Prevas in collaboration with ChromoGenics and Ambu has progressed in the
competition for the Swedish Embedded Award and has been nominated for the final
shortlist. Prevas has two entries in the ”Enterprise” category of the
prestigious award. The winner will be announced on 22nd November at Embedded
Conference Scandinavia.
Dynamic glass for solar control
The entry from Prevas and Uppsala company ChromoGenics is a product for dynamic
windows providing sun control when needed. By pressing a button, all the windows
in a room can be darkened and exclude all light and heat from the sun – without
losing the view. The solution is based on an electrochromic foil which changes
characteristics by applying a low electrical voltage.
Johan Bergsten, Sales Manager at Prevas in Uppsala says: “It´s been an exciting
development project and I´m delighted that the product is now being nominated
for the Swedish Embedded Award. The assignment was to design a scalable and
flexible control system that could handle everything from dimming the light in a
single conference room, to control of the passage of light through all windows
in a newly constructed hotel. Prevas assembled a project group with expertise
within among other areas, microprocessors, embedded software, Windows
programming and hardware.”
Saving lives with technology
The second nominated contribution comes from the Danish company Ambu. Ambu have
developed next generation wireless training manikins powered by Prevas
technology. The new Ambu® Man Advanced ALS takes CPR (cardio pulmonary
resuscitation) training to the next level with a range of wireless manikins,
incorporating improved electronics and built-in software provided by Prevas.
Death from sudden cardiac arrest accounts for about 15% of all deaths in Western
countries. A substantial amount of lives can be saved if more people are
familiar with CPR, and the use of training manikins is a key to achieving this
goal.
“As one of Scandinavia’s leading medical & training equipment suppliers, it’s a
great honour to have the technology and innovation inside the new AmbuMan
recognised by the nomination for such a prestigious award,” says Fabian Sachs,
Senior Corporate Product Manager at Ambu.
“The new range of wireless manikins are built on a robust hardware & software
platform that deliver a unique and easy to use feature set that can be easily
expanded with software upgrades well into the future. We utilized the latest
mobile technologies running Prevas Industrial Linux (PIL) to create a powerful
platform to run the Web App control and user interfaces. Indeed, the Web App
browser interface enables training sessions to be controlled from any modern
browser, without the need to download a dedicated app,” says Prevas Senior
Project Manager Christian Ward.
This is the eighth time that Prevas has been nominated for the Swedish Embedded
Award, which it has won three times.
The winners of the Swedish Embedded Award will be announced at Embedded
Conference Scandinavia in November (www.embeddedconference.se).
For additional information, contact:
Björn Andersson, Vice President Product Development Solutions, Prevas AB
E-mail: bjorn.andersson@prevas.se, Tel.: +46 21 360 19 33, Cell: +46 70 370 19
00
Johan Bergsten, Säljansvarig Uppsala, Prevas AB,
E-mail: johan.bergsten@prevas.se, Tel.: +46 18 56 27 10, Cell: + 46 70 190 23 14
Christian Ward, Senior Project Manager, Prevas A/S, E-mail:
christian.ward@prevas.dk , Cell: +45 20 75 03 80
About Prevas
With cutting edge expertise in embedded systems and industrial IT, Prevas
contributes by providing innovative solutions that create growth. Prevas was
founded in 1985, and the company is the main supplier and development partner to
leading companies in industries such as life science, telecommunications,
vehicle, defense, energy and engineering. Offices are located in Sweden,
Denmark, Norway and India. The company has approximately 600 employees. Prevas
has been listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm since 1998.
For more information, see www.prevas.com.
