Octave Technology Targets Emerging Market Opportunity
Begins development of wireless sensor network middleware product - OCTAVEX

Ellicott City, MD - April 4, 2005 - Octave Technology, Inc. has identified a developing and growing opportunity within the Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN) market. With most WSN innovation to date being focused primarily on the hardware and embedded software, Octave is focusing on a significant gap in the delivery and management of sensor data. Octave has begun the development of OCTAVEX, a middleware framework that will bridge the gap between wireless sensor hardware and a company’s existing IT infrastructure.

“This marks a significant change in our focus” says Rick Morani, President of Octave Technologies. “While we will continue to support our existing AutoID products, the WSN market has tremendous growth potential over the next five years. We view this as an emerging market with without a significant industry leader in the middleware space. We intend to be that leader.”

OCTAVEX, expected for beta release in the third quarter of 2005, will utilize the latest in Web Services technology to provide a reliable middleware framework that delivers real-time wireless sensor data to existing IT systems. This enterprise quality software product will be built using industry standard protocols, such as XML & SOAP, to ensure a system that is platform independent, easily scalable, and highly redundant. The web services architecture will eliminate a single point of failure and offers a number of critical features such as authentication and encryption. The OCTAVEX Core Services will provide critical business logic “out of the box” through components such as a Rules Service and Alerting Service. The OCTAVEX platform will be a powerful framework alone or easily customized for specific applications through reusable software libraries, exposed interfaces, and open APIs
 

About Octave Technology
Octave Technology Inc. is software product company whose applications allow for the simple and successful deployment of RFID and Auto-ID technologies.  Octave Technology's solutions utilize various Auto-ID technologies, including contact memory, bar coding and RFID to help organizations manage their physical assets and technical infrastructure.  Coupled with Octave software, virtually any industry or organization can view and utilize their asset data in the most effective and efficient manner possible.

Founded in 2003 and born out of a joint venture between leading technology and engineering firms, Octave Technology is deploying Auto-ID enabled systems in a wide variety of industries. For more information, visit www.octavetech.com