Updating and maintaining a 20 year old codebase as well as working to create a new product. This involves complex real-time control mechanisms to ensure proper breath delivery (Rate, Volume, Time, Patient Feedback, Clinician Targets, etc). Every possible origin of failure is accounted for and mitigated. Class 3C devices.

Tech. Overview

• Multiple Control PIDs

• Digital Filtering Sensor Data

• Fail-safe Design

• Custom Cooperative Scheduler and freeRTOS

Outcome

Precise and real-time geolocation of a patient accompanied by key patient vitals delivered to a local hub over Bluetooth before being passed to a cloud-base backend. Development of end device and infrastructure devices was included. (Class 2B)

Tech. Overview

• Ultra-Low Power Design

• Heartrate, spO2, movement monitoring, position (UWB)

• Wireless Charging

• Signal Analysis

• BLE

• Zephyr RTOS

Outcome

Relaying filtered data (brain waves, head movement, heart rate) to computer over Bluetooth and reacting in real-time via audio & haptic feedback. This product is used to treat PTSD and other mental disorders. (Class 2B)

Tech. Overview

• Dual Role Bluetooth (A2DP + BLE)

• Custom BLE OTA

• Digital Filtering on EEG & Accelerometer Data

• User Streamed Audio & Pre-recorded Sounds

• Multiple Unique Haptic Feedback Patterns

• freeRTOS

Outcome

Lighting designed to aid in the commercial agricultural industry by either supplementing light for the low-light months or being used as the sole light source. The light collects data from its surrounding to calculate and deliver a predetermined wavelength profile including intensity following a long term recipe system. It also collected key data on the plants performance and  

Tech. Overview

• High Power Design (Several kW)

• Real-time Analysis and Feedback

• Long-term Recipe Keeping

• Self-healing WiFi Mesh

• Linux

Outcome

Collecting data on machines including up-time, down-time, maintenance-time, power usage, production speed, and product quantity produced before relaying the information to a local server over a wireless mesh network. 

This involved integrating with a wide range of machinery to produce a consistent, dependable, and uniform solution.

Tech. Overview

• freeRTOS

• Digital Signal Processing

• Metrics Tracking

• Wireless Mesh Networking

Outcome

The server can process variable tasks from rendering, decrypting, specialized analysis, and more. Each server had a linux based SoC managing a fleet of onboard fpga. Some RAM is mapped directly to FPGA and some RAM is mapped through a memory manager. This allowed for large central data caches used across multiple FPGAs.  

Tech. Overview

• Linux, FPGA, & Super-loop

• Custom Memory Manager

• PCIe, DDR4 RAM, eMMC, FPGA

• Flexible Multi-Program FPGA

• High Temperature and Power Design

Outcome

Reliably moving fuel in dynamic environments. This includes temperature, pressure, and humidity along with varying liquid viscosity and up/down-line pressures. The final solution required robust engineering and failure-state analysis/understanding.

Tech. Overview

• Diverse Requirements

• Multiple Control PIDs

• Digital Signal Processing

• Super-loop

Outcome

The sensor reads, filters, conditions, and packages data to be read out via CANBus by further processes. 

Tech. Overview

• Digital Signal Processing

• CANBus

• Super-loop Firmware

Outcome

A kitchen-top automated brewing solution. The unit controls pressure and temperature profiles along with an agitator to follow a recipe . Along the way machine data and user intervention requirements are reported out to a cloud backend. A number of creative solutions were implemented to circumvent countertop and home based use. A hosted WiFi server is used for device setup and a client is 

Tech. Overview

• WiFi Server and Client

• Custom Over-The-Air Firmware Updater

• Multiple Control PIDs

• Long-term Recipe Following 

• Multi-Core Processor

• ThreadX & WICED

Outcome

A smaller kitchen based unit that controls light, temperature, and agitation profiles following a recipe while  in use. The company invented an enzymatic formulation to rapidly age spirits requiring very precise conditions. Data and user interactions are coordinated through a cloud based backend. BLE is used for device setup and WiFi is used for server interactions.

Tech. Overview

• BLE Peripheral & WiFi Client

• Multiple Control PIDs

• Digital Signal Processing

• Long-term Recipe Following

Outcome

A lightweight device to be worn under a watch to extend smartwatch functionality to traditional watches. 

Tech. Overview

• BLE Over-The-Air Firmware Updater

• Battery Management Algorithms

• Step & Tap Detection

• ANCS & AMS communications

• Multiple Unique Haptic Feedback Patterns

• Zephyr RTOS

Outcome