Case Studies by Markets

An airport security system supplier
Development of an application which provides automated transmission of image files using standard internet protocols.

Operating System: Windows®2000
Development Skill: Application

High-speed network component supplier
Investigation and implementation of Windows 2000 drivers for a portable high-speed network analyser. The original drivers for this product had been found to be unreliable on some laptops: our replacement drivers provided a complete solution to the problem.

Operating System: Windows®2000
Development Skill: Device Drivers

Sinetica
Development of a very low cost module to act as an intelligent network-managed device. The unit was designed to monitor and control a variety of serial devices, such as UPSs and building environmental controls. These devices can then be remotely managed and controlled via several different network protocols, including SNMP, HTTP and Telnet.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Embedded Comms Protocols Web application

Oxford Instruments
Development of an API 'wrapper' for an NT device driver to enable the customer's Windows 95 application to run under NT. This approach saved our customer a great deal of time and money by avoiding the need to make changes to a family of large legacy applications. The API communicates with industrial PLC devices to control a machine for manufacturing silicon wafers, and our software was fully multi-threaded to achieve the desired response times.

Operating System: Windows®NT
Development Skill: Device Drivers Comms Protocols Porting

Net Voyager
Consultancy and development for a variety of low-cost X86 based products aimed at home web browsing and terminals to Windows application servers. Products use both embedded Linux and Windows CE 3.0 with Microsoft WBT (Windows Based Terminal) thin client software.

Operating System: Embedded Linux Windows®CE
Development Skill: Embedded Windows application