Past Projects
- RICA Terminal. Spill-proof QWERTY keypad and 3.5" colour display in an enclosure together with a GSM modem to RICA SIM cards.
- IPAV Systems. Design and develop hardware and software solution.
- Fuel Monitor. Small package, low-power. Monitors fuel-levels with off-the-shelf fuel-sensors. Stores fuel level data for up to 35 days sampled at 15 second intervals. Data retrieval via USB in format suitable for direct import into spreadsheet.
- Vehicle Tracking System with Driver Terminal. Sophisticated system with high GPRS uptime and continuous server connection, CAN-bus monitoring, accelerometer, immobiliser control.
- Industrial Inspection System. Design combines a multi-processor, multi-board system with real-time and GUI components. Linux on PowerPC and ARM with RTOS. Sub-systems include imaging with mega-pixel image-processing on Blackfin processors from Analog Devices. All hardware and software designed by us to customer specification.
- Outdoor Wireless CPE. Supports the IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g wireless LAN standards and offers exceptional bandwidth at a very low cost. Designed and developed locally in South Africa it uses the latest Intel Network Processor (IXP425) with XScale technology, running a customized, embedded version of Linux. Power is supplied using Power-Over-Ethernet. The resulting installation requires a single CAT5 cable, reducing costs and infrastructure requirements.
- MP3-player with GPS and FM transmitter which form a Tourism Information System. Hardware and software designed, developed and implemented by us.
- Vehicle Tracking Platform - analysis of existing software leading to addition of defensive coding to avoid runtime problems, bug fixes, improvements to GPS handling. Resulted in a product that is robust and reliable for GAP
- Software platform for Freescale MX1 for Astrata Systems. Design and implement bootloader. Port Linux kernel to this platform. Low-level drivers for LCD, GSM, USB, Keypad, Flash. Vibrator, CODEC.
- Atmel 91, boatloader and ported uCLinux kernel to vehicle tracking platform for Astrata Systems.
- Network Camera Imaging solution. This design adds audio and video streaming capabilities across a LAN, to a PXA255 processor with 64Mbytes of RAM and 32MBytes of flash memory. A CMOS imager generates 15 frames per second at 640x480 24-bit colour resolution. Software adds motion-detection and a host of other features to allow full control of multiple cameras across a network.
- Machine Vision Platform. Provided an Intel StrongARM-based processing platform for client EDH to host an imaging daughter-board and become their ArmCam product. Solution uses a combination of Linux and RTAI to achieve realtime processing of images.