CISIUM, Inc. Company Offering Electrical, Electronic and Software Development Services

Date: 2008 – 2015.Company owners: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and Luis Martinez.Customers: Ciephil Trading, VPI Diabetes Management, Surface Technology International Limited, Lear Corporation, Böning Automationstechnologie GmbH & Co. KG, etc.Raúl’s contribution: co-founder, co-owner, executive director, engineering manger and senior engineer.Market: automotive, consumer electronics, industrial and medical.Product category: engineering services. CISIUM, Inc. was a company that provided an extended palette of electrical, electronic and software development services, offering complete solutions for electronic products and electronic development, software development for PC and web applications, design and implementation of industrial automation infrastructures and integration of electronic instrumentation. CISIUM, Inc. was the partner of many small…

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Electronic Cigarette MiD One with PC Application and Website Portal

Date: 2012 - 2013.Company owner: Janty, Ltd..Developed by Janty, Ltd. and Cisium, Inc.Customers: general public.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and many others.Raúl's contribution: inventor, engineering manager and chief engineering of the complete system (electronic cigarette, PC application and web application). Additionally, senior engineer for electronic design and firmware development.Market: consumer electronics.Product category: electronic cigarette. Janty MiD (Modular Intelligent Design) was an electronic cigarette that gave the user total freedom in the creation of their individual vaping experiences. It was the first of his kind in 2014 and rapidly copied by competitors in China. The novelty of the invention is protected by…

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Smart Bag, a Prototype Controlled with an Android Application

Date: 2012.Owned and developed by Cisium, Inc.Customers: general public. Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl’s contribution: inventor, engineering manager and chief engineering. Additionally, firmware development and Java for Android coding.Market: consumer electronics.Product category: fashion. This prototype, created by Cisium, Inc., consisted in the electrification and control with smartphone of a bag/purse made with side growing fiber optics. The bag was done by the company LumiGram. They develop a very especial fabric made from fiber optics that grows beautifully in the dark thanks to a source of light. The bag had inside a small module with the batteries and a LED…

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Home Automation System with Wi-Fi Nodes and Wi-Fi Cameras Controlled by Website

Date: 2012.Owned and developed by Cisium, Inc.Customers: general public.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl’s contribution: engineering manager and chief engineering.Market: consumer electronics.Product category: home automation. There are many automation systems in the marked, but only one exclusively based on Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) and oriented for a home environment, it is coming from the hand of CISIUM, Inc.. In this article we explain and provide the material for an open source and open hardware Wi-Fi Home automation system. The principles of our proposal are: Easy to use, targeted for people without technical background.Without the necessity of any technician to install the automation…

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PCBA for Lens Polishing Machine Haruchika HP-043

Date: 2011.Owned and developed by Cisium, Inc. Customers: industrial companies.Creators: Raúl Bartolomé Castro and others.Raúl’s contribution: project manager, engineering manager and chief engineering. Additionally, senior engineer for electronic design and firmware development.Market: industrial.Product category: industrial automation. The scope of this project is an obsolete industrial machine without manufacturer support. The system automation was implemented with a full custom board, using discrete electronic components in an analog and digital electric nature. The target was to fix the machines, replacing the damaged boards with a new control system. During the systematic analysis of the machine and solution cases, we decided to reject…

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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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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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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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