Designing a Custom Charging Solution
Faulty chargers causing costly failures Winter & Smith were called in by a long-time customer facing a costly problem—faulty chargers failing in the field. These chargers, sourced from the Far East, were leading to expensive warranty claims and recalls, draining the laser tag company’s profits. In an industry where reliable technology is everything, there was […]
Designing a Baby Monitoring System for Sheltered Housing
Another health and safety innovation! Introducing the Baby Monitoring System—a game-changer for sheltered housing complexes worldwide. While baby monitors are household staples globally, this system is designed with a purpose: location-specific monitoring tailored for multi-family housing complexes. In these complexes, where multiple families and infants share living spaces, the risk of unattended babies being left […]
Noise Monitoring System Design for Mercedes AMG
Ensuring operator safety in a high-noise environment When the Formula One World Champions Mercedes AMG approached Winter and Smith Electronics, the stakes were high! In their UK manufacturing facility, machines and engines are tested to their limits, generating extreme noise levels, and necessitating a lot of hearing protection. The challenge? Design an intelligent system that visually […]
Controlling Repair Equipment
Designing electronics for undersea cable repair. Incorporating a full colour TFT touch screen, the cable repair system controlled four heater systems and followed a heating profile for the vulcanisation of undersea cable repairs
Sometimes – you can’t buy a solution off the shelf
Design of Custom lighting control systems. The equipment pictured below, was part of a variety of systems designed for the control of Christmas Lighting. The controllers shown here, were fitted in Leeds Castle in Kent.
Showing the time at London 2012
Designing electronics for the London 2012 Olympics. At the London 2012 Olympic Games, one of the horse jumps for the equestrian event in Greenwich Park – crossed the Meridian Line. We were contracted to design a system to control 22 clock faces, that showed the time of all the competing nations. Each clock was individually […]
Design of a 10,000V impulse tester
Some of our clients build products that need testing, and whilst they know everything about their particular area of expertise – know nothing about test equipment. This piece of automatic equipment supplied high voltage to Transient Suppressors used by the railway industry, and monitored the characteristics of the response. This allowed our client to test […]
Sometimes, the only way you know what colour looks best – is to build some samples.
Design of Battery Powered Alarm Systems for vacant properties. Over 1000 vacant property alarms have been produced over the years. Pictured above are sample units, to allow our client to work out what brand identity they wanted the latest batch of alarms to look like.
