Mid Range RFID System

Date: 2010.Company owner: VPI Diabetes Management. Developed by Cisium, Inc. Customers: hospitals. Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl's contribution: engineering manager and chief engineering of complete system.Market: medical.Product category: RF identification. This is a customize solution for a mid range RFID. The purpose of this product is to detect and record automatically the attendance of field staff. For example it good be used construction workers in a construction area, home nurses add patient site, or field staff visiting any other customer site. The system consistent of a control unit mounted in the field and ID units that are worn by…

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Database with 6000 Electronic Part Numbers

Date: 2010.Company owner: Lear Corporation.Developed by Cisium, Inc. Customer: internal user of Lear Corporation.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl’s contribution: engineering manager, project manager and lead engineer.Market: automotive.Product category: data codification. In the scope of the single activities related to electronic hardware engineering support, CISIUM has perform the review of an electronic component data base of more than 6000 part numbers. The database belongs to one of the biggest companies in the automotive sector. The review, supervise, wrap up in term of electronic attributes and datasheets, have been done closely with the top electronic components specialist of the company and has…

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Communication Gateway for Medical Application

Date: 2010.Company owner: VPI Diabetes Management.Developed by Cisium, Inc. Customer: general public.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl’s contribution: senior software developer.Market: medicalProduct category: IT infrastructure This is a communication gateway that collects information from various devices interface and sends it to a data collector web server for processing and visualization. This specific variant is build to gather information from devices with RS232, but is easy to expand USB and ATA/IDE ports. This module can be used in areas where it is needed to collect data from external peripherals (e.g. measurement equipment, sensor) and to provide it to Ethernet server for…

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Jewellery Shop Website

Date: September to December 2009.Developed by Cisium, Inc. Customer: general public.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and othersRaúl’s contribution: as engineering manager and senior software developer.Product category: website. This web site is an web shop for the Spanish market where the audience can buy online jewelry and accessories. The website is divided into a home with a welcome, short shop introduction and customer log-in and new account menu followed by a category product, about us and contact information sheet. The website included an e-commerce module that handles the customer accounts, purchase baskets, discounts, inventory, invoices, shipping and payment status. Customer can choose…

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Smart Junction Boxes for Various OEMs

Date: 2005 - 2009.Developed by Lear Corporation. Customers: Nissan, Renault, BMW and Mitsubishi.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl's contribution: senior hardware engineer. Responsible of electronic design, electronic component selection, schematic design, PCB supervision and review, EMC review, DFMEA, FTA, etc.Market: automotive / Tier 1 supplier.Product category: control and power distribution. Smart Junction Box (SJB) integrates passive junction box features with electronic module functionality. It uses microcontroller based technology to switch power and control vehicle body functions. SJB technology utilizes a total systems approach by optimizing and integrating control and power distribution functions into a single module. SJB replaces relays…

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Intellectual Social Community Website

Date: 2007.Developed by Raúl Bartolomé Castro.Customers: general public. Raúl’s contribution: as senior software developer.Product category: website The NEURON is a noncommercial website to share ideas, findings and thoughts promoting sciences, philosophy and arts. The site is an excellent example for a blog type website, where a user are able to write and comment articles, shares photos and links. The site has also included links and headline feeds and an integrated photo gallery. The integrated community builder make this site social and allows users to interact with other user similar to sites e.g. Facebook or Friendster. Website Presentation Framework: Joomla! V.1.5.14Extension:…

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Auxiliary Electronic Circuits for Testing Electrical Wiring

Date: 2004 - 2006.Owner company: CreaSoft SL.Developed by CreaSoft SL.Clients: Valeo and Lear.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electronic engineer. Design of PCBAs, including schematics, layout, selection of components and hardware validation. Assembly software development for MCUs.Market: electrical wiring.Product category: embedded electronics. CreaSoft company creates software and hardware for automotive wiring testing. In the following illustration we can see a photograph of part of the wiring of a vehicle. As you can see the wiring is made up of a large number of cables with connectors at the ends. Wiring manufacturing companies such as Valeo or Lear…

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Distributed Multifunction System RS485 or USB 1.1 for Testing Electrical Wiring

Date: 2002 - 2003.Owner company: CreaSoft SL.Developed by CreaSoft SL.Clients: Valeo.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electronic engineer. Design of PCBAs, including schematics, layout, selection of components and hardware validation. C software development for microcontrollers.Market: electrical wiring.Product category: electrical test. The purpose of the project is to check the wiring harness, this time the mechanical enclosure is not a rack, but cards located on plastic guides, thus providing greater versatility. In the following photograph we can see an example of different cards located in the guides and interconnected with each other. These systems consist of electronic cards…

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Fractal Geometry: Julia Sets

Date: 2000.Developed by Raúl Bartolomé Castro. This software project is solving Julia's set equation. The download includes the Windows application, the C ++ source code, and the Visual Studio project. Fractal geometry is very present in nature, it defines the growth of many biological structures such as the lungs, neurons, the leaves of trees. A fractal is an object that attributes some of the following characteristics: It is too irregular to be described by conventional geometry.It has details on any scale of observation.It presents self-similarity, for example its shape is similar at a distance or at close range.It is defined…

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Putty Heated Pumps for OEMs Production Line

Date: 2000.Developed by ASM Dimatec.Clients: numerous vehicle manufacturers.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electrical designer. Creation of schematics in ePAN, selection of electrical elements and creation of electrical documentation.Market: automotive subsidiary.Product category: industrial machinery. The project consisted of heated pumps for the application of putty, which is applied at the junction between bodywork and glass as a sealing method. The pump is optimized for the extraction of very low viscosity fluids. All the hoses are heated, as well as the piston, valves, etc. The electrical control box is made up of PLCs, magnetothermics, electromechanical relays and solid…

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Sheet Stacker for Ford Production Line

Date: 1999 - 2000.Developed by ASM Dimatec.Customers: Ford.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electrical designer. Creation of schematics in ePLAN, selection of electrical elements and creation of electrical documentation.Market: automotive subsidiary.Product category: industrial machinery. This system consisted of a press line and the sheet unstacking system. The de-stacking was implemented using a robot, which extracted the sheets from the pile and introduced them in the first press. The security criteria were very severe: Pilz security automatons and all wiring with an emergency mechanism. The project was selected to carry out an audit of the QS9000, which is…

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Putty Glass Application for Seat Production Line

Date: 2000.Developed by ASM Dimatec.Clients: Seat.Authors: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and other engineers.Contribution of Raúl: electrical designer. Creation of schematics in ePAN, selection of electrical elements and creation of electrical documentation.Market: automotive subsidiary.Product category: industrial machinery. This machine consisted of applying putty to the car's rear window, made up of two well-differentiated blocks, one heated pumps and the other a Cartesian axle system for applying the putty. The most tedious part of the design consisted in the numbering of the terminals of the electrical cabinet, as well as the manual drawing of the same. In the illustration on the left you…

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