March 30, 2007 Ellicott City, MD - Octave Technology, Inc. (www.octavetech.com), a leader in wireless sensor software development and O&M Engineering Inc (www.omengineering.com), a systems integrator of building and industrial automation technologies, announced a partnership to drive the adoption of wireless sensor technology into the building automation market. O&M will market the OCTAVEX™ Wireless Sensor Framework as part of their development and integration platforms.

“Wireless sensing technology is the next big step in building automation” said Richard Warner, President of O&M Engineering. “The unique technology of the Universal Gateway within the OCTAVEX™ Framework allows companies to deploy any type of wireless sensor without concern for a specific protocol or standard. This flexibility gives our customers the ability to choose all the “best in breed” wireless hardware solutions but manage them through one underlying software framework.”

The OCTAVEX™ Framework can simultaneously support any number of sensor points for different types of wireless protocols including mesh networks [zigbee or proprietary platforms], active RFID tags, point to point RF sensors, and other types of smart sensors. Octave and O&M are working together to develop back end integration modules, such as an OPC server, for easy integration with existing building and industrial automation control packages.

“O&M has an experienced perspective and is committed to assisting the enterprise professional create optimum solutions through innovative technologies” Said Chris Parker, Director of Business Development with Octave. “That is what makes this such a valued partnership. Not only is O&M a leader in automation and HMI (human–machine interface) technologies, they are willing to look for the next technology that will meet their customers long term automation strategies.”
 

About O&M Engineering, Inc
Incorporated in 1994, O&M Engineering, Inc. is a privately held, Baltimore-based company. O&M Engineering, Inc. was founded to address a niche market serving the diverse computer application needs of facility operation and maintenance professionals. At that time, computerized and digital process enhancements were still in their infancy in most facility operation and maintenance departments. Today, they play an integral role in effective enterprise and facility process automation, and O&M Engineering, Inc. is a firmly established, nationally recognized leader in this arena.

For more information on O&M Engineering Inc, please email info@omengineering.com or visit www.omengineering.com

About Octave Technology
Founded in 2003, Octave Technology Inc. is a software product company whose flagship product, the OCTAVEX™ Wireless Sensor Framework, provides a cost-effective solution for the rapid and scalable deployment of wireless sensor networks (WSN). The OCTAVEX™ Framework is targeted towards software developers, systems integrators, end users, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to allow for the development and deployment of end-to-end wireless sensor solutions in a hardware and standards agnostic manner.

Octave is a privately held company headquartered in Ellicott City, Md. For more information on Octave Technology, please email info@octavetech.com or visit www.octavetech.com