A wireless alarms product company – creates embedded modules which interfaces with existing alarm panels for example from Ademco/Honeywell to send the alarms over the wireless network making the telephone POTS line unnecessary.

The current interface of these wireless alarms module is through the POTS phone line with the alarm panel providing minimal control. Most alarm panels use property protocol over bus to communicate between the different peripherals. This is bus shared between these peripherals.

Since the protocol is proprietary a wireless module could not interface with this bus.

S5 Systems started by researching the internet to find basic hardware properties of different buses available on various alarms panels. Based on our research we then acquired off-the-shelf analyzers to analyze the data traffic traveling on this bus. After few months of analysis we understood, decoded and documented the complete messaging protocol on the bus.

We then created an embedded solution based on Philips NXP 2103 processor which interfaces with this ECP bus on one side and a Wavecom WMP100 wireless chipset on the other.

S5 Systems created a port of the wireless modem driver code, USB driver code and sample applications to work on a chosen ARM9 Linux platform.

In the process of porting the technology, S5 improved the build structure to enable different Linux platforms and processors and created a unified integration guide which is the integration guide for both Linux desktop and embedded platforms.

This fast growing server company had a crucial time-to-market requirement to add Solaris 10 support its existing products.

S5 Systems provided porting services to port the solution available from Linux 2.4 to the Solaris 10 platform. We worked closely with the management and the technical team members and ported their existing solutions from Linux to the Solaris platform. In the process we proposed a number of efficiency improvements with the management and created an efficient solution for Solaris 10.

S5 Systems team of engineers following our methodology developed a prototype of the Fiber optics faultfinder. This product helps network service providers to locate faults in their live fiber optics network. S5’s responsibility included over all prototype design (including choosing of processor and chips), schematic design, layout, and testing and software development. The software development included development of embedded software and development of corresponding front end on Windows 2000.

Being a consumer device with many different potential points of failure, S5 Systems developed a comprehensive strategy to test different failure points. This was followed with creation of a test plan document, test cases and execution of the test cases.

Creation of a comprehensive strategy has provided us the ability to understand the market readiness of the product and help launch the product.

S5 Systems created a solution, which enabled system administrators to remotely dial in to the VoIP PBX box and manage the PBX equipment.