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AcuShot Inc awards needle-free injector contract to EngenuitySep 5, 2007
AcuShot Inc. of Winnipeg has chosen Engenuity to develop the next generation of controller for its needle-free injector. This device is a handheld, battery-powered injector used with cows and pigs, capable of handling any injectable medication and avoiding the issue of cross- contamination common with injectors that use needles.
The new design will involve lower cost and more integrated electronics and software with enhanced features. Engenuity will use its extensive experience in embedded system design to deliver a robust solution that meets key requirements in the area of system performance.
Our approach to embedded design, both the hardware and the software, ensures the result is built on a framework that can evolve easily to meet future needs without needing redesign.
Lily Li awarded Master's degrees from UW
June 16, 2007
Engenuity's own Lily Li has been awarded a Master's degree from the
department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Lily's thesis
is The Efficacy of Source Rate Control in
Achieving Fairness in Wireless Mesh Networks.
Lily began her course-work at Waterloo in 2002, supervised by Dr. Paul Ward, and worked full-time while completing the degree using evenings, weekends, and vacation time. She is very, very happy finally to be done!
Lily was also awarded a valuable NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (PGSD3) but has not yet decided to accept the offer and continue on with another degree.
City of Toronto BOD robot ships
April 2, 2007
Our automation partner, Turnkey Automation Inc., has delivered the BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) testing robot, developed for the City of Toronto. The team at Engenuity Corporation provided the software that controls the robot.
The BOD robot automates a Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) testing method for measuring pollution content of water samples. Trays of bottles in the robot are aged under controlled temperature and humidity conditions. At a predetermined time the robot wakes up and systematically processes the bottles, automatically calibrating a probe, decapping the bottles, and performing the measurements according to a precise algorithm.
The software provided by Engenuity for this system was written in the Python programming language and structured around our asynchronous control system framework, Bent. Bent was inspired by the Twisted asynchronous framework but is highly specialized for these sorts of complex automation and control systems.
To learn more about how Engenuity can help your control system ship with high quality software, please contact us and ask about our agile approach to development.
Engenuity helps improve DrProject
January 15, 2007
The DrProject project has arranged with Engenuity to make some improvements to the code in preparation for further enhancements this summer.
DrProject is a fork of the Open Source Trac tool, an "enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects". DrProject was inspired by DrJava and aims to be simpler to configure and use, especially for short-lived student projects.
Engenuity will use its crack team of agile coders :-) to fix critical bugs, refactor the code, improve testability and the tests, and simplify the installation and configuration, setting the stage for a release of version 2.0 sometime in mid 2007, with enhanced issue tracking capabilities.
The work is funded by the University of Toronto.