Blue Vector Named Finalist in Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Award

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Blue Vector Systems today announced that the company has been named by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as a finalist in the 2008 Emerging Technology Awards. Aimed at celebrating tomorrow’s leaders today, the awards recognize the innovations and significant accomplishments of technology-oriented companies in Silicon Valley.

Selected as one of two finalists in the “Wireless & Networking” category, Blue Vector and company founder Anurag Mendhekar will be honored on December 4 at an awards ceremony at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Finalists in 12 categories have been invited to the awards ceremony, where attendees will have the opportunity to meet finalists and learn about emerging technologies at individual display tables during a pre- and post-awards ceremony expo. The 2008 Emerging Technology award categories are: Biotechnology, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Entertainment, Green/Clean Technology, Internet Technology, Medical Devices, Mobile Technology, Search, Security, Social Networking, and Wireless & Networking.

“It is truly an honor to be recognized as a Silicon Valley emerging innovator, particularly in light of the rich and dynamic technology ecosystem that has blossomed out of the Valley’s spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship,” commented Mendhekar. “To be named a finalist for this award is further validation that we’ve charted the right course in developing a unique, market-relevant technology to address the growing imperative of intelligently managing movement and condition of products, people, places, and assets. In an increasingly interdependent and connected world, Blue Vector’s ‘sense and respond’ platform and solutions extend contextual business intelligence and visibility out to the operational edge, where and when real-time decision making matters the most.”

Prior to founding Blue Vector and another company, Mendhekar was a researcher at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he and his team were commissioned by the U.S. military to develop a radically new distributed wireless network architecture to coordinate massive numbers of intelligent nodes simultaneously in the fast-paced and chaotic battlefield theater. Working with the output of this research (which ultimately led to the creation of the aspect-oriented programming paradigm), he founded Palo Alto-based Blue Vector in 2002. Today, Blue Vector’s underlying platform provides intelligent edge capabilities that deliver and facilitate intelligence, processing, and rapid decision-making at the edge of operations—in applications ranging from pharmaceutical serialization and distribution accuracy to remote inventory management and manufacturing visibility.

An award-winning newspaper reaching more than 65,000 business executives throughout the world’s most dynamic business region and beyond, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal presents the 2008 Emerging Technology awards program with its partner sponsors Bridge Bank, Finnegan, Armanino McKenna LLP and Keiretsu Forum. All finalists will be recognized in a December 5th special supplement in the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. For more information on the December 4 event, email sjevents@bizjournals.com or call 408-299-1880.

About Blue Vector Systems

Blue Vector is the leader in sense and respond solutions related to the movement and condition of products, people, places, and assets. The company enables workers to take action on events where work is done by delivering contextual business intelligence to customers’ operational edge, while providing two-way integration with core business applications such as SAP. An offshoot of groundbreaking research into highly distributed military sensor networks, Blue Vector's technology puts RFID, barcode, temperature, GPS, and motion sensors to work for leading organizations that need to improve supply chain economics and comply with global regulations. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, please visit www.bluevector.com.