Giving old equipment a face lift

Giving old equipment a face lift

There are many examples of industrial equipment that were designed may be 20 or 30 years ago that work perfectly well and do the job they were intended for efficiently but on which the user interface is very dated. In today’s world of smartphones and tablets most...
Giving old equipment a face lift

Low Power Card Detect – Friend or foe?

Historically if you were designing a contactless card reader then to detect cards you needed to poll periodically by turning the RF field on and sending out polling requests (REQA for ISO14443A for example). This is fine for USB or mains powered readers but for...
Giving old equipment a face lift

COLLABORATION LEADS TO SUCCESS FOR DYNAMIC NEW GAME

Nottingham based Near Field Solutions (now Touché Technology) are no strangers to facing obstacles in developing new products and services. The team are frequently challenged to design innovative solutions and are known as leaders in Near Field Communication (NFC),...
Giving old equipment a face lift

Bluetooth protocol testing

Most Bluetooth controllers have mature software stacks integrated which takes care of all the Bluetooth communications meaning that the application you are developing is relatively isolated from the data that actually gets transferred over the air and so you never...