Developing Products for Smart Home Systems? Do This
3 expert tips to help you optimise your smart home system design projects Happy Smart Home Day! Here are our top development tips for designing products for smart home systems. 1 Give consideration to energy demand response when designing new products In the future, energy providers will need to better balance provision of electricity, requiring […]
ViGiL wins EVIEs 2020 Innovation in V2G Award
ViGiL wins EVIEs 2020 Innovation in V2G Award ByteSnap Design and a consortium of partners have been awarded the ultimate accolade for the successfully completed ViGiL (Vehicle-to-Grid Intelligent Control) project in this year’s Electric Vehicle Innovation & Excellence Awards (EVIEs). ViGiL is the UK’s first end-to-end, fully integrated Vehicle-to-Grid system and was named “Innovation in […]
UKCA and CE marking – what you need to know
UKCA and CE Marking – Your Questions Answered Within the EU, CE marking is mandatory for machinery, electrical and electronic equipment, medical devices, personal protective equipment and toys. As such, anyone looking to sell electrical products in the EU will need to test for compliance and affix a CE mark to their product. Post Brexit, […]
The Cost to Design & Develop a New Electronic Product
The cost to design & develop a new electronic product consists of many phases. Read the guide to help you plan the costs of your next project. Design & Development Pricing: How Much a New Electronic Design Project Costs Before commissioning a new product development, it’s important that you establish a number of key project […]
QNX RTOS used to Ensure Highly Reliable V2G Charge Posts
ByteSnap choses QNX RTOS to ensure high-reliability in V2G charge post project ByteSnap Design selected Blackberry’s QNX Neutrino RTOS [1] components – supplied by Direct Insight [2] – as part of its new vehicle charging system. This is the UK’s first integrated vehicle-to-grid system for charging electric cars. QNX RTOS & VIGIL project: The new […]
Hybrid Vehicles & Their Peak Growth in View
The EV Smart Charging rEVolution: Hybrid Vehicles & Their Peak Growth in View About The EV Smart Charging rEVolution Column This month we’re looking into Hybrid Vehicles & Their Peak Growth… I’m Julian Skidmore, a senior software engineer at ByteSnap Design and helping to develop our EV – electric vehicle – charging solutions. We’re a […]
Applications Processors Head-to-Head: STM32MP1 vs I.MX7ULP
A comparison of STM32MP1 vs I.MX7ULP The STM32MP1 and I.MX7ULP chip series are manufactured by STMicro and NXP respectively. They both offer a combination of low-power and high-performance with full support for high-performance operating systems. This article will be looking at some of the differences between the two, and also highlighting best fits for various […]
VIGIL V2G Project Successfully Completed
VIGIL: UK’s First Comprehensive Communication and Control Platformfor V2G Systems and Electrical Networks Management The collaborative research project VIGIL (‘VehIcle to Grid Intelligent controL’) has successfully met its aim of building and trialling an off-vehicle communication and control platform. Further, this platform will encourage DNOs, building owners and EV/EV infrastructure owners to adopt V2G (vehicle-to-grid) […]
Working From Home & Electronics Design During the Pandemic
COVID 19-Proof Your Electronics Product Design Projects for Working From Home It’s fair to say that – due to the COVID-19 pandemic – the world of work will never quite be the same again. We’ve been working from home, in lockdown, for a few weeks now. To date, a number of problems and solutions have […]
10 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful IoT Project
10 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful IoT Project Determining the practicality of a proposed (Internet of Things) IoT project is the first and most important step in IoT product design. If done correctly, this will set up the project for success. Want to turn a good concept into a brilliant, IoT product? There are […]