We are very happy with our new addition: Rik Gorissen! Rik is a hardware engineer who also dares to take the stage. He likes to show what kind of "cool electronics" we make here. And he's a good one too, because he doesn't shy away from a presentation in front of 200 people in live streams.

Rik finds the applications - like the ones we do here - for Defence, the Maritime sector and Aerospace "really cool". Working on quality and that it should never break down. First he is doing his graduation project Electrical Engineering with us. He works on our new floating GTTS-5000 Solar Tracker and does the re-design of the hardware by expanding functionality. "Cool also the applications of the GTTS-5000 in the off-shore, cleaning up junk in the ocean and also for floating energy parks at sea."

After that, he's going to make a lot of great stuff for us. Anyway, we are lucky to have such a new talent.

Designing and manufacturing a Cat1 transceiver is a time consuming and expensive job because the requirements of ETSI and FCC are very high. For example the requirements on harmonic distortions. We therefore use special narrow band filters. Another example is the requirement for an indestructible radio connection despite possible interference or a large number of other radio signals in the vicinity. We have developed the radio protocol for this ourselves. The test setup at Leap Development with 50 transceivers simultaneously shows in the stress and duration test that all requirements are met.

Cat1 transceivers are used when you need to be able to trust the radio connection blindly. For example in the medical world or in dangerous situations such as remote control emergency stop for cranes. The development of the Cat1 transceiver has taken 3 years and started with a request from one of our customers for their industrial remote control. With this development we have developed a new module for remote control applications.

Are you interested in a cat1 transceiver for your application? We would be happy to talk to you about it.

Jim Damman and Jeffrey Dijkstra are two students joining us. They do research on the use of the optimal components for an application. As Leap Development we have a lot of experience with this because our products are always made in the optimal ratio between battery usage, quality and costs. You can become smart about this and that is what these students are going to become. With our help of course.

A beautiful and important project for the welfare of military personnel on mission. We are developing the HUMS - Health and Usage Monitoring system for the living quarters. Information about temperature, humidity, equipment status etc. is transmitted together with the location. We used our basic module for this - the Leap Track-and-Trace System LTTS Core Module - and placed the whole thing in a robust housing. This makes it resistant to mechanical and climatic influences.

For storage containers the location and movement is important. Here, too, we have created a Core Module-based system and are offering it, in addition to this project, through our sister company GTTS and also through the platform provider BlackPoint.

We got this project through Marshall who were looking for Iridium solutions. We are the only developer in the Netherlands. Eventually GSM proved to be sufficient and we were able to use our Core Module. This GSM core based on LTE-M and GPS/Glonass gives us a head start on the speed of development for specific applications such as the T&T HUMS.

Gargoroo's loaner bike - cargoroo.nl - is hot in Amsterdam. Because parking your car in Amsterdam is a challenge. And when you cycle, you want more for practical things: more seats, space for groceries, more capacity... Electric cargo bikes are the solution, especially now that you can rent them. Cargoroo makes it cheap, easy, environmentally conscious and actually a lot of fun to take more with you.

We go through it often: design ready, an antenna on it and...? EMC problems! In the worst case this means a redesign from scratch. Often this can be prevented, that's why this blog has some handles.

Integrated design. In all our projects, the antenna is part of the design from the beginning. The influence of electronics, embedded software and especially the housing is big so you have to take it into account right from the start. We often don't see optimal antenna operation in equipment, because the antenna is only added in the late(er) phase. Adjustments to the design and sometimes even a complete redesign is then necessary with all costs and a later time-to-market.

Stable, customer-specific, short time-to-market, low-cost production. That is what we had in mind for our customers with track & trace applications using the latest GSM techniques (NB-IoT and LTE-M). The result is a modular system in which all our knowledge and experience is already present and extensively tested and therefore stable. Antenna design, modem, electronics, embedded software and housing belong together and can quickly be made specific for your application. You can quickly enter your market in your sector, even when 2G is deployed in the future. We offer production, airtime and cloud service through our sister company GTTS, which focuses on production and partnership.