Case Studies

Clarinox Technologies displays a variety of project experience.

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Clarinox helped to make life easier for children with hearing impairment, and provided audio guidance for vision impaired

and the comments of Clarinox customers:

"Thanks to Clarinox I have a virtual inhouse development team, but I do not need to bear the ongoing costs"
- Phicom

"The rapid development of a demonstration wireless system provided our business with new ways of looking at things and new opportunities for growth."
- Cochlear

"I am very proud to see this kind of Bluetooth technology capability in-country: well done"
- RPDE, Dept. Defence

"Clarinox has taken a far sighted view to embedded systems development with their SoftFrame product... they are an excellent organisation for NICTA to collaborate with to develop the next generation of trusted embedded systems"
- NICTA

"We have found it easy to deal with Clarinox at both a management and technical level."
- Keycorp

along with high level project descriptions:

Clarinox products ClarinoxSoftFrame, ClarinoxBlue, ClarinoxScan, ClarinoxGPRS/SMS & ClarinoxEdel

Development of these products displays the use of object oriented methodologies and C/C++ implementation plus hardware design. Complex code (over 250,000 lines of code) maintained for multiple platforms by a small team.

Bluetooth and middleware SDK sales, Major research organizations

Clarinox middleware products are being used in many leading universities including NICTA, Melbourne University, Monash University, RMIT, Victoria University, Sydney University, and Ege University.

Control and communication software, Medical Device Company, Australia

Development of hardware and software proof of concept incorporating standard mobile phone as the instrument for control and communication with Cochlear products via a Bluetooth enabled wearable gateway. Data transfer over Bluetooth and Nordic profiles and presentation via customized user interface. ARM7 and Windows Mobile platforms.

Multiple I/O interface development, Government Project, South Korea

Supply of ClarinoxBlue for FTP profile for Magiceyes MT250X (ARM9 Dual core), WinCE 5.0 platform to support development of a multifunction board supporting multiple I/O interfaces.

Extreme Sports Communicator, Communication Company, Australia

Clarinox Audio Gateway and ClarinoxBlue facilitated the short range communication on this rugged device aimed at motor cyclists and other extreme sport enthusiasts. Advanced features currently under development. TI-DSP platform.

Advanced Electronic Signage, US market

Clarinox provided framework for multiple wireless including GPRS / GSM Data and SSM, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi interfaces. Hardware design based upon state of the art DaVinci architecture with high speed digital design. Complex FPGA design (400,000 gates) with multiple parallel soft processors. DSP video technology for live video streaming and animated GIF decoding. Ethernet and USB interfaces. DaVinci platform.

BeATS, Audio Tour System for cultural venues

Development of hardware and software for real-time streaming of MP3 over Bluetooth for multiple users simultaneously, multiple profiles and tracking application. This was a joint development whereby Clarinox developed the embedded software and wireless applications and Tata developed the desktop based user interface in Java/JSP, Postgress database application and reporting software. The user device alone runs approximately 150,000 lines of code on a ARM7 processor with eCos operating system. From the initial requirements through implementation Object Oriented methodologies were applied.

In-vehicle communicator, Australia

Integration of multiple wireless technologies including 433 MHz and Bluetooth plus standard handsfree functionality. Provision of Clarinox Handsfree reference design and ClarinoxBlue ported onto the TI DSP/ARM processor.   

Bluetooth AudioGateway implementation, Specialised communications, USA

Clarinox Audio Gateway and ClarinoxBlue ported onto the TI TMS320 59xx OMAP DSP/ARM9 processor for short range communication device.  

Bluetooth enabled radio handset, Radio Communications, Australia

Ported ClarinoxBlue and ClarinoxSoftFrame onto the TI TMS320 5502 processor using TI's DSP-BIOS RTOS. Porting was done on TI's Code Composer IDE. Developed Codec drivers and UART drivers for the same platform.

Electronic Tagging, investigation & trial projects, Mining Industry, Australia/USA

Development of software for RFID readers, application to allow communication with a handheld, GUI for handheld device, synchronization of handheld to desktop and desktop GUI for RFID application. Familiar with 13.56MHz (HF) as well as UHF. Design of an Anti-Collision algorithm. ARM7 and WindowsXP platforms.

Embedded VoIP Device Feasibility and Design, Electronics Supplier, Australia

Investigation of feasibility and design for a Voip device for outdoor use. The software is designed by using Clarinox SoftFrame and the hardware is based on Clarinox hardware reference designs.

Child tracking project, USA

Application of in-house developed location algorithms to the task of tracking a single tag carried by a child from a single monitoring point within a 100m radius. Bluetooth technology was used for this application. Implemented in C++ this project demonstrated embedded object oriented complex application development. Parent side application would display the distance and the direction of the child when the child is moving away from the parent.

Electronic funds transfer embedded software, POS solutions, Australia

Software development and porting activities including full testing and documentation for support electronic funds transfer proprietary ARM7 based POS hardware. The following were amongst the system components; magnetic card reader, printer, Ethernet and GPRS communication modules.

Audio guidance for vision impaired, Australia

Developed hardware and software for demonstration of use of short range wireless technology to provide audible guidance for vision impaired as part of a City of Melbourne project to coincide with the Commonwealth Games 2006.

Call center audio equipment design, Leading OEM Firm, Australia

Designed various hardware and software components for the TI TMS320 67xx DSP processor based audio streaming equipment. System implements a patented shriek rejection algorithm to protect the opearator from abusive sound.

Bluetooth enabled automotive aftermarket product, Australia

Ported ClarinoxBlue and ClarinoxSoftFrame onto the AnalogDevices BlackFin DSP and Velosity RTOS for in-cabin combined audio and communication device.

Remote Control Monitoring Software, Leading OEM Firm

Graphical User Interface written in C++ for remote monitoring and control of multiple installations of industrial units via modem. PC and embedded target platforms were included in this development.

Taxi Dispatch and Monitoring System Infrastructure

A generic infrastructure for monitoring the locations of the vehicles and provide information to the web based customers of this system. Tetra or GPRS could have been used as the communication infrastructure and a printer, security camera or POS terminal could be connected as a peripheral in the vehicle.

Autonomous robotic vehicle project, University Project, Australia

Work involved installing a simple JVM on a 68HC11 microcontroller platform and constructing a Java application to send and receive commands for the purpose of controlling the navigation of the vehicle.