Palmenco is the Swedish police's supplier of alcometer instruments and they are assigned to do service and calibration to assure the quality of the instruments functionality. Around 10,000 instruments pass through each year and gets calibrated, upgraded and fixed if needed.

Act was a collaboration between Palmenco, Wiig Data and Weltgeist. During the development process of said project Palmenco got optimised through an upgrade of the system which later got integrated with one of Weltgeist's specially developed solutions including electronic and mechanical automatization of specific tasks. Among the components of the system, one of them is a newly developed hardware unit which lets the software perform mechanical and systemized tasks that were only possible to perform manually earlier. The user interface lays on top of a .NET 2.0 application that organizes the work based on customers, invoices and delivery adresses. It also generates real-time information which is seamlessly integrated with accounting- and sales support-systems using a light-weight ESB.

Feel free to look at Jim Webber's speech on Guerilla SOA from QCon last year. (Dr. Jim Webber is SOA Practice Lead at ThoughtWorks.)

Unitraffic AB supplies video systems to the Nordic police amongst other things. These video systems get assembled into cars and often have client-specific requirements regarding usability and functionality. In order to satisfy these demands, a unit that could control all of the systems incoming components was needed and that’s why Weltgeist was hired to develop both hardware and software. To communicate with the camera, the digital video recorder and other electronic parts the unit has a micro controller that does just that. The interface is an OLED display (a display with high contrast and readability) and a couple of buttons.

The project comprised of coming up with a prototype, hardware construction (circuit diagram, PCB design, CAD/CAM) and firmware development for the application run on the micro controller.

A wish to keep the older Argus I-system came up when the Swedish Road Administration re-established their Automatic Speed Safety System, a system for handling speed violations. Argus II, the new system, has a centralized structure where every errand automatically gets transferred to a central server. There they get checked and forwarded to their respective authorities. The older system doesn’t handle evidence centrally and is primary used in mobile situations, either fully automated units placed at construction sites for example or in the vans the Swedish police uses. A wish to integrate the older system into the new one arose in order to get the achieved effectiveness with using a central unit.

A conversion platform where you could input raw data from the older system, complement it with information to fit the needs of the new system, and finally transfer the new data to the central unit was developed by Weltgeist. The client for this project was Unitraffic, the supplier of the Argus II systems amongst other things. The software was built on the .NET platform using a GUI based on WinForms.

--> "Fartkameror på hjul", article in the local newspaper Borås Tidning

Thor is an administrative system for installations, service measures and verifications of delivered instances from Unitraffic's product assortment. The system is linked to SPCS Administration via SPCS Integration API and is written in C# and ASP.NET AJAX. The application is used via a web interface.