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Pre-Certification Testing Software of AC-Powered Electronic Devices

How creating an application for testing AC-powered electronic devices helped a household appliances manufacturer speed up checks for conformity to IEC 61000-4-11:2004.

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Development and deployment of any AC-powered electronic device are accompanied by one big step – device testing and certification for conformity to existing standards, including failure resistance, short interruptions and changes in power voltage. There is a special class of devices called “test generators” used for conformity testing and control.

Challenge

We had to develop a software solution that would be embedded into the client’s hardware devices. The app should cover testing electronic appliances with up to 600 W rated power for conformity to IEC 61000-4-11:2004.

Solutions

We created software that meets the specified requirements. Key features of the device: it is compact and has a communication interface for control from a computer.

Features

Portability

Possibility to test an electronic device for conformity to IEC 61000-4-11:2004

Communication interface for control from a computer

Modern hardware components

Technologies

News App For an Irish Digital Media Company

How migrating to the latest Android SDK, redeveloping notification feature, incorporating social media sign-in, and more facilitated a digital media company’s step-up in user engagement.

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Challenge

Redevelop push notification to all apps via Parse
Incorporate the latest versions of the Admob SDKs on all apps
Incorporate social sign-in using Gigya
Video playing using an SDK from a company called Bluebillywig
Migrate to latest Android SDK and material design

Incorporate the latest versions of the Admob SDKs on all apps
Improve our use of enriched content by improving our embedded code (where, e.g. the app displays twitter or facebook content but in a native app, or migrating story display to a web view)

Key features

get notifications about big news nearby

get real-time alerts for any topic

mute stories you do not want to see

Technologies

Students-Targeted Platform For an EdTech Startup

How implementing visualizations into an educational platform and honing its UX allowed an EdTech startup to experience an 11% boost in newly registered users.

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Challenge

The customer contacted *instinctools while looking for a contractor to help them implement several new features to their platform based on ExpressionEngine. Due to the startup nature of the project, cost was a major factor. The cost/quality ratio offered by *instinctools turned out to be the best among all of the other competitors.

The customer hired a senior PHP developer to work on a number of challenging data visualization tasks.

The goal of the project was to modify the platform and to add a number of useful features to the existing functionality.

Solution

The problem was solved by the creation of complex charts for visualizing the relationship between admission success and various parameters:

Test results
Number of unique words in the application essay
Selected major

Charts were built using the D3 JavaScript library. However, the key challenge behind this task was to calculate the number of unique words. This required the use of the phpMorphy library for lemmatization.

Key Features

All of the necessary features were successfully implemented to the platform including:

An adaptive user form completion wizard comprised of multiple steps.

Automatic filling of user forms with data from student application forms in PDF file.

As a result, the use of the platform has become much more comfortable for its users.

The customer was pleased with this cooperation and plans to outsource more development tasks to *instinctools upon receiving an additional round of funding.