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EpiSensor and IBM to collaborate on real-time, environmental monitoring solutions

Dublin, Ireland - May 29th, 2009

Ireland’s wireless sensor network developer EpiSensor, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) are working together to develop real-time, environmental monitoring solutions for energy, water and carbon management. The interconnecting devices integrate with existing technology investments, linking low power sensors to environmental controllers, leading to increased efficiency, improved performance, lower costs, and reduced environmental impact.

EpiSensor will combine its expertise and know-how in developing environmental monitoring solutions using the open and interoperable ZigBee1 global standard for wireless sensor technology with IBM’s research, enterprise software, advanced modelling and complex network management abilities.

As part of this agreement, EpiSensor will work closely with IBM’s Environmental Solutions Centre of Excellence in Dublin.

Gary Carroll, Founder and CEO of EpiSensor, commented: “We were very pleased to be associated with such a prestigious event. The industry has made huge strides since the first conference last year and it was very significant that the agenda has moved from questions of designing ZigBee products to questions of deployment and application.”

“IBM’s expertise in research, developing software and networking applications in complex enterprise environments will boost our ability to bring turnkey solutions to the market more quickly,” commented Gary Carroll, Chairman, EpiSensor. “Clients for these solutions include large national and international public organisations that need to monitor and deliver quality water services”.

EpiSensor’s engineering team has worked from the beginning with the ZigBee open standard for wireless applications as it has evolved to become the leading method of connecting everything from environmental sensors and home appliances to transport devices and industrial machinery.

“Our clients in industry, government and academia have been asking us for advanced measuring, monitoring, and modelling of energy and environmental systems so that they can lower costs, fill knowledge gaps and make smarter decisions. This collaboration with EpiSensor expands these options,” said Robert McCarthy, IBM’s Environmental Solutions Centre of Excellence, Dublin.

Established in 2007 by entrepreneur Gary Carroll, EpiSensor is headquartered in Limerick, Ireland. It is one of the first companies in Europe to successfully demonstrate ZigBee compliance of its products, which are already being used by clients in North America, India, Ireland, UK and Europe. For more see, http://www.episensor.com