DURHAM, NC (Mar 19, 2009) – The Earl Technology Group (ETG), the technology arm of Earl Industries, has announced a strategic investment in Knowledge Vector, the events based middleware provider for situation management and PSIM. Knowledge Vector will use the funds to ramp marketing and sales and to accelerate development of its sensor integration library. [link to more]

ETG is comprised of a growing number of stand-alone companies, each focused on helping government, military and commercial organizations master the new generation of information and media management challenges.

ETG Companies are expert at capturing and marshalling information from video, images, sensors, and text; extracting knowledge from the information and converting it into actionable form; and systematically reducing risk and improving decision-making within complex military, intelligence, and commercial processes.

The Earl Technology Group’s member companies cover a wide range of disciplines to support military, intelligence, and commercial customers:

• Critical Infrastructure Protection

• Video, image, and sensor data capture, processing, and dissemination

• Automated document analysis, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, and Information Visualization

• Network management and security

• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

• Disaster preparedness, first-responder support

• Strategic and tactical Situational Awareness (SA)

• Technology scouting and assessment tools and services

• Cutting-edge research in advanced user interfaces, video-based intelligence systems, causal ontologies, and mobile agents.

Knowledge Vector designs, develops and markets the critical infrastructure to recognize that an event or set of events is occurring, understand the necessary reaction to these events, and coordinate the appropriate response. Knowledge vector’s Knowledge Switch™ has been widely deployed to support critical infrastructure in government, military, and commercial markets.