ICONICS Launches Mobile Apps for Apple, Android and Microsoft

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - May 6, 2013 - PRLog -- Chicago, Illinois – WINDPOWER 2013 – May 5 - 8 – Booth 2417 – ICONICS, winner of the Microsoft® Sustainability Partner of the Year award, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and provider of Web-enabled industrial visualization software for Microsoft Windows® operating systems, is excited to announce the launch of its new MobileHMI™ solutions for Microsoft Surface™ devices running Windows RT, Windows 8 Phones, Apple iPads and iPhones and Android™ devices.

Users can visualize electrical generation and grid operations from any mobile device with dazzling, fully animated graphics or respond to alarms and alerts in real time. They can utilize natural multi-touch gestures to swipe through their utility assets and zoom or drill down into equipment to see all relevant information to support their maintenance tasks. ICONICS MobileHMI allows users to achieve instant, one-touch access to operational KPIs. The new Search charm allows users to explore and identify all available information on topics of interest. With MobileHMI, users are made immediately aware of critical alerts (notifications) that are delivered to mobile devices and displayed on the Start screen via MobileHMI Smart Tiles.

“ICONICS has proven that Windows 8 delivers the responsiveness and robustness needed for critical utility, process and discrete manufacturing applications," said John Richards, Senior Director of Windows App Marketing for Microsoft Corp. "Plant operators and supervisors no longer need to be tethered to the control room, and corporate executives are now virtually a touch away from real-time operations performance KPIs, independent of their travel schedules."

MobileHMI apps are fully secure and communicate with ICONICS products such as GENESIS64™, AnalytiX®, Hyper Historian™ and others. This integration enables OPC, OPC-UA, BACnet, SNMP, and Modbus TCP/IP compliance, helping ensure that data from any plant, building, equipment or system is immediately viewable on your mobile device. ICONICS offers a total solution that can integrate with almost any plant control network or building automation system network to make it accessible from mobile devices.

"Our MobileHMI apps deliver rich visualization using HTML5 and Windows RT thin mobile technology" said ICONICS CEO and President Russ Agrusa. "Standard features, including dynamic real-time graphics, alarm notifications and extensive trending and charting, are now available on any device. ICONICS is proud to launch our MobileHMI app, via the Microsoft Marketplace, the Apple App Store and the Google Play™ store, to enable operations from AnyGlass, Anytime™.”

With MobileHMI, ICONICS continues to demonstrate its strategy of configuring once and publishing to 'AnyGlass'. Visualizations, including dynamic animated graphics, real-time and historical trends, real-time grids and much more, can be defined once and then published to run on the MobileHMI app for Windows 8 devices (including the Microsoft Surface device), iPads, iPhones, Android devices, within any Web browser, and as a Microsoft SharePoint® Web Part.

Download the MobileHMI app for Windows 8 at http://www.iconics.com/mobilehmi/8 and access our demonstration server to witness the power of MobileHMI at your fingertips.

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ICONICS Background Information

ICONICS, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Winner of the Microsoft Sustainability Partner of the Year award, provides solutions to improve productivity, reduce integration time and operating costs, and optimize asset utilization with visualization and automation software. Founded in 1986, ICONICS has 300,000 installations in over 60 countries worldwide. ICONICS meets the demanding application challenges of the automotive, building automation, food and beverage, government infrastructure, manufacturing, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, renewable energy, utilities and water/wastewater industries. As a managed Microsoft ISV Partner, ICONICS designs its solutions to leverage Microsoft technologies, including multiple Windows platforms (including Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012), Microsoft .NET, Silverlight, SQL Server 2012 and Microsoft SharePoint. ICONICS is the honored recipient of multiple Microsoft awards and achievements.

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