Stonewater Demos Control 1st at AeroCentric Federation Workshop in Ohio
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS—September 18, 2008—Stonewater Control Systems will demonstrate its mobile device management platform, Control 1st, at the Emergency Communications and Sensor Workshop and Demonstration hosted by the AeroCentric Federation (ARES) in Port Clinton, Ohio, on September 24, 2008. The demonstration will use an aerostat, a tethered airship, as a test bed for the development of new platforms for wide-area communications and situational awareness for incident responses of natural disasters, industrial and transportation accidents, and acts of terrorism. Control 1st has the ability to both persistently monitor the health of mobile network nodes and fuse data from disparate sensors.
ARES was established in January 2007 with the goal of advancing technologies necessary to develop a high altitude system capability for the nation. The federation vision is to design incrementally progressive testing capabilities for intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance, remote sensing and communications that will solve the nation's critical need for persistent presence.
Control 1st will relay information about the health of communication and sensory devices onboard the aerostat in addition to displaying sensory data from those devices in one application. "This is the second year that Control 1st has served as the software platform that monitors the health of the communication system, which is built around a Cisco mobile access router. Stonewater will send sensor information securely and wirelessly through a Western DataCom Cisco MAR," said Randolph Nogel, Stonewater's president. "We are grateful to once again be part of the ARES demonstration and help in their critical efforts."
About Stonewater Control Systems
Stonewater Control Systems is a privately held company based in Evanston, Illinois. Stonewater provides turnkey solutions for the management of mobile wireless devices and for communicating real-time sensory data from multiple sources onto a common platform. For more information, please visit http://www.stonewatercontrols.com.
About the AeroCentric Federation (ARES)
The AeroCentric Federation was established in January 2007 with the goal of advancing technologies necessary to develop a high altitude system capability for the nation. AeroCentric Federation Team Members include the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Battle Lab, the Ohio Aerospace Institute, SkySentry LLC, Western DataCom, the NASA Glenn Research Center, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Toledo and the Lorain County Community College. For more information, visit http://www.aerocentricfederation.com.
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