AVTECH Nominated For Rhode Island Innovation Awards Room Alert 26W For RI’s Most Innovative Technology Products

September 17, 2007 Newport, RI – AVTECH Software (AVTECH) is nominated for multiple “Rhode Island Innovation Awards”, to be presented later this month by Rhode Island’s Tech Collective, Providence Business News and Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. AVTECH is nominated for both “Most Innovative Technology Company 2007” and “Most Innovative Technology Product 2007” for their Room Alert 26W IT & Facilities Environment Monitoring product. These awards are designed to recognize leading Rhode Island organizations that are using today’s most advanced technology to introduce ground-breaking products to the worldwide marketplace.

As one of the newest models in the Room Alert product line, Room Alert 26W is AVTECH’s most advanced hardware solution for ‘Computer Room Environment Monitoring, Alerting & Automatic Corrective Action’. It is designed specifically to assist with monitoring computer room temperature, humidity, power, flood, room entry and more in multiple locations while utilizing wireless technology to avoid running cables. Room Alert 26W’s Wireless Sensor Hubs (WiSH) communicate via a secure, private protocol that is ZigBee compatible, allowing users the ability to monitor large numbers of sensors, both indoors and out.

Customers using AVTECH’s Room Alert monitoring products include organizations like the United Nations, White House, NASA, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, EBay, Ford, Harley-Davidson and thousands more in over 104 countries.

Award winners will be announced at the Rhode Island Innovation Awards And Tech Laureates Night 2007 on September 20th at Hasbro’s Pawtucket world headquarters. Details and ticket information can be found on the Tech Collective website at Tech-Collective.org.

About AVTECH – AVTECH, based in Newport, RI, develops and manufactures hardware and software solutions designed to protect today’s advanced data centers. Their products allow easy remote monitoring of the environmental conditions in a computer room, data center, rack cabinet or other facility. These conditions primarily include temperature and humidity changes, power interruptions and failures, flooding and water leakage, smoke, fire, unauthorized room entry, cameras and more. Once a problem is detected, AVTECH products immediately notify managers and staff via today’s most advanced mobile technologies, enabling a quick response and automatic corrective action. This allows organizations to avoid or minimize downtime, costly hardware replacement and other related expenses.

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