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The SmartOps24x7 Industrial Smart Operations Management (ISOM) software suite is the result of a long history of technological evolution, with Dr. Peter Green as technical director and systems architect.
This project started with the
venture-backed development of an early AI based supercomputer, which led to the funding of a project at MIT by DARPA to develop distributed real-time AI methods, based on using a network to computers to acoustically track airborne vehicles in a noisy battlefield environment.
This was followed by the development of the Activation Framework real-time intelligent-agent based-software platform at WPI, which was funded by the US Air Force research lab and NASA. Here the primary focus was on the simulation of air-battles and developing real-time Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods to give real-time advice to pilots operating in a hostile and rapidly changing environment.
The Real-Time Intelligent Systems (RTIS) corporation was spun out of WPI and for a decade acted as a defense contractor supporting a variety of US defense department initiatives, primarily in the area the application of Activation Framework.
With a major downturn in defense spending, around Y2K (year 2000) RTIS was renamed BellHawk Systems Corporation (BSC) and changed its focus to industrial applications of intelligent agent and real-time AI technology.
This software used many of the lessons learned from the Activation Framework project and was successfully installed by BSC to solve operations management problems in a wide variety of industrial organizations for nearly a decade, until the financial crisis of 2008, when development was taken over by Milramco LLC.
Milramco was founded by Dr. Peter Green to start a project named Tau Adaptor to develop a new version of the intelligent agent software, based on using a network of Windows based computers connected over the internet, with a focus on using web-browser and web-server interfaces.
The outcome of this project was a new intelligent-agent based software platform named MilramX™ and an AI based operations tracking and data capture software named BellHawk®.
Under license from Milramco, BellHawk and MilramX are sold today, throughout the continental USA by KnarrTek Inc., which is a systems integrator with a primary emphasis on selling industrial data collection and smart operations management systems to mid-sized industrial enterprises. In this role, KnarrTek acts primarily a systems integrator providing complete turnkey data collection systems, with software, services, equipment and supplies. As a result, KnarrTek has a significant number of happy customers using BellHawk and MilramX.
KnarrTek now also offers an integrated version of BellHawk and MilramX, named WIPtracker™ which is sold as an affordable standard plug-and-play operations tracking and management product, preloaded in a small ruggedized Windows IOT computer, with a specific emphasis on the needs of the over 200,000 small and mid-sized make-to order manufacturing plants in the USA.
SmartOpsMgt™ LLC was recently founded to make the SmartOps24x7 software suite available for resale through a network of partners who can provide complete solutions, with equipment and services to their own customers.
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