports dynamic installation of new applications and firmware updates and achieves 90 percent code re-use, which significantly reduces development time and risk for new sensor applications. The module incorporates embedded 'intelligence' and signal conditioning firmware to detect critical events, eliminate redundant data, and significantly reduce communications overhead.
SensorWorX Network Appliances are comprised of multi-protocol network aggregators and application servers, which form the backbone of the company's enterprise infrastructure. Embedded database, XML protocols, and Web services are employed extensively to facilitate the integration of wireless sensors and industrial process control systems with IT networks.
XIS, a reference for Extensible Information System, is a patent-pending and award winning technology that integrates with SensorWorX Modules and Appliances to support the manipulation and visual display of data from any source on any operating system. XIS, based on the Java platform, removes all boundaries between users and information. This enables the users to exploit data from any source on the fly, "just-in-time integration," and to reach into information residing outside of their environment.
"XIS technology, thus enables organizations to operate more effectively in a competitive environment by linking diverse tasks, applications, operating systems, protocols, and a complex mix of databases and protocols," notes Bidwe.
SensorWorX products, development tools, and XIS clients are expected to be utilized by original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners to rapidly develop customized applications and to easily integrate them with legacy systems at a fraction of the cost and time that would otherwise be incurred.
In short, the SensorWorX solution is a truly innovative product in the wireless sensor network space and for its development, Xsilogy is the deserving recipient of the 2005 Award for Product Innovation.
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Source: Business Wire
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