Syncroness engineers began using Linux in the 1990's. Since then we have worked on several large scale projects utilizing embedded Linux where we have worked with the OS at deeper and deeper levels.
Due to the nature of contract engineering Syncroness has been faced with engineering challenges in a wide variety of seemingly unrelated products and industries. We have used our broad experience to our advantage by "cross-pollinating" technologies and best practices from one industry to another. Here is an example of industries where we have utilized embedded Linux.
Telecommunications Industry
Automated Carwash Industry
Medical Industry
Below you will find a list of products
and descriptions where our utilization of embedded Linux was paramount.
Trans-blood vision camera
catheter system for pacer wire installation during cardiac Surgery
This revolutionary product allows electro-physiologists to see in real time through flowing blood to find and navigate coronary venous anatomy. This is the first product of its kind to use infrared technology to allow for direct real-time visualization to see intracardiac & intravascular anatomy. Syncroness engineers wrote the real time imaging processing software in C and Java and it runs on Mandrake Linux.
Point of Sale (POS) industry
Syncroness developed this Linux based point of sale (POS) device used in the automatic carwash industry. The multi-threaded application interacts with 7 serial devices for money acceptance, return, credit card processing and machine control. It is compatible with all major car washes. The device can quickly change pricing menus and wash descriptions from the front panel or a remote location. The LCD screen uses multimedia features for easy user-interface and displaying promotions.
Optical Component Analyzer
1999 Startup dBm Optics needed a team to design their unique instrument. They chose Syncroness based on our prior success with photonics instrument design. We designed the digital control and firmware for the channel cards, and the software for the GUI. The purpose of this instrument is to test passive fiber optic components used in telecommunications.
