Relevant Experience
Relevant Experience
Electro Technical Products, Inc. is experienced in creating products and solutions that are cost-effective, reliable, easy-to-use and well documented. Our familiarity with ISO requirements means projects get completed cost effectively with minimal slippage. We offer these examples to demonstrate how Electro Technical Products, Inc. has responded to clients' needs and created enduring solutions.
NIMS
Exer-Rest
Non Invasive Monitoring Systems has developed a
therapeutic technique for temporary relief of musculoskeletal pain associated with
osteoarthritis is a platform that repetitively moves a supine person in a head to foot
direction at about 140 times a minute with a displacement of 3/4 inch or less over a
period of 30 to 45 minutes. The hand-held controller provides digital values of speed,
travel, and time. The Exer-Rest is designed such that the user can utilize and operate it
without assistance. ETP, Inc. was directly involved in the electrical design and safety
approvals of this ISO-60601 unit.
Z-Wave
Z-Wave is a wireless, plug-and-play, home control system
being developed by the Z-Wave Alliance. Z-Wave is a 900 MHz, mesh network system, intended
to unify home control functions. ETP, Inc. has developed numerous products around this
standard, including thermostatic control, X-10 interfaces, multi channel relay I/O and USB
based tools.
ArmorPlus
ArmorPlus enhances the BlackBerry device with built-in
multi-function enterprise applications through the proprietary
integrated system boards. ArmorPlus enables BlackBerry partner applications ranging from
barcode reading, signature and fingerprint capture, credit card processing, point of sale,
GPS, and other important enterprise solutions. Solution
Technology needed a reliable partner to move their ArmorPlus platform to the next level.
ETP, Inc. stepped in and provided the expertise to get the product on track and to the
production line.
Smart Card
Applications
ETP, Inc. has been involved in multiple Contactless card and card antenna projects in both the RF ID marketplace and the Credit Card marketplace. Customer provided requirements led to unique antenna designs to satisfy their specific needs for range, reliability and size. Here are several examples of custom RF ID antennas:
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Other RF
Applications
We have done a number of proprietary radio systems for Home Detention, Access Control and the RF ID market place. Each design was built to customer specifications utilizing the latest technology to provide a cost effective and compact solution. Unique devices require unique solutions. Here is are examples of an UHF Transmitter and a GPS antenna/LNA custom tuned to operate within the customers product.
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NIOS FPGA
Designs
ETP, Inc. has been involved in FPGA designs using the Altera family of FPGA and the NIOS CPU. Here is an example of an automotive application for diesel engines. This add on board increases the horse power of the engine from 300 to 450! The unit had a CAN bus interface as well as various analog circuits to monitor exhaust temperature and modify boost pressures,
Test Fixtures
ETP, Inc. provides custom test fixtures for use during production test. Primarily functional testers, these units are tailored to the application. Here are examples of board and system level testers. The first example utilizes a stripped down final assembly as the test fixture, the second example shows an entire system test fixture, the third and fourth examples are a bed of nails unit that allow configuration, programming and system test to take place in the same fixture. ETP, Inc. has in-house design and CNC machining facilities to provide quick response to fixturing requests.
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Pepsi required a vending machine telemetry system to relay status information from its soft drink machines to the local distributing companies. The Telelink monitored and reported multiple status indicators including: total sales, sales per item, sold out, or any tampering. A major problem for the designers was where the Telelink was located — inside a vending machine where the environment is cold and humid.
Electro Technical Products, Inc. worked with a NASDAQ company to refine an interactive promotional video system for the grocery industry. The device uses graphics and a touch screen monitor to solicit marketing responses from customers as well as provide a financial services terminal. The system also employs a frequent shopper program to encourage consumer responses to marketing queries. The nationwide network is interconnected via VSAT to a main database which is able to upload and download megabytes of video and data in seconds.
Electro Technical Products, Inc. developed an RF-based modem to provide wireless data networking for firms who must be accommodated without fuss, or simply want mobility for their workstations and peripherals. Initiated by a South Florida firm, this project is intended for collecting data from office machines for billing purposes.
Electro Technical Products, Inc. designed of a fare collection system for the Puerto Rico Transit Authority. The system thwarts the efforts of embezzlers who were stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the authority's mass transit system. The system had to be complex enough to keep the embezzlers out, but simple enough for honest employees to expediently retrieve money. Our engineers also worked on designing new collection boxes for the individual busses which improve the overall security of the system.
This project involved the implementation of a radio receiver and transmitter operating under FCC part 15 that keeps the wearer of the transmitter within the receiving range of the base unit. Developed for a firm in Pennsylvania, this project is currently shipping at the rate of 200 units per month. One of the main design goals of this project was to cut the clients cost of units by 50%. The goal was exceeded, with the cost to the client being 40% of the old design.
Other design wins include commercial controls for the beverage industry. A recent winner here is a multi-cup coffee dispenser for hospitals, cafeterias and institutional use. The design had to be rugged and simple to meet the customers cost and reliability requirements. Other projects in this area include sold out detection systems, and "Value Engineered" designs to reduce the cost of existing equipment.
A cabinet manufacturing concern in Clearwater, Florida needed to automate the collection of time and attendance information for their five factory locations. They wanted the flexibility to add job costing and tracking without rewriting their off the shelf accounting system. The solution was designed around standard data collection terminals with custom terminal and applications software to weld the system into a useful management tool. The system has been in operation for more than four years.
This consumer item had to meet strict cost requirements while maintaining safety and functionality. A tough job for the small firm that wanted this product. We helped them meet all of their requirements, including the safety, mechanical and electrical design. This item also demonstrates the flexibility of Electro Technical Products, Inc. Even though this task was trivial from the electrical design standpoint, other challenges were high and required multiple talents to accomplish.
In over seventeen years of serving our customer base, there are many more successful projects, including; Pay Telephones, Mainframe Terminal Emulators, Video Cards, Irrigation Controllers, Robotics Controllers, test fixtures, etc. Too many to list here. The photos below illustrate a few more of these experiences.
