BY: Chris Sander| Marketing Project Manager

Market Segment: Industrial Automation

Based on our “proven platform concept” Data Respons Solutions has developed an individual solution for a customer in Denmark, who is established in the field of parking house & yard management applications.

Due to infrastructural changes, the challenge for our customer was to reduce the dimensions of the next generation of its application and integrate several components into one. As a result of the space-critical environment, the new solution had to be reduced in height by approximately 15%.

An external modem had to be additionally integrated into the compact solution as a communication module (4G LTE).

The main challenge was to give the customer the opportunity to connect up to 96 sensors to the system. In order to be able to process this enormous amount of input signals, 96 interrupt-based digital inputs are provided via 2 modules connected via mini PCI Express. Undoubtedly, the main focus of our customer was also on cost efficiency and the shortest possible time to market.

Because of our longstanding experience in the field of customisation and our strong network of leading technology partners, we were immediately able to find the suitable proven platform. On this basis, we have succeseeded in implementing the customer-specific solution in a very short time.  This step gave us tremendous opportunity to reduce the product development time and release a clear cost saving potential for our customer.

After reducing the mechanical dimensions of the solution, we optimised the communication performance with up to 96x interrupt based digital inputs.

Via standard mPCIe (MiniCard), the previously external modem was integrated into the complete solution.

All these operational steps of the customer-specific adaptation were coordinated in such an efficient way, so that we were able to hand over a functional prototype to our customer after only five weeks.