Omnilink Press Releases http://www.omnilink.com Omnilink Systems, the leading provider of pre-built applications for tracking people and assets, today announced that it has released Alzheimer's Association Comfort Zone Check-In as an extension of the current Alzheimer's Association Comfort Zone product. Comfort Zone Check-In offers individuals with Alzheimer's and their caregivers a range of new device, service plans and features to create more options for helping to maintain an individual's independence and security. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR032211.html Omnilink, the leading provider of pre-built applications for tracking people and assets, today announced that Sprint will offer the Omnilink Asset Locator tracking service through its Business Direct sales channel. The Omnilink Asset Locator solution, operating on the Nationwide Sprint Network, offers companies a unique, out-of-the box security tool for tracking assets at risk for theft. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR032111.html Omnilink, the leading provider of pre-built applications for tracking people and assets, today announced that Sprint will offer the Omnilink Asset Locator tracking service through its Business Direct sales channel. The Omnilink Asset Locator solution, operating on the Nationwide Sprint Network, offers companies a unique, out-of-the box security tool for tracking assets at risk for theft. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR031611.html Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced at the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference, that it is partnering with IDEAL LIFE Inc. to expand IDEAL LIFE’s product portfolio to include embedded wireless devices. The companies will develop, certify and co-market a version of the IDEAL LIFE hub to transmit health data over the Nationwide Sprint Network. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR022311.html Women In Technology (WIT) is announcing the publication of its first book, CLIMB: Leading Women In Technology Share Their Journeys To Success. CLIMB features more than 60 profiles of leaders influencing Atlanta’s business, academic and technology landscapes, including Women of the Year in Technology Award recipients, WIT presidents, and key WIT supporters and volunteers. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR121410.html TechAmerica Georgia today announced it has received 85 nominations for the 2010 "Spirit of Endeavor" awards, given annually to recognized outstanding individuals and companies in the technology industry. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR111510.html Companies with new product and service ideas for machine-to-machine and embedded computing now have a place to bring them to life in direct collaboration with leading names in networking, computing and applications technology. Sprint (NYSE: S) opens its M2M Collaboration Center today in Burlingame, Calif., providing a true roll-up-your sleeves workshop where partners and enterprise customers work side by side to develop commercially viable offerings based on M2M, or machine-to-machine technology. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR102610.html A child is reported missing every 40 seconds and more than 260,000 children are abducted each year. In order to help ensure the safety and security of all children, the AmberWatch Foundation (www.AmberWatchFoundation.org) and Omnilink Systems (www.omnilink.com) have joined together to launch AmberWatch GPS, the most powerful mobile solution available to parents that need or want to know their child’s location any time of any day. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR092210.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in end-to-end LBS (location-based services) solutions for the enterprise, consumer and government markets, announced that Kelly Gay has been named President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). She replaces Wain Kellum, Omnilink’s CEO since 2007, who will remain in an advisory capacity through the transition. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR042910.html Omnilink Systems, a market leader in location solutions that help ensure the safety and security of people and valuable assets, as well as the recovery of any that go missing, recently expanded its executive team with the addition of Suzanne Henderson as vice president of engineering. Henderson is responsible for overseeing all application development initiatives at Omnilink as the company focuses on launching new personal tracking applications and building unique location solutions for all types of enterprises. She is based in the company’s Atlanta office and reports to Omnilink’s CEO, Wain Kellum. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR121709.html Launched today, the Alzheimer's Association Comfort Zone, powered by Omnilink, is the first comprehensive location management system designed specifically for Alzheimer’s, giving people with the disease more freedom and independence in their community while providing their family some peace of mind. Comfort Zone is a Web-based application that works with various location devices throughout the progression of the disease to proactively communicate the location of the person with Alzheimer’s within two to 30 minutes, based on the family’s selected plan. Comfort Zone also offers families assistance with 24/7 monitoring center services and access to emergency health records from the MedicAlert Foundation http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR102209.html Omnilink Systems, a leading provider of end-to-end location-based service (LBS) monitoring solutions today announced the expansion of its executive team with the addition of James Franklin as Vice President of Professional Services. Franklin is responsible for the implementation and customization of Omnilink’s location-based services platform into client organizations and will lead these initiatives as the company continues its exponential growth. He is based in the company’s Atlanta office and reports to CEO Wain Kellum. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR051209.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, today announced the promotion of Daniel Graff-Radford to Vice President of Judicial Solutions. Effective immediately, Graff-Radford will lead Omnilink's judicial sales and account management initiatives for federal, state and local agencies. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR082608.html With one of the largest prison systems in the U.S., Texas, like many other states, faces prison overcrowding issues. To alleviate the strains on the system, Victim Safety First provides alternatives to incarceration in several Texas counties. Today, the organization announced that it is using Omnlink's offender monitoring solution to track the movements of participants in the program. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR072908.html The Oakland County, Michigan judicial system has implemented the use of Omnilink Systems' electronic offender monitoring technology and is seeing positive results throughout the community by tracking the movement of those awaiting pretrial and low risk offenders. With this information being sent real-time, pretrial officers and law enforcement can more easily monitor these offenders and ensure they are abiding by their established curfews and geographical boundaries. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR072108.html Omnilink Systems announced today that it has been selected as one of thirty-six companies to present at CED's Venture Conference. Scheduled for April 16-18, 2008, at Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club in Durham, N.C., CED's 25th Annual Venture Conference will showcase the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic's top investment opportunities to hundreds of venture capitalists and financiers from throughout the United States. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR040808.html CTIA WIRELESS 2008, the premier global event representing the $500 billion global wireless industry, today announced the winners of the third annual Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. The E-Tech awards honor the best products and innovations in a number of categories representing the wireless ecosystem, including mobile consumer electronics, consumer mobile applications, enterprise solutions, network infrastructure, mobile widgets and 4G. CTIA WIRELESS is taking place this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR040308.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, today introduced an enhanced solution, powered by the company's FocalPoint™ LBS software, for the tracking of valuable goods that enables companies to ensure their whereabouts at all times. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR040108.html Omnilink Systems announced today that its FocalPoint™ solution was selected as a finalist in the Third Annual CTIA Emerging Technologies (E-Tech) Awards. Omnilink’s FocalPoint is the industry-leading LBS platform to monitor the location of people and valuable assets of interest. FocalPoint delivers an on-demand Software as a Service approach to easily provision and manage location-based devices. With FocalPoint, customers can define geospatial rules, know real-time or historical location points, and receive exception-based notifications. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR032608.html Truancy not only keeps students from getting an education, it also acts as a gateway to the commission of illegal activities, such as vandalism, theft or more serious crimes. That’s why getting students back in school is so important to the Midland County Justice Court in Texas, where they announced the use of Omnilink’s electronic monitoring devices on at-risk truant students to track whether they are attending school. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR032508.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, has been recognized by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in the state. The award was presented to Omnilink during a reception at the Georgia Technology Summit: Innovation in Transformation at the Cobb Galleria Centre. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR022808.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, announced today that Dendy Young has joined the company's board of directors. Mr. Young is the Managing Partner of McLean Capital, LLC, a private equity firm focused on government information technology. Mr. Young's thirty-plus years of experience includes a decade as CEO of GTSI Corp., a $1 billion government-focused enterprise services and solutions provider. He founded Falcon Systems, a systems integrator that was sold to Oracle Corp. in 1988 and Falcon Microsystems, Inc., which became a nationally recognized, multi-platform federal reseller and integrator before being sold to GTSI in August 1994. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR020508.html After years of dealing with faulty GPS offender tracking devices, the Clark County Courts Home Incarceration Office was on the verge of giving up on the technology, until they were introduced to Omnilink Systems' offender monitoring solution. Disappointed with false readings and inadequate location information, the Clark County Courts Home Incarceration Office had reviewed nearly every Radio Frequency (RF) and GPS tracking device available on the market. "Omnilink is the only device that provides 24/7 real-time surveillance regardless of an offender's location," says Bill Delehanty, director of Clark County Courts Home Incarceration Office. "Omnilink's tracking system is heads above anything else that's out there." http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR120307.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services technology (LBS), today announced its offender monitoring solution has been chosen by Salt Lake County to electronically track non-violent offenders as they re-enter society. Salt Lake County is launching the innovative monitoring program with a two-pronged goal: to increase the odds of offender rehabilitation, while enhancing public safety. Officials believe diligent monitoring of offenders with electronic tracking devices gives offenders a better chance at getting their lives back on track upon leaving jail. Omnilink’s solution stood out as the only one that effectively tracks people indoors and outdoors through a groundbreaking combination of GPS and cellular technologies. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR111407.html Omnilink Systems today announced the appointment of Keith Landers as Chief Operating Officer. Leading the Development and Client Services teams, Landers will devise and drive operational procedures that support outstanding service for Omnilink’s rapidly expanding customer base. Omnilink’s offender monitoring solutions are currently experiencing exponential growth in the judicial field because of their remarkable ability to track offenders where traditional GPS products cannot. Landers will oversee day-to-day operations for the offender monitoring solutions and the newly-launched covert surveillance solution, as well as Omnilink’s other commercial offerings. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR110907.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services technology (LBS), today announced the general availability of its covert surveillance solution for law enforcement agencies. Omnilink provides LBS solutions that go beyond the traditional GPS-based offerings to provide the real-time location of people and valuable assets, even where GPS solutions do not work. Omnilink’s covert surveillance solution, a combination of a small tracking device and Omnilink’s FocalPoint software, gives law enforcement the ability to easily and covertly track vehicles or stolen goods during criminal investigations. While traditional GPS-based surveillance products lose track of goods or vehicles whenever they move out of the line-of-sight of global positioning satellites, Omnilink’s covert surveillance solution works anywhere. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR103007.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, was awarded the Cygnus Law Enforcement Group Innovation Award for Corrections technology on Sunday night in New Orleans during the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police conference. A leader in location-based service technology (LBS), Omnilink provides LBS solutions that go beyond the traditional GPS-based offerings to provide the real-time location of people and valuable assets, even where GPS solutions do not work. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR101807.html After completing a nationwide search for the most advanced electronic monitoring technology, Total Sentencing Alternatives Program (TSAP) selected Omnilink Systems' solution to monitor offenders in TSAP's alternative sentencing program throughout the New Orleans area. A leader in location-based service technology (LBS), Omnilink provides LBS solutions that go beyond the traditional GPS-based offerings to provide the real-time location of people and valuable assets, even where GPS solutions do not work. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR101707.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in location-based services (LBS) technology, today announced the appointment of Wain Kellum as chief executive officer. Kellum will be responsible for driving the company’s strategy and operational execution as it continues its rapid growth in providing location-based services solutions. Kellum brings over 25 years of experience and a solid track record of successfully building industry-leading companies to his role as CEO. As the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Extreme Logic, he led the professional services firm from inception to its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, where it formed the foundation of HP’s applications solution business in the Americas. He also spent several years as the CEO of nuBridges, launching the company into the position of the leading secure eBusiness authority. Today, more than 3,000 companies use nuBridges software and services to conduct over $884 billion in secure electronic transactions every year. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Kellum is also the chairman of TechBridge, the Atlanta NPower affiliate. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR100507.html Omnilink Systems, a pioneer in location-based services technology, today announced a partnership with Stop Child Predators, a non-profit organization committed to protecting America's children from sexual predators. The two organizations have partnered to encourage policy makers and law enforcement officials to enforce mandatory GPS tracking devices on all convicted sex offenders. Through this partnership, Stop Child Predators is endorsing Omnilink Systems and its offender monitoring solution as its recommended sex offender monitoring system. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR100207.html After testing four competing offender monitoring solutions, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department selected Omnilink Systems' advanced wireless offender monitoring solution for the Clark County Detention Center house arrest program. Prior to implementing the advanced Omnilink solution, authorities could not track offender movements outside the home; they only knew where offenders were located when they "checked-in" their devices at their home bases. Using Omnilink's advanced FocalPoint 2.0 technology, officers now track the real-time location of more than 200 offenders currently in the house arrest program, and participation in the program is growing. Monitored individuals include people awaiting trial for or convicted of drunk driving and sex-related offenses. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR091807.html For its winning bid to provide offender monitoring services to the Kansas Department of Corrections (Kansas DOC), Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems (RMOMS) selected Omnilink Systems as its preferred technology partner. As a partner with RMOMS for the Kansas DOC, the Omnilink/RMOMS partnership began system implementation in October of 2006 tracking fewer than 20 offenders. One month later, more than 300 offenders were and are tracked by Omnilink's FocalPoint 2.0 system, a combination of ankle devices linked to Web-enabled mapping software that keeps offenders in check. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR070907.html Omnilink's offender monitoring system is helping alternative sentencing provider GA House Arrest Services, Inc. successfully execute court-ordered offender monitoring programs. Bryant Ackerman, services director of GA House Arrest, says Omnilink provides him with the industry's most accurate location technology, which results in significant time savings. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR061307.html Omnilink Systems announced today the appointment of technology and software sales veteran Curtis Rapp as Vice President of Sales. With more than 22 years of experience in the technology and software, Rapp is responsible for driving Omnilink's judicial sales team to achieve the company's market penetration and expansion objectives. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR052107.html Today, the Juvenile Probation Board of Hale County, Texas announced it has selected Omnilink Systems to provide electronic juvenile offender monitoring services for several county youth that are on probation. After relying on landline-based monitoring, which only notified probation officers when offenders were home, Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Eddie Subealdea stated that Omnilink's FocalPoint 2.0 monitoring technology solution allows the Hale County officers to know the location of their assigned juveniles at all times. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR051607.html Omnilink Systems announced today that it has been named to the annual FierceWireless "Fierce 15" list, designating it as one of the top wireless companies of the year. FierceWireless editors evaluated hundreds of organizations, and found Omnilink Systems to be amongst the "fiercest," proven by their creativity and innovations in the marketplace… "Omnilink is a wireless trendsetter – the firm's use of GPS, RFID and cellular to monitor and track assets is truly innovative," said Sue Marek, Editor-in-Chief of FierceMarkets. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR042307.html Omnilink today announced the launch of its next generation offender monitoring technology, FocalPoint 2.0. Setting a new offender monitoring standard in 2005, FocalPoint is the only single-unit solution that tracks inside buildings and other places where GPS-only solutions do not work. The updated version enhances the user experience through more powerful mapping engines and precision location tracking capabilities that include proactive mobile phone alerts. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR043007.html Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems (RMOMS), a pioneer in the evolution of electronic monitoring technology as an alternative to jail or prison, has chosen Omnilink's offender monitoring solution to bring superior monitoring technology to its programs. RMOMS offender monitoring programs, aided by Omnilink's technology, allow offenders to become active community members, while ensuring their compliance and accountability per the requirements of the judicial system. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR083006.html Telecommunications veteran Steve Hudson has joined Omnilink Systems as Vice President of Business Development. Hudson, who has more than 13 years of telecommunications experience, is responsible for expanding the global distribution, product portfolio, and capabilities of Omnilink's location-aware software through business partnerships with wireless carriers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, independent software vendors and direct enterprise companies. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR071106.html Omnilink Systems, a leader in the emerging field of Vital Status Services (VSS), will launch Focalpoint, a Web-based application expected to streamline offender monitoring, at the Innovative Technologies for Community Corrections Conference, June 12-14 in Atlanta. The second component of Omnilink's comprehensive suite of monitoring solutions, Focalpoint is a highly configurable exception-based platform, enabling users to specify the monitoring criteria and receive real-time alerts if exceptions occur, via automated voice calls, text message, pager, email, fax, etc. Focalpoint's inter-operability architecture makes it very easy to integrate the system into pre-existing applications to make the customer's value chain even more effective. http://www.omnilink.com/Omnilink_News/PressReleases/PR060606.html