Lots of RFID vendors focus on providing visibility for their customers.Omnitrol Networks has a different view of visibility than most, one that turns the traditional view of shop-floor visibility upside down.

Frost & Sullivan recognizes the company's new convergent application network, which reduces technology expenditures and offers real-time visibility, traceability, and improved operational performance.

Based on its recent analysis of the real-time operational visibility and enterprise application-integration domain, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Omnitrol Networks Inc. with the 2009 North American Frost & Sullivan Excellence in Product Value of the Year Award for its Real-Time Omnitrol Services Network. Omnitrol's new convergent application network lowers end-users' technology expenditure while offering cost-efficient, real-time visibility, traceability and improved operational excellence.

Industry analysts Frost and Sullivan handed out their 2009 Excellence in Industrial Technologies Awards on Wednesday April 8th, in San Antonio, Texas. The Industrial Technologies Awards are given to companies that have made a significant contribution to the manufacturing, automation, logistics, distribution, materials, construction, security, and process industries.

Frost & Sullivan Awards are given annually to technology and service providers in 12 industrial markets, including Industrial Automation & Process Control. Other categories include Automatic Identification & Security, Automotive & Transportation, Building Management, and Sensors & Instrumentation.

Omnitrol Networks, which received the North American Excellence in Product Value Award. Omnitrol was recognized for its Real-Time Omnitrol Services Network, a plant automation and visibility suite that, unlike many other MES and EMI systems, “provides…customers with a unified control platform to integrate multiple field devices, experience real-time operational intelligence, and achieve rapid time-to-value,” Frost & Sullivan judges reported. The judges also noted that the Omnitrol suite helps manufacturers reduce plant downtime by providing real-time shop floor visibility.

Omnitrol Networks, provider of real-time application network platforms for business process optimization and RFID-based asset track and trace solutions, announces that it has entered into a strategic relationship with BT Global Services, a world leading provider of networked IT services.

Omnitrol Networks, a provider of application network platforms, has entered into a strategic relationship with BT Global Services, a provider of networked IT services

BT Supply Chain Solutions, a leading technology integrator in Europe, formalized a strategic relationship with Omnitrol Networks giving BT access to Omnitrol's technology platform that integrates RFID and sensor data to provide real-time visibility in industrial and supply chain environments.

Working to further its vision of marrying shop floor data integration with supply chain management, application network platform provider Omnitrol Networks has announced a strategic partnership with IT service provider British Telecom Global Services, whereby BT’s Supply Chain Solutions group will use the Omnitrol network appliance to facilitate the supply chain optimization services it offers to customers.

The Omnitrol Networks/British Telecom Global Services (NYSE: BT) alliance has a bold objective: the real-time end-to-end supply-chain visibility (or “global track and trace”) that has proven so elusive.