DEFENCE & SECURITY

Armour Integrity Monitoring

With defence, security and police personnel safety in mind, we developed AIMs™, a solution which reduces the need for costly routine x-ray analysis of armour plates.

TRANSPORT

mm-Wave Radar for Airports

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

CONSUMER

NextGen Car Infotainment

Clarion approached Plextek to design and develop this radical new product. We realised their dream which launched as the Clarion AX1.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Improving Mobile Networks

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

TRANSPORT

Intelligent Mobility

Plextek assisted Cranfield University in its £1.2 million pound HumanDrive Connected and Autonomous Vehicle project which has completed a complex real-world journey that is both driverless and human-like.

CONSUMER

Successful innovation for 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.

HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL

Connecting Patients to their Carers

How can you monitor the vital signs of vulnerable people without causing them concern?  We developed a customer-centric telehealth solution that provides key data to healthcare providers.

CONSUMER

Smart Home Office Device

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

CONSUMER

Technology to transform luxury products

Our customer wanted to understand how a given technology might revolutionise their existing product offering.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Communicating Across Surfaces

Plextek have designed, simulated and fabricated a number of metamaterial surfaces and investigated their use for the propagation of RF energy.

UTILITIES & ENERGY

Smart Home Controller

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

UTILITIES & ENERGY

Ensuring the Future Safety of Windfarms

We were tasked to investigate the use of the latest in machine learning techniques to better enable detection and tracking of potential risks in the vicinity of a wind farm.

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Duplex Radio for Emergency Services

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

DEFENCE & SECURITY

Microwave Camera for Detecting Hidden Objects

We were asked to conduct 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

We supported our client who required a cost-effective realistic training system to ensure specialist procedures were followed.

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 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

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

INDUSTRIAL

Marine Tracker

ATLAS Telecom has instructed Plextek as part of their next generation E-Passport programme to deliver a highly innovative marine tracker solution.

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.

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.