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Data acquisition systems
Custom measurement and logging systems — sensor interfacing, signal conditioning, acquisition hardware and the software to make the results usable — built for trials, monitoring and research work.
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- What we doTurning a measurement requirement into hardware.
- How we workThe front end decides the data quality.
- What you getDeliverables.
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What we do
Turning a measurement requirement into hardware.
A data acquisition project starts from what has to be measured and to what confidence, not from a channel count. Sensor selection, excitation and signal conditioning, sampling rate and resolution, synchronisation across channels, storage, and how the data is retrieved and interpreted afterwards are all one design problem.
We have built acquisition and logging systems for trials and monitoring applications, including airborne data-logging payloads, and the same engineering applies on the ground and underwater: get the front-end right, timestamp reliably, and make the recovered data straightforward to trust.
How we work
The front end decides the data quality.
Most acquisition problems are analogue problems. Grounding, shielding, excitation stability and conditioning ahead of the converter determine whether the numbers mean anything; no amount of processing afterwards recovers a measurement corrupted at the sensor interface.
Synchronisation and timestamping matter as soon as there is more than one channel or more than one instrument. Establishing how channels are aligned, and to what accuracy, is part of the specification rather than an implementation detail.
Field-recoverable data is a design requirement. Storage, redundancy, power-loss behaviour and how a set of results is extracted and checked at the end of a trial all get designed in, because a system that captures perfect data and loses it on shutdown has failed.
What you get
Deliverables.
The acquisition hardware, the firmware or host software needed to run it, and a description of the signal chain: sensor, excitation, conditioning, converter and storage, with the accuracy and sampling behaviour that chain actually achieves rather than the figure on the converter datasheet.
Calibration and verification records are part of the package. For measurement work, a number without a traceable basis is not a result, so how each channel was checked and against what is documented alongside the system.
Where the data feeds an existing analysis workflow, we deliver in the format that workflow reads, and document the file structure and timestamp convention so results remain interpretable long after the trial.
Applications
Where this work applies.
- Trials instrumentation and telemetry
- Structural, vibration and thermal monitoring
- Airborne and vehicle-mounted data logging
- Laboratory and test-rig measurement systems
- Long-duration environmental monitoring
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