Avista Realtime Systems (ARS) is a highly skilled application and solution provider company specialized in real-time data communication. Our focus is on mission critical and real-time systems in control and automation. We serve Electric, GAS and Water Utilities, Transportation and Traffic systems and basically any industry that needs to monitor and control a large number of remote devices in a large region. ARS specialization is in developing custom applications for wireless systems, data communication protocol drivers, alarming, real-time data engines, data archiving, communication security enhancement, and network and over the web data visualization. ARS uses Microsoft suite of solutions and application development tools to serve its clients. In the control center side, Microsoft WWF is used to implement logic controls and state machines for automatic operations, Microsoft WCF for secure, fast and reliable data communication, and Microsoft WPF for fast and scalable data visualization. Microsoft SQL Server is used to save, archive and report the plant or system information. Due to its unparalleled quality, ARS uses Microsoft Server technology to host the mission critical applications that require high degree of reliability and speed. At the remote side, ARS uses Windows CE as the preferred choice for embedded operating system. ARS solutions enable the Win CE hardware to perform as a communication protocol converter/gateway, logic controller, data visualization, data logger, network manager etc. ARS owns Control Toolbox website (www.controltoolbox.com), through which it offers software solutions for data communication and automation applications. The focus is on providing easy to use and feature rich applications that can be used by other developers in this field. The goal is to help the developers to shorten time to market and decrease the cost by embedding our modules in their solutions. Control Toolbox also offers consulting services in software development for data communication and automation. In order to stay in touch with the professional community, we offer a weblog on this site that discusses different issues related to the field.
