ObjectFX Releases New Spatial Rules 3.0 Spatiotemporal Engine
New Geospatial Tools Improve Spatiotemporal Application Development
MINNEAPOLIS (Business Wire EON) April 9, 2008 --
ObjectFX ®
Corporation, a leader in delivering dynamic spatiotemporal and
geospatial tools and business rules, announced that it has released its
newest 3.0 version of Spatial
Rules, as part of the growing suite of ObjectFX geospatial software.
Spatial Rules is a service-oriented middleware component designed to
manage streams of spatial and temporal data generated by location-aware
devices, sensors, and other automated and manual collection systems.
Traditional Geographic Information Systems (GIS) vendors have failed to
address the need for a scalable, open framework for spatiotemporal rule
creation and processing, leaving most customers with the need to develop
custom or “one-off”
solutions that are expensive to build, difficult to maintain and not
scalable.
Spatial Rules 3.0 strengthens the company’s
ability to help customers intelligently manage the flood of
location-based information that faces many organizations in government
and the private sector. Spatial Rules customers include commercial
transportation and supply chain logistics; government homeland security,
logistics and law enforcement; military blue/red force tracking and
situational awareness; and intelligence gathering and monitoring.
ObjectFX Spatial Rules is designed to continuously analyze large volumes
of timestamped location data and to transform the data into usable
information. Examples include monitoring vehicles to detect when they
enter or exit an area of interest, veer off-route, or move within
proximity to a landmark. Cluster analysis indicates when certain types
of objects gather near each other. Geofence monitoring and proximity to
areas of interest can be done in two or three dimensions to establish
threat zones, monitor airspace, or detect transitions across checkpoints
on the ground, at altitude, or below sea-level. Areas and corridors can
be monitored for undesirable activity or to warn when severe weather
approaches work zones, crews, or convoys.
New features in Spatial Rules 3.0 include:
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Dynamic cluster detection used to recognize when objects or events
within an area reach a specified density threshold.
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Ability to treat points, lines or polygons as “locatables”
(i.e., dynamic objects that are tracked).
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Three-dimensional features based on a highly scalable “two-and-a-half”
dimension geometry model used in the gaming industry.
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Support for 3D distance calculations, including line-of-sight and
great circle options.
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Built-in support for a broad range of input formats, including: Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Geography Markup Language (GML), ESRI
Shapefiles, Google Earth™ KML and GeoRSS.
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Support for the OGC Feature Encoding Specification Version 1.2 for
expressing rule logic.
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Support for new rule predicates, including traverses, closeTo,
interacts and inCluster.
“We are seeing huge new demand for
high-throughput spatiotemporal business rules in the commercial
industries that we target,” said Nick
Thomey, President, ObjectFX. “All of that is
in addition to the growing volume of government
and military applications already using our Spatial Rules engine.”
“Spatial Rules 3.0 will provide our customers
with an even more flexible and easy-to-use way to build spatial and
temporal rules into their integrated solutions, thereby improving their
spatially-enabled applications and shortening their product delivery
times,” Thomey continued.
Spatial
Rules 3.0 is designed to work either by itself in a spatiotemporal
application or side by side with other business rules engines and can be
purchased as an independent product or as a complement to SpatialFX®,
the geospatial software platform from ObjectFX. Visit www.objectfx.com
for more information on both products.
Spatial Rules 3.0 is available for immediate purchase by ObjectFX
customers.
About ObjectFX Corporation
ObjectFX provides geospatial tools that enable organizations to leverage
the full value of dynamic spatial and temporal data to gather
intelligence, monitor and improve operations, and respond more quickly
to changing conditions. SpatialRules is a spatiotemporal rules engine
that provides real time analysis of spatial and temporal data produced
by location-tracking technologies such as the Global Positioning System
(GPS), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, cellular carriers
and sensor networks. SpatialFX is a Java-based platform for developing
and deploying geospatial applications, including 2D and 3D map
visualization, vehicle routing, address geocoding, custom symbology and
other mission-critical capabilities on a full range of client and server
systems. ObjectFX software is deployed in a broad range of industries in
which location and timing are critical, including transportation, supply
chain and field force management, homeland security, national defense
and intelligence gathering. For more information, visit ObjectFX at www.objectfx.com.
Keyword Tags:
business rules, geospatial tools, spatial rules, spatiotemporal
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