Impact
Custom sensor development
Off-the-shelf sensors span a huge range of functions and price points, but circumstances often demand a new type of measurement or manufacturing approach.
Our custom sensor development covers everything from high-reliability sensing for ultra-harsh environments to low-cost, low-power consumer devices.
Diverse technologies
With a broad range of expertise and an impartial, technology agnostic approach, we work across the whole spectrum of sensing, selecting the optimum solution for the challenge at hand. Our work in the sensing space includes physical modelling (computational flow dynamics and finite element), analysis for new sensing principles and developing innovative machine vision and machine learning systems for robotics, agriculture and industry.
High-performance, low-cost sensors
The availability of cheap yet powerful microcontrollers and GPUs has enabled much more value to be derived from commodity parts such as CMOS cameras, accelerometers and magnetic sensors.
Through value engineering of established designs, and by using novel DSP algorithms to extract more data, we are able to deliver huge leaps forward in performance while reducing costs.
Experience
Classical to cutting-edge
Our sensing experience spans classical physics and electronics through to the latest deep learning techniques. This is underpinned by a keen understanding of the physical and commercial fundamentals that make finished products competitive and efficient.
Our sensing expertise is spread across our Boston, MA and Cambridge, UK offices. While our Boston team has particularly strong mechatronic skills, our Cambridge team leads the way in algorithms and large system integration.
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Tech, tools & facilities
Chemistry labs
Our chemistry labs provide dedicated facilities for industrial, consumer, food chemistry and fluidics research and development. Our microfluidics lab features specialist equipment including our Plant Design Management System (PDMS), Spraytec laser diffraction droplet size analyser and Matersizer particle size analyser. Meanwhile, our beverage lab and wet and dry labs cater for the unique requirements of rapid food-safe prototype development.
食品与饮料实验室
拥有一家满足食品饮料安全规范而设计的专门的实验室，意味着我们具备在内部开展新产品开发和测试工作所需的必要程序和设备。虽然定量化的科学检测是我们以科学为引导的创新策略的基础，但是味道测试终归是一个始终绕不开的主题。这是我们所有实验室中唯一一间不但允许而且会要求工作人员进食的实验室！
Electronic production
Our flexible, responsive, and agile manufacturing facilities are ideally suited to electronic and electromechanical product builds, enabling us to rapidly build short product runs to an extremely high quality. We can build our own PCBAs using industrial representative equipment and ensure manufacturability during design. Having our own EPD facility is also extremely helpful in development, driving out DfX activities in eCAD and feeding test results back into the design process from an early stage.
光学实验室
我们有完整的光学实验室，可以建立复杂的、高精度的、通常用于测试原型设计以及在部署新技术对其进行测试的光学布局。实验室设有六个高规格的光学工作台，附带大功率（4 级）激光作业的可配置型互锁控制区以及用于实施进行干涉测量、光谱、低噪声荧光成像和光子计数的专业设施。实验室空间可以被划分成若干个独立的激光控制区域以同时开展多项实验，使得我们的光学工程师在开发富有创意的解决方案的过程中不受仪器限制。
原型制作车间
我们有自己的电子和机械生产车间，可以生产出有技术可靠的原型机，从而将创意变为现实，有力地展现它们的价值。与此同时，车间维持极高的质量标准，符合 ISO 9001、ISO 13485 和 ISO 14001 规章的要求。这些车间具备最新的 CNC 和铣床、车床、焊接装置、线束和电缆装配工具，因此我们能够非常迅速地生产出部件并且组装出全尺寸的工作原型机以作测试和消费者试用。
软件工具
我们使用一系列专业软件进行基于模型的设计和模拟。其中包括 MathWorks Matlab 和 Simulink（包括自动代码生成和 GPU 加速）、dSPACE 用于进行基于模型的设计，机电系统的环内硬件测试和开发软件以及用于进行多相流模拟的 CFD 解决方案，包括 COMSOL Multiphysics。我们采用 ANSYS Maxwell 和 HFSS、CST Studio 和 Microwave Office 等有限元套件包进行全波、传输线和静磁模拟。我们还使用一个专门的计算集群来进行机器学习、神经网络训练和连续验证。