October 16, 2008 - Nivis and Apprion announced that the two companies will collaborate on providing industrial facilities with reliable, secure wireless networks, devices, applications and services. "Our software coupled with Apprion's ION System creates a remarkable synergism to benefit industrial customers," Marius O. Chilom, CEO of Nivis, points out. "This enables manufacturing plants to cost-effectively and securely monitor just about every aspect of the physical plant." "Our relationship with Nivis makes sense from a technical standpoint as well as a philosophical one," Mike Bradley, CEO of Apprion, confirms.
"Both companies are fully committed to open standards, which is a key differentiator that customers are demanding. Together, Nivis and Apprion will make it easy for industrial wireless users to adopt and deploy wireless applications and to do so with greater reliability, security, and cost-effectiveness than they had imagined." Plants that select an open, integrated wireless infrastructure benefit from being able to use many "best of breed" applications. This comprehensive and open wireless network delivers increased ROI and lower total investment costs, which can be sustained for many years. Industrial wireless technology is no longer a conceptual idea, but a reality of the present that has the power to transform plant operations.
It capitalizes on the extremely important invisible asset of every plant -- the airwaves. It is over the airwaves that wireless technologies operate and yield greater monitoring capabilities, points of measurement, enhanced workforce mobility, improved safety and security, more efficient use of assets, raw materials and energy as well as lower costs of plant and process network communications. "Open standards-based wireless networks are secure, reliable, rugged and scalable," Bradley points out. "This truly open wireless infrastructure will allow plants to choose precisely the right wireless devices and applications for 'plug and play' interoperability." Chilom, Nivis CEO, a vocal proponent of open standards, says both Apprion and Nivis strongly endorse open standards.
"Nivis and Apprion are committed to open standards and to being fully compliant with existent ISA100.11a, WirelessHART and 6LoWPAN standards and keeping their technologies fully compatible with future standards," Chilom explains. "Both of our corporate teams are committed to the creation of a wireless ecosystem composed of co-existing and interoperable devices optimally adapted to their niche functionality through adherence to precise standards."
