I once spent many years (well about 2) slaving away inside Philips/NXP trying to pursuade: a) phone manufacturers to put NFC into something other than the Nokia 6131 (see Nokia NFC history) to drive applications b) app developers to deploy uses for NFC that would drive integration into phones In fact I remember corridor conversations
We now offer a range of solutions to allow logging and visualisation of data produced by various connected devices. Examples of data are: Temperature Wind Blood pressure Tidal gauge Internal combustion engine monitoring Surveys and quizzes Logging is to a full relational database supporting complex queries and export. These devices can be connected via GPRS,
Salisbury Foundation Trust issued this press release announcing the new Friends and Family Test app we are piloting with them. With real time results of the FFT available on a staff facing dashboard. As well as feedback, the app provides a point of reference for information, news, maps and contacts. Patients, visitors and staff are finding
Since iPhone 4S, iPad3 and iPod 5th Generation, iOS devices have shipped with Bluetooth Low energy (also called Bluetooth Smart or Bluetooth 4.0). This is supported from iOS 5 by the CoreBluetooth framework. Support for BLE has quickly created an eco system of BLE tracker ‘keyfob’ devices and associated Bluetooth smartphone apps. Examples are HipKey,
A new software developer joins us Fresh out of the company (Entropic) that was bought by the company (Trident Tech) that was spun out of the company (NXP) that was spun out of Philips Southampton is Brian Griffiths. Brian has many years of experience in software and app development for mobile, desktop, set top box
Long busy summer A quick update on some of the activities at Winchester Innovation this summer. We are now members of the Microsoft BizSpark programme. So we have been using the latest tools and software from Microsoft. And very good it is too. One of our current projects involves MS technology on board the Pieter
Smartphone convergence in one picture Wired Magazine have produced a great chart showing all the devices that have sprung up over the years and are now converged into the modern smartphone. Funny thing is that there are probably more than on this graphic. Anyway, here is the link: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/06/20-years-of-wired/convergence. During my time in Philips Semiconductors we
BGS Smartphone Conference Yesterday, Nick Thorne gave a presentation to the British Geological Survey Smartphone Apps, Maps and Augmented Reality Conference about the anyTide app. This was a great opportunity to discuss the process of taking anyTide from concept to a published app. In particular, the steps of elaborating the user experience in terms of
Custom reporting Over the last few weeks we have been chasing up a requirement from a customer that is proving to be an interesting challenge. We have created an app that gathers a data set over the course of a week. This data is uploaded to server side mySQL tables as per usual. The next
anyTide anywhere anyplace We are pleased to announce the arrival of anyTide fresh into Apple App Store. More info here. "Tidal predictions anywhere along the UK coast that can also be used offline via the use of bookmarks." Its been an interesting process going from a blank-ish drawing board to this fully fledged universal tide
