Here's a selection of our recent internal projects, designed either
for our own use or for potential productization.

==== Wireless Sensor Network ====

MSS has designed a wireless sensor network and some environmental
sensors.  The system operates in the 900MHz ISM band and uses the
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH7|DASH7 Alliance protocol]] to
communicate.

The sensor boards (called //tags// in IoT sensor network parlance)
that we have working now are a temperature/humidity/barometric
pressure tag and an ambient CO2 concentration measurement tag.  We've
also designed a 900MHz DASH7 Alliance Protocol gateway board that
plugs atop a Raspberry Pi computer and acts as a gateway between an IP
network and the DASH7 RF network.


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==== CAMAC USB Serial Highway Driver ====

MSS has designed a USB Serial Highway Driver for the
[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Automated_Measurement_and_Control|CAMAC]]
bus.  CAMAC is an acronym for //Computer Automated Measurement And
Control//, and is a bus standard for nuclear instrumentation.  While
CAMAC dates back to the early 1970s, it is a current standard and is
currently in widespread use in the nuclear physics research community.
You can see a photo of some of CAMAC hardware in the MSS lab
[[legacy_systems_support|here]].


MSS does a lot with CAMAC instrumentation, and we wanted an
inexpensive way to control a CAMAC system from a USB interface.  The
CAMAC Serial Highway Driver (or //SHD//) accomplishes this task.
CAMAC modules implement things like high-speed digitizers, counters,
ADCs, DACs, pulse amplifiers, etc and are installed into CAMAC
//crates//.  A crate full of CAMAC modules can be controlled via a USB
interface (and driver softare for Linux) using this board.

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