Our History

Still a privately held company, OSI was founded in 1992 by a group of innovators with a vision to create a company dedicated to delivering true open systems products and quality client service to the utility marketplace.

Since then, OSI has become a clear innovative leader in the field of utility automation. OSI has been an innovator in the large-scale utility automation industry, bringing total platform and hardware independence to an industry plagued by proprietary systems and single-source platform dependence. Since then, OSI has been a trend setter and has pushed the technological envelope in the industry. OSI has been the first to offer:

A modular and open architecture (monarch) on UNIX in 1994
A total Windows-based automation platform for large-scale operations in 1996
A total IP-based interface for communications to field devices in 1996
A geographically distributed communications architecture in 1997
A Web-based user interface in 1998
Total RDBMS independence and support for multiple RDBMSs in 1999
Total operating system independence and support for all prominent operating systems in 1999
Support for the Linux operating system in 2002
A Linux-based Secure Remote Terminal Unit in 2004
A Graphical User Interface architecture based on Microsoft's .NET technology in 2006