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Sierra Monitor Corporation: Sierra Monitor Corporation and Crestron Electronics, Inc. Announce Partnership

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^{Published in Science and Technology on Wednesday, July 1st 2009 at 7:15 GMT, Last Modified on 2009-07-01 07:15:56 by Market Wire}  

MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwire - July 1, 2009) - Sierra Monitor Corporation (OTCBB: [ SRMC ]), a Cleantech focused company that designs, manufactures and sells electronic safety and environmental instrumentation, announced that its subsidiary FieldServer Technologies (FST), a major manufacturer of gateways for the building automation and process controls industries, has joined the Crestron Electronics Integrated Partner Program to provide interoperability solutions when interfacing to other building automation and control networks and devices.

FST enables communication between various instruments, systems, and devices that utilize non-compatible data protocols. By using the FieldServer gateway, Crestron is able to bring together information from other devices using such protocols as LonWorks and BACnet enabling them to operate seamlessly in a commercial or residential Crestron control solution environment. By uniting all of the building sub-systems onto a single platform, the integrator can provide a single point of local or remote control via Ethernet using Crestron touch panels, web tablets, keypads or PC via browser.

FieldServer serves as a link between two or more different devices, acting as a client and server simultaneously. FieldServer products feature rich protocol translator gateways enabling data transfer between the output from Crestron products and an extensive library of other serial and Ethernet protocols used in building automation, HVAC, fire and process control industries.

About Crestron

Crestron Electronics, Inc. is a premier designer and manufacturer of advanced control systems, lighting, HVAC and AV distribution for corporate boardrooms and conference rooms, training facilities, government installations, educational institutions and high-tech homes.

About FieldServer Technologies

FST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sierra Monitor Corporation based in Milpitas, California, designs and markets a broad line of devices that enhance communication between various instruments, systems, machines and other devices that use non-compatible data protocols. FST manufactures multiport gateways that run proprietary software implementing any combination of translation between over 100 protocol drivers.