Your idea is becoming a reality! The funding has arrived (just in time…), the focus groups loved the concepts, and the prototypes are finally working (mostly). It’s time to get working on the production version and start selling. But here are some steps that if skipped can significantly delay production: 1.) Skip the Requirements Review: […]

In the broadest sense, the Internet of Things involves connecting objects to the internet instead of people. There are no rules for How the connection is made, How Often the connection is made, or the Direction of the data flow. The Thing is defined, but its relationship to the Internet is not. Some Things only […]

CR Control Systems produces marine lanterns for navigation purposes. Their lanterns can be mounted on floating buoys or marine structures, and provide bright LED lights that flash in unique patterns as required by the customer’s application. The lights can be powered by batteries that are charged with solar panels for remote and floating buoy installations. […]

Pivitec is a cutting edge developer of high-end audio equipment for the professional and commercial audio industry. They developed a product line of multichannel Input and Mixer modules that communicate using the new Ethernet AVB standard. Some of the challenges in their designs are co-locating sensitive audio signals on the same board as high-speed Ethernet […]

A Fortune 500 company approached us with a design that included an Ethernet PHY chip that was obsolete and going end of life. They asked MSRK Design to find a newer part that could fit into their existing design with a minimum of changes to the rest of the circuitry. And the resulting design needed […]

Bluetooth systems are growing in popularity for wirelessly connecting sensors in factories, office buildings, and industrial settings to computers that gather the data for analysis and control. While the Bluetooth system is robust, there is often custom firmware installed in the Bluetooth devices, and sometimes that firmware has issues or needs improvements. One of our […]