Internet Teleoperations and Collaboration Tools

AZ Technology, Inc.

Huntsville, AL

The TeleOPerations System (TOPS™) uses commercial personal computers and Web-based communications to remotely control and monitor systems. TOPS provides commanding and telemetry distribution/display via Internet Protocol-based communications and Web browsers.

• The firm has also partnered/collaborated/ with the following companies to help capitalize on their unique technology: NASA, NASDA, US Air Force, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, US Army, DARPA, Canadian Space Agency.

• TOPS and related collaboration tools are being developed to support Internet-based distance learning and education/public outreach involving "live" Web applications/sites.
• National Science Foundation FY00 SBIR Phase I Award for remote science experiment distance learning applications, $100,000. Planned product: Space Experiment Education Kit™. Partners: Durham Research and University of Alabama-Birmingham.
• Learning Technologies Project FY00 award to develop data, conferencing, and video tools for education and public outreach, $50,000. Planned services: Live from Space Station®.
• AZ Technology Internet-based collaboration tools business segment created to develop and market distance learning products and services available 2002.
• Future potential commercial applications include: distributed workgroup business and engineering collaboration, distributed manufacturing, and home automation operations.

• AZ Technology provides product installation, integration, training and expertise for several ISS experimenters.
• The firm has been firmly rooted in teleoperations and data acquisition for over 10 years. Experience began with payload support and telemetry data acquisition and has fully evolved into automation and manufacturing, telemedicine, telescience, aircraft telemetry and large facility monitoring expertise.

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