Case Studies by Technology

Petrovend
Enhancement of EPOS back-office software for a card-based fuel vending system. The work included addition of fuel tank alarm and monitoring features.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®NT
Development Skill: Application

Meggitt Petroleum Systems
Firmware to integrate a bank note acceptor into an OPT (outdoor payment terminal).

Operating System: FlexOS
Development Skill: Embedded

Petrovend
Prototyping, design and implementation of a major application for unmanned petrol stations. The system controls and manages card operated automated vending of fuel on a petrol station forecourt, and interfaces between fuel pump controllers and card readers, and provides full back-office EPOS functionality. Dual hot-swappable machines provide excellent resilience and integrity for critical financial data. In the event of a critical error, engineers can be automatically warned by SMS messaging.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®NT
Development Skill: Application Time critical

Petrovend
Enhancement of EPOS back-office software for a card-based fuel vending system. The work included addition of fuel tank alarm and monitoring features.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®NT
Development Skill: Application

VG Scientific
Windows NT COM Service to drive various 'stage controllers' attached to a PC using a serial interface. The stages hold silicon wafers within a lithography machine. We also developed an MMC plug in to allow convenient configuration and calibration of the stage.

Operating System: Windows®NT
Development Skill: Application

Nexan
Design and development of various software components for a heart-monitoring product. Areas worked on included CE consultancy and configuration, a serial communications protocol, database object and TCP/IP proxies for dial-up communications.

Operating System: Windows®CE
Development Skill: Comms Protocols Embedded Device Drivers Windows application

JTL
Nodal unit to monitor the temperature of food cabinets and report back to a central computer over a multi-dropped RS485 network.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Embedded Time critical

JTL
Compact low cost system to monitor the temperature status of up to seven chilled or frozen food cabinets and satisfy legal requirement for hard copy record. A standalone firmware solution was developed based on an Intel 8051 with on-chip ADC and involved A-D algorithms to determine temperature difference from input and output sensors, a driver for a paper roll printer and raising amber through green alerts when readings fall outside beyond pre-defined limits.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Embedded Comms Protocols Time critical

Broaderline
Investigation and selection of the optimum processor for a very low cost internet enabled device.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Comms Protocols

Bridgwater Electronics
This client supplies automotive instrumentation to the car industry. Extending the range of existing KPH to MPH conversion firmware for a PIC microcontroller enabling its use in a wider ramge of imported vehicles.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Embedded

Ashby Microsystems
A data acquisition program for the SAPPAR pile driver project. Data acquired for force, frequency, depth, etc as concrete piles are driven into the ground.

Operating System: MSDOS
Development Skill: Application

A leading developer of educational equipment
Development of a portable scientific data logger designed to be easy to use in a school classroom. Features include 2-button operation, data stored on removable memory cards, automatic scaling and adjustment of sampling rate depending on available memory.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Embedded Comms Protocols Time critical

An international flow meter manufacturer
Translation of an application which provides logging facilities for a serially connected water flow meter. The application was translated into French, German and Spanish. The contract was awarded to us because the customer was not experienced in the techniques needed to develop localised Windows applications.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®NT Windows®2000
Development Skill: Internationalisation

Petrovend
Implementation of a configuration and alarm reporting utility for industrial Petrol Station Fuel-Monitoring equipment. Supports multiple industry-standard protocols for a broad range of different tank gauges and alarm condition sensors. Alarm conditions can be automatically reported directly to an off-site engineer via a dial-up connection.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®NT E
Development Skill: Comms Protocols Application Internationalisation

Distell
Complete platform port and application development for a handheld food analyzer. The device uses microwave spectral analysis to determine fat and water content of food samples.

Operating System: Windows®CE
Development Skill: Embedded