Healthcare · hardware · mid-2000s
Touchstone Systems / Paxar (Avery Dennison)
Handheld scanning that identified the patient, the product, and whether that unit was allowed to be used — then stopped it being used twice.
Work
Selected work
Systems we built or contributed to. Where we were subcontracted, that is stated on the project page. These are historical engagements, not a current client list.
Healthcare · national programme
National Screening Programme for Diabetic Retinopathy (via Clinisys)
Operators who were not ophthalmologists could capture images; remote specialists could diagnose; GPs got a care plan. HL7v3 and SNOMED were the unglamorous reason it could talk to the rest of the NHS.
Policing · biometrics
UK police IT organisation (Video Witness)
The next-generation Video Witness user interface: capture after PACE checks, then biometric marker analysis on the still.
Defence · fire control
Ministry of Defence (via a larger programme)
A rapid prototype of mortar trajectory calculation and fire control that the wider Army command-and-control work could kick the tyres on.
Broadcast
Endemol UK
A control panel that drove Clarity graphics for Sky Quiz Live — a three-hour weekday phone-in — so the operator could pick a game and the callers saw it immediately.
Aviation
Gama Aviation (via Maestro Aviation)
Existing flight-performance tool moved onto the new aircraft type, plus a way for the customer to import aerodrome data themselves next time.
Insurance · operations
Internet insurance company (undisclosed)
Sales, underwriting, document handling and the mail room on one workflow. The same idea later went to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa.
Trade · warehousing
Jewson
Price check, replenishment, goods receipt and on-device label printing on Windows CE 4.0, with a sync algorithm that did not assume the warehouse was online.
Maritime · healthcare
LE West
Stock take, certificates, expiry dates and re-ordering in one place — the maritime rule is “enough medical stock for this voyage and this crew,” not “a tab per cupboard.”
Education · retail
Millfield School
Handheld barcode scanning and label printing for two shops, with download / work / upload that did not trample another device’s counts.