OmniSite
OmniSite makes Internet of Things (IoT) enabled monitors and controls — both the hardware and software — that help protect people and the planet. OmniSite’s industrial wastewater products prevent sewage at lift stations from flowing into our lakes and streams, this helps ensure our drinking water is pure and clean. We also manufacture a consumer product that helps homeowners avoid flooded basements.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Water Monitoring and Testing
- Market Focus:
- Regionally (various states or provinces)
- Year Founded:
- 1999
- Employees:
- 11-100
About Us
Employee Focused, Environmentally Minded
“We start with our employees because they are our most valuable asset,” – Tom Ward, President.
Employees enjoy some of the best benefits available. Where else do you have a 4-day, 32-hour workweek, access to a free gourmet cafe, bi-weekly fitness classes, superior health and 401k benefits, flexible PTO scheduling, and access to continuous education? We’re a small firm, but provide big-business benefits because we know what drives our innovation…our people.
“Employees who are well rested, healthy, eating well, and enjoying their work are the happiest and most innovative,” Ward said. “We know this for a fact because we see the results daily. Our employees are constantly making new products, services, and enhancements that excel in protecting our planet’s environment.”
Our Vision for the Future
OmniSite seeks to be an innovative and profitable company driven by a passion for our customers. We believe we can be the industry leader in our field. To help guide us to that goal, we have created a company mission, vision, and value statement. Each word has been carefully and intentionally selected to help shape the path we will follow today and each day after. We stand by our commitments to our customers, employees, and products.
Mission
Our mission is to provide affordable and reliable monitoring solutions. We aim to surpass customer expectations by providing excellent products and services that are innovative, easy to use, and protect the environment. We strive to meet our customers’ growing needs to become their choice business partner.
Vision
Our vision is to be a multi-industry global leader in providing web-to-wireless products, services, and solutions by creating a full line of products that transforms the way people manage and distribute information from machinery. We aspire to become a dynamic company that is always growing and learning.
Attaining our vision requires individuals to possess ingenuity, knowledge, and commitment and for the company to create an enriching environment of trust, cooperation, and mutual respect.
Values
OmniSite is a company that values quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction in our products and productivity, creativity, and teamwork in our employees. As a company, we value our customers and seek to serve them with integrity and sincerity.
History
Logical Concepts, Inc. was created on January 1, 1999 by Tom Ward, of Greenwood, Indiana.
Tom worked for Honeywell Corporation from 1980 to 1985 as a co-op student while attending Purdue University. While at Honeywell, he functioned first as a technician, then programmer and finally as an engineer. Upon graduation, Tom accepted a position in the Research and Development Department for Honeywell in Minneapolis, MN, but shortly thereafter left Honeywell to return to his hometown in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Back in Indiana, Tom accepted a position as a programmer and engineer at Johnson Controls until 1987. From 1987 to 1998, Tom founded a controls/systems integration firm with two partners, and functioned as an engineer, salesman, vice president, and partner in this venture, Precision Control Systems of Indianapolis.
Tom had the vision of operating his own instrumentation/sales company that specialized in innovative wireless monitoring and control systems. With the experience he gained from 18 years in the controls and automation industry, Tom decided to start his own firm Logical Concepts, Inc.
Working from his garage in 1999, Tom was able to secure electronic systems integration projects from many well respected local firms such as the Indianapolis Water Company. These control system projects allowed clients to have computerized automatic control and monitoring of their industrial processes. At the time, the projects were secured to provide capital to develop a wireless, cellular monitoring device for monitoring remotely located equipment. The device was given the identity, “XR50 Wireless Alarm Monitor.”
In January 2000, Tom moved the operation to a small office in Greenwood, Indiana. For the remainder of 2000, Tom completed all automation projects that were in progress, finished the development of the XR50 wireless monitoring system, applied for a patent on the technology, and began selling the XR50 units at the beginning of 2001. At this same time, the company name “Omni-site.net” was adopted as the primary operating business unit of Logical Concepts, Inc to design, manufacture, sell and support the XR50 product.
During 2001, Tom worked tirelessly to promote this new wireless technology for monitoring remote equipment. Initial success was found in the wastewater industry. Although not a glamorous market, Tom optimized the product for use as a sewage lift station monitor. The XR50 used cellular technology in combination with the Internet to provide a low cost monitoring solution that could be completely monitored and programmed using the Internet. Omni-site sales in 2001 totaled $230,000. Sales for the XR50 equipment in 2002 were $432,000. Sales in 2005 exceeded 1 million dollars.
In 2008, the company name simplified from “Omni-site.net” to “OmniSite” and also purchased the www.omnisite.com domain name from an Indiana University professor. Accordingly, our web presence changed to www.omnisite.com . This launched OmniSite’s new logo and identity.
2012, OmniSite is a multimillion dollar/year company with 3 patents, 14 employees and products in over 1,300 Government municipalities, spanning over 5,000 field RTU units. Started it’s 1st residential based product line, PumpAlarm.com, which helps property owners prevent damage due to power outages, basement floods, and frozen pipes caused by furnace failures.
2016, the corporate headquarters moved from Greenwood, IN to a brand new 18,000 sq. ft. building on the Southside of Indianapolis. This moves brings our industrial and residential departments together and gives us space necessary to bring on 10 – 15 new employees over the next 5 years. We can also ramp up production on 6 new products that are planned to be released over the next 36 months.