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DEFENCE & SECURITY

Armour Integrity Monitoring System

Answering a Defence Science and Technology Laboratory research call to reduce the 100% need to return body armour for x-ray analysis, we developed an infield integrity monitoring and testing sensor.

TRANSPORT

Millimetre-Wave Radar for Foreign Object Detection

Our recent studies into millimetre-wave radar enabled us to produce a dual fixed and mobile antenna solution capable of detecting objects and movements from a fixed radar range of 400m.

TRANSPORT

Tyre Pressure Monitoring

The new build-measure-learn approach reduced the development cycle from months to weeks and the actionable metrics helped streamline the right actions at the right time.

UTILITIES & ENERGY

Smart City Street Lighting Infrastructure

The challenge was to deliver a license free radio system to allow communication between hundreds of thousands of nodes over citywide areas, all with minimal running costs.

CONSUMER

Finding Technical Competitive Advantage

Our client asked us to tear down a range of the existing products in the marketplace to help them understand if any of the incumbents had a technical competitive advantage.

INDUSTRIAL IOT

Electronics Manufacturing

We pride ourselves on delivering fully tested production hardware and take the strain of this process off clients by managing on-going issues.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Future Sensing: Improving Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET)

Plextek are leading a team of experts from academia to investigate crosslayer processing to enable Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) radio systems to utilise directional antenna techniques.

CONSUMER

Revolutionising Car Infotainment

Clarion approached Plextek to design and develop this radical new product which became the Clarion AX1.

HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL

Wearable Tech for early Detection & Prevention of Hearing Damage

Plextek has developed an innovative wearable demonstrator system for early detection of noise induced hearing loss, potentially allowing the subject to take immediate remedial action and thereby prevent the condition.

CONSUMER

Developing New Microwave Technology

Over the following 9 months a joint team from the customer, a key component partner and Plextek designed and developed a fully functional unit.

TRANSPORT

Intelligent Mobility

Plextek assisted Cranfield University in its £1.2 million pound HumanDrive Connected and Autonomous Vehicle project.

CONSUMER

How can we successfully innovate in connected products?

CamelBak wanted to understand how other natively ‘physical’ product companies successfully made the transition to complementary connected offerings.

UTILITIES & ENERGY

Sensor Monitoring of Manhole Infrastructures

Plextek supported the design and manufacturing of a sensor array capable of operating in this harsh environment.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Millimetre-Wave Micro-Radar for Persistent Situational Awareness

Plextek assessed the potential of mm-wave radar, in a form compact enough to deploy on a small drone, to provide sense-to-avoid data.

CONSUMER

Project Cubert

Plextek designed the electrical solution to worldwide safety and EMC regulatory standards from the outset, without impacting the product capability or cost.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Visual Camouflage

An adaptive visual display architecture that can be used for camouflage and signage in a variety of situations.

UTILITIES & ENERGY

Smart Utility Meters

Plextek were contracted to independently assess the requirements, the radio link budget and the performance of different Smart Meters to help ensure correct system operation.

INDUSTRIAL IOT

Test System for 5G Broadband

We worked with a broadband company that is developing an ecosystem of products designed to simplify and improve our connected lives.

CONSUMER

New technology to transform luxury products

Our customer wanted to understand how a given technology might revolutionise their existing product offering and the new areas where it could play and win with the technology.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Communicating Across Surfaces

Plextek designed, simulated and fabricated a number of metamaterial surfaces. We also investigated the use of metamaterials for the propagation of RF energy via surface waves.

TRANSPORT

Smart City Parking System

Our client approached Plextek to deliver the key enabling technologies for a system to detect occupancy in on-street parking spaces.

UTILITIES & ENERGY

Energenie Smart Home Controller

The company asked Plextek to redesign the interface of its infrared controllers to enable the upgraded product functionality but using a radio link, rather than infrared.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Duplex Radio for Emergency Services

Plextek to designed and developed a dual mode (digital and analogue) device from the ground up.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Future Sensing – FPGA-Based SOC Imaging

Evaluations of real-time image processing functions and to simultaneously demonstrate the latest adaptive capabilities that FPGA-based SoCs

CONSUMER

High-End Gaming Device

Our customer had a bold idea – a high-end gaming device unlike anything else on the market.

UTILITIES & ENERGY

Multi-sensor Pod Design for Telensa

We developed the mechanical and aesthetic design for a multi-sensor pod as part of the Urban Data Project.

HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL

Real-Time Monitoring of Patients in Challenging Environments

Our client wanted to develop an ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor that could record and transmit information from adult patients undergoing treatment in a hospital.

TRANSPORT

Vehicle Asset Management System

Vehicle Asset Management System (VAM) products enable efficient management of vehicular fleets and offer driver-behaviour monitoring for the vehicle insurance markets.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Microwave Camera for Detecting Hidden Objects

A research study into the improvement of aviation security and screening procedures at airport checkpoints.

TRANSPORT

Sensors for Automatic Passenger Counting

A leading transport systems company asked us to find a better way to track passenger movements in and out of train and underground carriages.

INDUSTRIAL IOT

Immersive Technology for Complex Systems Training

Our client required a cost-effective training system to ensure specialist procedures were followed

UTILITIES & ENERGY

Drone Inspection of Solar Farms

Our client, Above Surveying, approached Plextek to improve their inspection methods, previously a labour intensive activity performed by highly trained analysts.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Customer Friend

Plextek secured a contract to survey some specific video camera and wireless communications technology areas and to propose solutions to a number of operational problems.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Distributed Real Time Spectrum Monitoring

Plextek’s distributed spectrum monitoring system is a new and powerful platform for monitoring interference issues at high value sites.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Surveillance Radar for Comprehensive Threat Detection

Plextek utilised Passive Electronically Scanned Arrays (PESA) for electronic scanning combining Doppler processing.

INDUSTRIAL IOT

Millimetre-Wave Radar System

The novel antenna for the mm-wave radar incorporates Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology within a multi-layer, low-loss, microwave laminate.

HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL

Cost-Effective Technology Development

Plextek electronics team developed an ultra-low cost but highly precise microcontroller that accurately regulates the temperature of the fluid column.

HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL

Commercialising Medical Innovation

PneumaCare asked Plextek to take their early prototype system through to manufacture, including regulatory approvals.

INDUSTRIAL IOT

A Passive Radar Identification Tag for Unambiguous Object Localisation

Plextek produced a comprehensive study on a low size, weight and power tagging system and PoC which can bounce back a unique radar signal in order to provide exact object and vehicle localisation and recognition.