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High Quality & Cost-Effective Solutions

From requirements analysis to design, implementation, documentation, testing and maintenance, Innovation Science specialises in quality engineering of custom software solutions. Our focus on evolvable engineering delivers cost-effective solutions that will grow with the customers' requirements.

0.06% error rate. Our engineering practices result in extremely high-quality code. Statistics gathered over the past six years show the number of faults encountered with our custom developed software is less than 1 in every 1600 lines of source code. Even many of these were discovered by our own engineers and fixed before the customer was even aware of the problem.

Key areas of software engineering expertise include:

  • Custom application development
  • Rapid prototyping
  • Graphical user interfaces
  • Peripheral hardware interfaces (sensors, etc.)
  • Algorithm implementation and refinement
  • Evolvable and open systems
  • Software Architectures - development & analysis

Whether your solution requires Java, C++, C, C#, Matlab, Visual Basic, ASP, PHP, or perhaps something more exotic, our engineers have specialised skills in a range of technologies to allow the best option to be chosen for each engineering task.

Our engineers have accumulated experience within a range of defence and commercial domains. Specific experience includes:

  • Efficient, near-real-time software applications
  • Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  • Encryption and secure communications
  • Sonar Analysis
  • Target Motion Analysis
  • Data Fusion
  • Command Support Tools
  • Command & Control (C2) simulation
  • Missile Decoy & Mine Countermeasures
  • Ship Control
  • Data Communication Gateways
  • Verification and Validation
  • Web client/server applications
  • Open Systems & Open Architectures (OA)
  • Distributed Computing
  • 3D Visualisation

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Some examples of software developed to date include...

Horizon 3 is a command and control (C2) application framework used by defence researchers around the world to rapidly construct combat system applications for use in simulation environments. The software is often used to experiment with future combat system concepts because the low cost and speed with which Horizon can be extended and reconfigured makes it extremely cost-effective to evaluate many different scenarios. This allows the customer to refine requirements for future deployed combat system modifications before committing large sums of money to modify or replace their navy's at-sea solutions. Horizon 3 applications can be rapidly integrated with existing combat system protocols to quickly provide augmented functionality and verify its benefits with data sourced from real sensors.

The Horizon 4 concept demonstration software adopts all the benefits of rapid development offered by Horizon 3, and combines them with the outstanding array of features built into the Expressj® framework. The result is a combat system application framework that is built for ease of integration. Modules can be developed by any number of different vendors, and independently integrated into the application. Horizon 4 allows the integrator to identify if any module is performing poorly or violates agreed access privileges. Never before has this been possible at an application's module level without access to specialist profilers and the source code.

Tantara is used to analyse tactical data logged by combat system software during virtual battle experiments. The analysis tool exploits Microsoft Excel to provide customisable graphing capabilities, but is primarily a suite of visual basic modules that plug into an evolvable framework to enable easy extension using additional analysis algorithms. Eighteen pluggable modules are bundled with the standard release to calculate metrics such as completeness, accuracy, continuity and timeliness of data at various points in the combat system data chain. Each metric generates a chart to visualise the results. Third-party provision and integration of additional metrics and plots is supported by Tantara release 3 and above.

Other Software Projects
Publication of detailed information relating to commissioned custom software projects is at our clients' discretion. However, the following list offers a taste of some of the software we have developed, either through our own research and development programmes, or under client funded contracts:
  • Automatic Data Fusion - Concept demonstrator to show how data can be automatically fused from multiple geographically separated sensors in a network enabled warfare scenario.
  • Target Motion Analysis - A suite of algorithms and a user interface built upon Horizon 3 to provide a platform for cost-effective experimentation and analysis of new target motion analysis algorithms.
  • Command Tactical Picture - Highly configurable graphical application to support experiments with Human Computer Interaction from a command perspective.
  • PDA based "Interaction Recorder" to enable observers to quickly record interaction between control room crew at sea.
  • Network Enabled Undersea Warfare tactical picture visualisation software.
  • Sensor Trials - Airborne and Subsurface data acquisition and visualisation for sensor performance analysis.

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