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We love figuring things out, and for us, finding innovative designs and solutions feels more like fun than work. The more challenging, the more we like it. Even when we come up with a smart approach, we’ll look at ways to improve it.
BetterWay Automated blood Sample Preparation Device
Client: BetterWay™ Blood Testing by Babson Diagnostics
Odic proudly contributed to the design and development of this state-of-the-art sample preparation device. We engineered the hardware and firmware from the ground up to seamlessly control an array of components including multiple sensors, motors, switches, and a centrifuge. Complete automation ensures precision in blood sample preparation, removing human interaction and error. We further integrated network connectivity to a cloud service, enabling real-time data management and monitoring. This critical stage of the BetterWay process showcasing our expertise in working with advanced medical technologies.
smallTalk Connect
Client: smallTalk
Odic provided a complete electrical redesign to reduce power and cost for a sound system for NICU patients. The speaker unit receives a sensor signal from a pacifier and plays sound files based on algorithmically analyzed input. We shifted communication protocols and simplified the circuit board to maximize commercial feasibility.
Credit: Design Central
Touchless Hand Sanitizing Dispenser
Client: Vaask
Odic was brought in to add Wi-Fi capabilities and ended up expanding our responsibilities to cover all firmware to move the hand sanitizer dispenser from prototype to commercial status. These smart devices track their sanitizer reservoir and communicate centrally to an application that shows usage, predicts when they will need to be refilled, and can adjust amounts dispensed.
Video Sensor Board
Client: Useful Sensors
Odic designed a low-cost board with video sensors to host a machine learning engine that recognizes people and gestures. The board works as a hardware module that is easy to integrate into TVs, laptops, and appliances to easily add presence-focused intelligent capabilities in a matter of days.
Z1 Hotbox Performance Tuner
Client: Z1 Motorsports
Odic designed the hardware and firmware for a piggyback engine tuner which works by intercepting and modifying sensor signals to “trick” the engine control unit into increasing turbocharger boost pressure, resulting in more power and torque from the engine. This effort included additional development of testing software so that the client could tune the signal conversion tables to be within safe margins for the engine.
Wearable and Wireless technology – Pedometer / Activity Tracker
Client: Virgin Pulse®
Odic designed and developed the electronics and firmware for Max, a pedometer that uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for wireless communication. Even though the Max has a graphic screen and a BLE, it operates for many months on a single button-cell battery.
RSA SecureID Network Access Token
Client: RSA Security®
Odic redesigned the electronics in RSA’s SecurID token to take advantage of a lower cost processor and to significantly increase manufacturing throughout by greatly reducing programming and test time. Carefully designed firmware allows the SecurID to run over 5 years on a small coin cell battery.
Wireless Infrastructure for Toys
Client: Large Toy Company
Odic developed helped add Bluetooth Low Energy to several well known toys.
More Examples, By Industry
We love figuring things out, and for us, finding innovative designs and solutions feels more like fun than work. The more challenging, the more we like it. Even when we come up with a smart approach, we’ll look at ways to improve it.
Small Scale Designs
Many consumer products require small, low power, low cost designs, and area in which Odic excels. Some products plug into wall power. Examples include:
- Motorcycle helmet-mounted brake and turn signal
- Solar powered signs with batteries for day and night use
- Electronically dimming sunglasses
- Hand sanitizer with WiFi interface
Medical Concept Development
Medical products often start out as a proof-of-concept technology development effort, and Odic is quite active in this space. Examples include:
- Wearable sensor to detect and prevent heat injury during military training exercises
- Portable metabolic energy expenditure monitor
- Nitric oxide generator, creating NO gas from ambient air
- Wireless EEG monitor, replacing large wired instruments with a small wireless puck
- Blood coagulation drug tester
- Wearable pediatric biometric monitoring device
- Photobleacher that removes autofluorescent background from tissue samples before performing analysis of cellular diversity
INdustrial & Commercial
Industrial and commercial control products combine processing, sensor integration, some form of user interface, networking, and algorithm development. Our experience includes:
- High voltage utility line power monitor
- Liquid level gauging system for barges and tankers