Ao.com is located in Willamette Valley in Oregon.
They provide computer software and electronic hardware for many different industrial processes, such as: access control, robotics, motion control, scientific instrumentation, and product design. Some of the projects they are running are robotic manufacturing, parallel processing development tools, electron- beam furnace operation, communication processing, environmental measurements, health care data acquisition, and real time machine tool control. Within the software design services they provide developed embedded software for portable data logger systems, developed software for controlling Electron-Beam Furnace operations, and numerous security access-control applications. On the left side of the webpage you will see some links containing hardware services, software services, as well as their projects. Among their customers there is Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Oregon Coast Aquarium, University of California, US Naval Oceanographic office, Western environmental technology labs, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, etc. 
