Kinesix Software has sold upgrades and additional licenses for its flagship Sammi® product to the operators of the NASA Integrated Training Facility (ITF) in Houston.
The ITF is a computer-driven operations center used to train NASA flight controllers and astronauts, as well as their Russian, Japanese, European and Canadian counterparts. The facility features several exact space-craft replicas that simulate the International Space Station and Space Shuttle.
The ITF will deploy Sammi — an application-development kit that allows users to custom-build elaborate graphical displays to view large volumes of streaming data — as the user-interface for a variety of these space-mission simulators.
In addition, Sammi will be deployed as part of the NASA Integrated Planning System, a network used to prepare for Space Shuttle and International Space Station flights.
These deployments complement NASA’s long history with Sammi. The Johnson Space Center, for example, has utilized Sammi since 1992 to run 90 percent of the graphic displays in its Mission Control Center, which oversees a variety of space flights including the Space Shuttle.
“Sammi has already proven effective at meeting NASA’s real-time space-flight needs,” says Kinesix CEO Russ Jamerson. “We know the ITF will benefit enormously from its proven ability to meet their unique training and operational requirements.”
About Kinesix Software
Kinesix Software is the developer of Sammi, an enterprise and control room graphics tool used by more than 20,000 mission command and process control workers. The Sammi product, which was first launched in 1990, allows users to build custom graphical displays that animate and manage massive volumes of streaming data across dozens — or even hundreds — of workstations. With Sammi, users see full-color dashboards, instead of rudimentary numeric readings or basic, conventional GUIs. While Sammi is often categorized as a graphics product, its real value lies in its proven ability to display live data across a network of command and control systems. Kinesix offers Sammi for a variety of platforms, including Unix, Microsoft NT/2000/XP and Linux. In addition, Kinesix is currently developing its next-generation human-machine interface, based on Microsoft’s .Net platform. To learn more visit www.kinesix.com.
