Adept Systems Snapshot
Adept Systems provides products for networked-control systems, including gateways, routers, and network interface chips. Distributed networked-control systems are meant to automate electronic and electromechanical devices in buildings, factories, homes, and ships. Adept Systems has been working with the US Navy for commercial development of shipboard applications. The startup's products support the LonTalk protocol for network communications originally developed by Echelon. The company was established in 1994. Adept Systems is owned by its officers, including co-founders Samuel Smith (president) and Stanley Dunn (VP).