IDEAS are ten a penny. Put a handful of bright engineers in a brainstorming session and they will come up with literally scores of clever ideas for new products or processes. Invention is the easy bit. Innovation, by contrast, is the genuinely difficult part. And what makes a successful innovation usually has little to do with the originality of the idea behind it. What it does depend on -and crucially so- is the single-mindedness with which the business plan is executed, as countless obstacles on the road to commercialisation are surmounted, by-passed or hammered flat. Life in the fast lane really is 1% inspiration and 99% pure sweat.
Implicit in all this is timing. The window of opportunity has to be ajar - or, at least, show signs of opening. It matters little whether some exciting new technology has suddenly become available. If the market timing is wrong, the innovation will most assuredly flounder."
[Invention is the easy bit, Jun 21st 2001, From The Economist print edition]
Innovative Design Delft designs and develops electronic- and information systems since 1980. We are strictly focused on new things, complex problems and pushing the edge. Innovative Design Delft designs and produces electronics from the simplest analog products up to the most complex high speed optical communications systems with large gate arrays. We have 20+ year experience with development and maintenance of all thinkable kinds of software.
Website design, building and, above all, maintenance is done by our sister company ii.nl.
Current: FT system for Lawful Interception (internet tapping) by Internet providers.
Consultancy
Our highly experienced staff is keen at making strategic technical decisions
and capable of solving complex technical problems. As we design and produce complex electronics since 1980, we
have a thorough understanding of development of software and both digital and analog electronics. If you need a
very quick, thorough and independent report on a complex technological project, don't hesitate to contact us. We
are described by customers as "technical McKinsey" and by the other side as "technical lawyers".
Design
About half of our design efforts is in partnership with distributors.
Manufacturing
Small scale manufacturing of special products.
| 1980 | First (analog) products developed, first 1000 pieces production quantity. |
| 1982 | Nitelite, portable VU-meter, worn by Eurovision Song Contest woman presenter. First digital computer system developed with digital interface to a professional video recorder system. |
| 1985 | Pronto! Programmable Read Only Memory programmer |
| 1985-1986 | Sophie, a Multi user Unix computer, with MMU, DMA, DRAM refresh and first SCSI interface. |
| 1989-2001 | MIW-02 Eurocard with CPU, DSP, AD/DA converter, and floppy controller for direct recording of speech on a floppy. |
| 1990-2001 | MIW-01 Eurocard with CPU, DSP, AD/DA, and SCSI controller for direct recording of speech on harddisk or digital tape. |
| 1992-2003 | M-64 Phone line recorder, based on MIW-01, records audio and all known signalling systems with call data to both 200MB, 17 hr SCSI hard-disk and 2.5GB, 170 hr SCSI tape-drive. |
| 1994-now | Z++ / Unicom, special communication system for elderly people distributed by Tyco Wormald Zettler. |
| 1994-now | SI-Series recorders based on Windows-NT, fully integrated in the Windows environment. |
| 1995-now | KY-xx series stand allone access controllers with Dallas Key reading, audible alarm, large key memory, RS-232. With a free Key4Win Windows/NT logging and control software package. |
| 1998-now | PP-00 2x 2Mbit ISDN to PCI interface with special provisions for tapping both directions of a 2 Mbit ISDN interface. |
| 2000-now | WM-00 A simple but versatile system for registering and forwarding alarm calls within a facility. |
| 2001-now | E-knip high-speed web search engine software that scans new text only for the occurrence of 10.000+ words submitted by subscribers. |
| 2001-now | FT-x easy to install and maintain system for Internet tapping by Internet Providers. With the FT-x dual hardware loopback 155-2480 Mbps Multirate and Multi Protocol Fiber Tap PCI-card. This PCI-card taps dual full rate OC-3 / OC-12 / OC-48 ATM and POS and Gigabit Ethernet data streams. print layout |
| 2002-now | iidesk, versatile database viewing modules for web-based office automation. Careful design of the speedy agenda viewing module allows compression of 600KB high-content HTML data to 30KB for fast transmission to any browser. |
| 2003-now | FT-y system, secure modular distribution and recording system for data intercepted by Internet Providers. |
| 2004-now | RSSknip software for high speed near real time analysis of 500,000+ RSS feeds, front end for the E-knip engine. |
Mail:
Box 3215
2601 DE DELFT
NetherlandsMaterials: Koornmarkt 34
2611 EH DELFT
NetherlandsPhone: +31 15 214 02 44 Fax: +31 15 214 06 33 E-Mail: contact@idd.nl
