Hi,
You might like to know that Pure Basic made a very significant contribution to the development of this product.
http://www.michelin.co.uk/michelinuk/en ... 24015.html
Much of the early days test and research software was written with GFA and then migrated to the more able and continually evolving and improving Pure Basic.
Thank you Fred and the team.
The production line tests tyre sensors and truck equipment using software written in Pure Basic.
In the field, data is regularly extracted from truck equipment with utilities written in Pure Basic and analysed and displayed with Pure Basic software running on user’s laptops; each truck provides over 3 million data points per year allowing tyre performance to be analysed in great detail.
Some truck equipment has been developed that runs on small panel PCs under Windows XPE with the executables written with Pure Basic.
Data is transferred from trucks to the mine controller over mesh or other radio networks and is viewed over the user’s internal networks using presentation software written with Pure Basic.
A globe spanning network transfers data from remote sites using methods that were initially written and tested with Pure Basic; but now migrated to other languages. It’s great to sit in the lab and see real time data from the other side of the planet.
The project has been running since 2001 and has reached the current state of maturity thanks to well over 35,000 line of Pure Basic code… all written by yours truly who is one of a small team who created all the hardware, the embedded and high level software, and now manufacture it.
And my Pure Basic day runs more smoothly thanks to the continually improving jaPBe editor and the patience of forum members who are unfailingly helpful. Thanks to you all.
Just to give you an idea of how big the trucks are, I’m 6ft tall and do not come up to the axle centre, and the tyres weigh in at about six tons each!
RichardL
Mine truck tyre performance monitored by Pure Basic system
Congratulations Richard 
Great to see such a major company using PureBasic.@PB
I must correct the impression you have gained, my company is responsible for the work I described, acting as developers, so Pure Basic cannot claim a choice was made by our client to use it... more a choice to use US.
You could see a bit more about us and the project by visiting our web site:
Mr Moderator... is it OK to provide a link here?
RichardL
I must correct the impression you have gained, my company is responsible for the work I described, acting as developers, so Pure Basic cannot claim a choice was made by our client to use it... more a choice to use US.
You could see a bit more about us and the project by visiting our web site:
Mr Moderator... is it OK to provide a link here?
RichardL
Last edited by RichardL on Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:58 am, edited 1 time in total.
Thank you Fred...
The company I work at has a rather strange name, which is “RasterVision”.
The name originates from the original purpose for which the company was set up; to develop and manufacture the electronics for video walls and that involved real time image processing of television pictures displayed in RASTER format… (like all CRT displays showing TV). It was a good idea at the time!
The company now provides electronic development and manufacturing services, mainly embedded systems with a mass of gate arrays and microprocessors and PCs providing support roles; which is where I get involved.
You can find our web site at www.rastervision.co.uk which is still (always
) work-in-progress. Since we started in 1996 we have always been busy and the web site has not had the resources devoted to it that it probably deserves.
By the way, thats me standing up against truck 41; which is not the largest we get involved with!
RichardL
The company I work at has a rather strange name, which is “RasterVision”.
The name originates from the original purpose for which the company was set up; to develop and manufacture the electronics for video walls and that involved real time image processing of television pictures displayed in RASTER format… (like all CRT displays showing TV). It was a good idea at the time!
The company now provides electronic development and manufacturing services, mainly embedded systems with a mass of gate arrays and microprocessors and PCs providing support roles; which is where I get involved.
You can find our web site at www.rastervision.co.uk which is still (always
) work-in-progress. Since we started in 1996 we have always been busy and the web site has not had the resources devoted to it that it probably deserves.By the way, thats me standing up against truck 41; which is not the largest we get involved with!
RichardL
Hi Richard,
Sorry to 'hijack' your thread
The work you do looks very interesting, how would I go about getting into the industry, do you know of any courses that would be a great asset to get started?
With the numerous courses around it's hard to choose what to sign up for, if you could provide any information that'll be great
again, apologises for 'hijacking' :roll:
Sorry to 'hijack' your thread
The work you do looks very interesting, how would I go about getting into the industry, do you know of any courses that would be a great asset to get started?
With the numerous courses around it's hard to choose what to sign up for, if you could provide any information that'll be great
again, apologises for 'hijacking' :roll: