OmniSense LLC, located on Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard, California is a leading producer of wireless sensor networks for commercial and residential applications. The Facility Monitoring System or FMS is being marketed through a partnership with Dryvit Systems Inc. a subsidiary of RPM International Inc. (NYSE:RPM).

FMS supports multiple sensor types for real-time 7x24 monitoring of parameters such as wood moisture, humidity, temperature, AC power, and DC voltage. The wireless sensors can be permanently embedded where needed (inside walls, roofs, crawl spaces etc.) and communicate through a central gateway device.

The sensors operate from a single battery that lasts anywhere from 15 to 45 years for truly maintenance free operation. Sensor readings are sent from the FMS Gateway over the Internet via a standard Ethernet or dial-up connection to the OmniSense host application and stored in a central database. The host application has fault tolerant features to ensure data integrity including server load balancing, daily backups, and UPS with generator backup.

Typical FMS applications include monitoring of:

• Moisture intrusion in commercial and residential structures.
• Critical environments such as data centers, clean rooms, laboratories, and food storage and processing equipment.
• Un-occupied residences such as 2nd homes for unexpected temperature or power failures to meet insurance company requirements for certain types of coverage.
• Moisture levels after water damage repairs.

System alarm thresholds can be custom configured and when an alarm event occurs system subscribers and/or their maintenance company can be alerted by email, pager, text message, or phone.

A subscriber’s sensor data is easily accessible using a powerful web browser interface for real-time diagnostics and all subscriber data is permanently archived. Subscribers can view graphs of a sensor’s data from the last hour, day, week, month, 3 months, 6 months, year or all data for that sensor.