Client: An Engineering Company Scope of our Work: Hardware design | Firmware design | Prototype build An engineering company approached us to upgrade the electronics for their existing window opener system with a view to improve performance, reduce product cost and enable wireless controls. Electronic Partners designed and developed a motorised actuator for one of their window products. The actuator opens and closes windows by pushing (or pulling) a chain. The chain is driven using a standard DC (brushed) motor via a cog. Our scope of work involved designing the electronics to control th ..read more

Client: Scope of our Work: Hardware design | Firmware design | Prototype build and assembly Skinspots had a great idea of publicly displaying the ultraviolet index of the sun at any point during the day so that beach goers in New Zealand can appropriately dress to protect themselves from the harsh sun. They also wanted the UV index to be displayed on their website so that people will be aware of the UV index before heading over to the beach. They had bought and installed an off the shelf UV meter on the Maunganui beach, but it was fraught with battery and communication problems. Hence, they ..read more

Client: Scope of our Work: Hardware design | Firmware design | Prototype build | Design for manufacture | Mobile App development As part of a research project, the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences of the University of Auckland wanted us to develop suitable electronics for measuring the electrical rhythm arising due to contractions of organs in the human body. Just like the heart, there are other parts of the human body that undergo contractions that are accompanied by an electrical rhythm. By measuring the patterns of these electrical rhythms, it is possible for a physician to determi ..read more

Client: Auto-Floc, New Zealand Scope of our Work: Hardware design | Prototype build | PCB Production | Box assembly Auto-Floc utilises innovative technologies offering automated chemical treatment to sediment laden run-off. Auto-Floc eliminates health and safety and sustainability issues traditionally associated with chemical dosing. Their patented technology allows for a quick installation with a battery powered system charged through solar and capable of being managed remotely with a cloud interface. Our scope of work involved the design of the electronics hardware and preproduction ..read more

Client: Scope of our Work: Hardware design | Firmware design | Services The Project Management Institute provides educational credits to its members when they attend their conferences. The educational credits, called Professional Development Units enables PMI’s members to maintain their certification credentials. PMI NZ approached us to design and implement a solution using which they could gather session attendance data of delegates at their conference in an unobtrusive manner. We designed a solution that senses the presence of delegates in each session of the conference and transmit ..read more

Client: Scope of our Work: Software design & development | User Training | Support services BLB Consultants chose us to implement an innovative idea to increase the sales of their client’s products. In its basic form, it is an automated, over the counter product vending and dispensing system with a highly intuitive user interface built on an Android tablet. Our scope of work involved the design, development, implementation, training, and support for this system. At the back end, the system has a web portal running on the cloud, using which office staff can monitor sales and stocks and r ..read more

So you have a great idea. In fact, it’s the perfect idea. Following hours of market research, coffee-fueled brainstorming sessions and more than a few false starts, you feel like you’ve finally landed on a concept that could connect with an audience, solve a problem, or fill a niche…but now what? Taking those ideas from concept through to reality, however, requires a very specific set of skills. Ideas? They’re a dime a dozen. Whether those ideas are worth more than the paper they’re scribbled on depends entirely on your ability to execute on these concepts. This process can be int ..read more

So, you or your team have an idea for an electronic product, device or application. What’s more, you’re pretty sure – no, absolutely certain – that it will revolutionise, if not the world, then your back pockets. After all, you’ve done the hard yards. You’ve identified a gap in the market, you’ve carried out the necessary research, and you’ve established a viable product that will meet this need. The problem? You don’t have the manpower, tools or expertise to bring this product to life, let alone to market. So where to from here? How do you go about turning that idea into a potential moneym ..read more

A significant number of development projects have a wireless component. There are many different wireless technologies available, including Wi-Fi, GSM, RFID, Bluetooth, 2.4G custom protocols and Personal Area Networks. Personal Area Networks use a high level communication protocols to create area networks built from small, low-power digital radio-enabled devices. Personal Area Networks in particular have been growing in popularity; this is due to a number of factors: ◦ Small form factor ◦ Flexibility ◦ Low power solutions available ◦ Low complexity improves reliability An expansion port with ..read more

A traditional data logger presents the data as either plain text, comma-separated values (CSV), or Extensible Mark-up Language (XML). Files in these formats work well if you have supporting software to process data, but, if you are looking for a quick way of distributing a file, that anyone can open, a Portable Document Format (PDF) is more suitable. This is because data is presented in a consistent and easy to manage manner; instead of a wall of text the user can be presented with, for example, a clearly laid out summary, plots and images. Anyone can easily open or distribute the data witho ..read more