Real Time Designs

Services

Real Time Designs is ready to assist you with your Engineering needs, be they -

A short term contract to bring back on track a runaway project, or
Full Product Development of a 'great idea' form concept through to manufacture, or
To to provide an 'overflow' Engineering Design Service when your in-house engineers are swamped.

Our staff is highly skilled and motivated and ready to exceed your expectations. We communicate with our clients to answer any questions they may have - if we don't know we'll tell you (and then go and find out!)

Engineering Consultancy

Requirement Capture, System Architecture and Design
Technical Project Management
Team Lead and Mentoring
Software Engineering Contracting (Design and Development of PC based Software Systems in C/C++,VB & C# & VB.NET)
(Design and Development of Embbeded Systems in C/C++)
Research and Development
Technical Documentation, Training and Review. Technical and User Manuals. Documentation for Manufacture.

Product Development

Product Design from concept to manufacture.
Experienced Engineers that understand designed for manufacture
Microcontroller based control systems.
Electronics and PCB Design (using Altium Designer (& Protel 99SE)
Embedded Software Development in C or Assembler for the following
- Atmel AVR range of Micros. (using ImageCraft C or CodeVision)
- Texas Instruments MSP430 range of Low Power Micros. (using Rowley CrossWorks)
- NXP (Philips) LPC 2xx range of ARM Based Micros. (using Rowley CrossWorks)
- Motorola 68HC11, 68HC05x, 68K (using Hitech C)
- Hitachi/Renesas H8S H8-300, SH4 (Using IAR and Hitachi HEW)
Specialising in Real-Time Control & Communication Systems
Serial Communication Protocols and Converters (RS484 Links, RF links, design and implementation of proprietary protocols)
Industrial Control and Monitoring Systems. Both 'hard-realtime' machine control systems as well as 'soft-realtime' manufacturing assistance systems.
Embedded Ethernet solutions over proprietary protocols or TCP/IP
Dallas iButton and 1wire Integration and Product Development.
Man-Machine Interfaces. Keypads, Displays (LCD, LED VFD), Mechanical Case Design.
Remote Monitoring/Reporting using GSM/GPRS.
Short Range RF Comms (433MHz,868MHz & 2.4GHz) for Access Contorl/Remote Keyless Entry.

PC Based Control and Monitoring Software

Microsoft Windows Based Applications developed in Visual Studio 2003/2005 using C# (Also very capable with MFC (C/C++) & VB6)
Manufacturing Test Systems.
Mission Critical Applications for monitoring and control of process and/or systems
Specialist in integrating shop-floor equipment with back office systems.
Database design and implementation.
Bar-coding systems. RFID Systems. Palm PC based software solutions
Development of real time, mission critical system using the QNX RTOS

Industries/Technologies

Industrial Control and Monitoring
Security Industry (Control Room Monitoring Software and Systems)
Healthcare (Resident Care Monitoring and Reporting Systems)
Financial Services ('Interactive Multimedia' POS/EFT Terminal)
Gaming Industry (Gaming Machine Control Software, Player Management Systems)
Product/Asset Tracking, Warehouse Management and Control.
Baggage Handing Control Systems