Overview:
In some cases, companies with products, offices or production facilities at distributed sites are hard-pressed to centralize communications, monitoring and control to/from these sites. In particular, the manufacturing industry and many financial markets rely on centralized communication to determine process efficiency, downtime and collection of the data that is needed to make quick decisions.

Applied Sciences Group has been involved in the development of both network management and remote monitoring software for custom applications.

The lottery and ATM industries, for example, require status criteria from every terminal within a network of terminals, with real-time delivery to a central site. In some cases, statistical process control techniques are used to analyze "hot spots" or other anomalies that could lead to terminal or network failure.

Applied Sciences Group has supported the efforts of several customers to develop software for network configuration, terminal configuration, remote monitoring and remote download. Many of these efforts used proprietary techniques and were written from the ground up using C++, C, Visual Basic, Ada and Assembler; others involved off-the-shelf software and relied on existing formats such as SNMP for communications.