Andrew Thomas's Contact Details

Andrew Thomas's Company Details

Cogent Real-Time Systems, Inc.

Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada • 6 Employees
Information Technology & Services

Founded in 1995, Cogent provides proven middleware products to enable real-time data integration and distribution for industrial, embedded, and financial systems. Customers include Siemens, ABB, Honeywell, IBM, GE, Statoil, Goodyear, BASF, Cadbury Chocolate, and the Bank of Canada. Cogent was conceived by a group of engineering and software professionals who recognized a need for robust, flexible tools to solve the wide variety of process control issues not addressed by standard products. We found that most tools on the market make it easy to solve 80% of the problem, but almost impossible to do the final 20%. Using innovative principles such as dynamic message passing and a loosely coupled architecture, we have developed a series of middleware products to support real-time collection and distribution of data for industrial and financial applications.We started with the QNX real-time operating system in 1995, expanded our work to Linux in 1999, and then to Windows in 2001. To meet demand for sharing data between Microsoft Excel applications in the financial sector we introduced the Cascade Datahub in 2004. Development then turned to the industrial protocol OPC, and in 2006 the OPC DataHub® software was released. In 2008 we initiated projects for connecting to embedded systems, as well as enhance data integration, storage, and web-based data display. These projects culiminated in the release of the Cogent DataHub® and DataHub WebView™ at the beginning of 2011.