Source: The Sacramento Bee
Vaughan, York Region based Mircom Group of Companies™ has been nominated for a 2013 Edison Award™, in the grouping of Smart Systems for its innovative Open Graphic Navigator™ used in Building Systems. Winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner and Gala in Chicago, IL on April 25, 2013.
“We are proud of our Open Graphic Navigator and honoured to have it recognized by the Edison Awards,” said Mark Falbo, president, The Mircom Group of Companies. “Open GN is making facilities’ monitoring and management much more efficient, saving lives and protecting property.”
The Edison Awards honour innovators. The Awards are named after Thomas Edison reflecting his creativity and ingenuity. The Edison Awards are among the most prestigious accolades that can be bestowed to organizations with creative innovations. Nominees represent “game-changing” products and services in the marketplace. Mircom’s Open GN embodies this ideal.
“Being nominated as an innovator by the Edison Awards is a great success for Open GN because we believe it to be a real innovation in the life safety industry,” said Jason Falbo, Mircom’s vice-president of engineering. “An unprecedented user interface, facility monitoring and instant alert notifications are among the many capabilities that make Open GN the future of life safety and security.”
Open GN is nominated as a Smart System. The software provides a PC based monitoring solution. Using real time monitoring and event reporting, Open GN reduces time for emergency response staff to be prompted to emergency situations. Open GN has multiple facility monitoring and easy graphic configurations with automated data imports. It can be uniquely customized to define floor plans and device symbols as well as real time notification to virtually any location.
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The Regional Municipality of York is located in the heart of the Greater Toronto Area and is home to 1.1 million residents and 42,000 business establishments, making it one of Canada’s largest municipalities and the second largest business centre in the Province of Ontario.
Comprised of nine local municipalities, York Region is a premier business location in Canada. The Region is home to operations of 14 Fortune 100 companies, four of Canada’s top 10 corporate R&D investors, Canada’s second largest Information & Communications Technology (ICT) cluster and global industry leaders in Life Sciences, CleanTech, Financial Services and Advanced Manufacturing.
As Canada’s fastest growing large municipality, York Region has one of the most educated and diverse workforces in North America, the lowest commercial property taxes in greater Toronto and an exceptional quality of life attracting top global talent.
York Region’s local municipalities include the City of Markham, the City of Vaughan, the Town of Richmond Hill, the Town of Newmarket, the Town of Aurora, the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville, the Town of East Gwillimbury, the Town of Georgina and the Township of King.