Crystal Data International has an outstanding track record of recognizing and choosing the best of emerging technologies. It was not clear in the early 1990s that HTML would eventually emerge from the field of competing markup languages that would create what we know as the Internet, nor was it apparent which browser would emerge as one that successful products could be built upon. It was not clear at the turn of our century which of a number of competing streaming video standards would emerge as the viable leaders and which players would be left standing to support them. These were important decisions for Crystal Data: a wrong choice could leave a client stranded without a path to the next technology.
CDI constantly evaluates new technologies by trying them. Many years of parsing new technologies for their positive and negative attributes have sharpened our abilities to pick winners early.
In the universe of managed remote sensors and the essential ability to interoperate among the vast systems of networks that manage them, here are highlights of two technologies that we consider critical.
