Partial
list of executed projects:
Name of the project
Development and
Maintenance of Central Tools
Client Location
Nokia Siemens
Technology and tools
deployed
.NET Framework
1.1, .NET Framework 2.0, ASP.NET, C#
Name of the project
Porting/Customizing CE 4.2 OS on ViaCEPC ETX board
Client Location
Azonix
Technology and tools
deployed
.NET Framework 2.0, C#
Name of the project
Design and
Development of OPC Server for Controller used in Building automation.
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Visual C++,
Windows NT
Description
Bells developed two OPC servers. Both the servers are used for collecting
real-time data from the controllers. These OPC Server are based an OPC (OLE
for Process Control) Data Access 2.03 standard. This software is used for
gathering the plant floor data being collected by two types of controllers
and the same data being made available to other third party OPC clients.
These OPC Servers
allows third-party OPC-based client applications to access data in AC and
Infinity controllers through an Ethernet network.
From an OPC-compatible client application, you can:
• View points from field controllers
• Poll data for history collection and trending
• Change parameters
• Adjust set points
• Control outputs
Other features include
• Access Data from Both controllers via OPC based Client Applications
• Industry-standard OPC Provides Seamless, Open Communications between
Different
Manufacturers’ Devices and Databases
• Eliminates
Need for Custom Driver Development and Resulting Driver Conflicts between
Devices
• Compatible with Many Popular Third-party Client Applications
Runs on Familiar
Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems over Ethernet TCP/IP
Name of the project
Simulator
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++, WIN - NT
Description
The software
simulates controller Public APIs.Using this
software a process control server can communicate with any number of
simulated controllers and subcontrollers and
supply data to a process control client.
Name of the Project
Bells Modbus OPC Server
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Windows NT,VC++
Description
Bells Modbus OPC Server (also called BMOS) is developed for
providing the facility to monitor any Modbus
compatible devices. Bells Modbus OPC Server
provides connectivity to Modbus compatible
devices using both Modbus TCP and RS-232 Serial
communication. The server runs as a stand-alone executable on Windows NT
& Windows 2000. The Server supports both local and remote operation, so
it can be run on a local machine or any computer on your network. Devices
and OPC Server Tags can be configured using our Explorer style Configurator application or you can import Tag database
from CSV (Comma Separated Values) format.
Name of the Project
BORB Server
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Windows NT,
VC++
Description
Bells ORB is
developed for OPC client applications that use redundant OPC servers to achieve
the highest degree of communication reliability. It works like a
pass-through OPC server between the OPC client applications and the OPC
primary and standby servers. The client, instead of connecting to the OPC
server directly, connects to the Bells ORB, which in turn connects to the
primary and standby OPC servers, thus providing the server redundancy. As
the OPC standard does not address the redundancy issues inherently, Bells
ORB provides the same. Bells ORB allows the
OPC-Enabled applications to use two OPC servers. As such the top-level
application does not need to be aware of the standby OPC server. It simply
connects to the Bells ORB and the Bells ORB handles the OPC server’s
communication, redundancy and other aspects. The Bells ORB achieves this by
registering with COM and intercepting calls to the OPC Server. When ORB
detects that the primary OPC server fails, it immediately switches to the
Standby OPC server and continues passing data along. Therefore, the
top-level application is not even aware that a failure occurred. The Bells
ORB supports both local and remote operation, so it can be run on a local
machine or any computer on your network.
Name of the Project
OPCDA Server
for XBS System
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
C++, VC++,
COM/DCOM, Windows NT 4.0
Description
The project is
to develop an OPC Data Access server for the client’s control system. The
Server developed as per OPCDA Custom Interface 2.04 standard, so that any
OPC standard client can communicate with the server and access the points
in the client’s control system. The server is ATL COM enabled MFC
application. The OPC DA Server gets the points from client’s control system
and manages those points and updates the client.
Name of the Project
WAP enabled OPC
client
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++, SQL
server, Nokia server
Description
Bells has developed
OPC-WAP Client product wherein the data can be obtained from any OPC Data
Access Server and
- Made available to a WAP
enabled Cell phone.
- Displayed on the OPC Client
GUI
- Accessed over Internet
In addition to data
monitoring, the user can set the value from the Cells phone and this value
will be sent to the OPC Server for updating the controller.
Additionally, the user can specify the alarm limits for the items and on
exceeding the limits
- Automatically send a SMS
message to his mobile.
- Automatically dial the
given phone number & play the configured Wave files
The interface to a
telephone is through the Dialogic card D21H with Springware-2 software
-System Release Version 5.0 for Windows. Some of the APIs used are dx_open, dx_deltones, dx_sethook, dx_clrcap, dx_dial, dx_playwav, dx_close, dx_stopch etc.
Real Time Projects
Name of the project
Panel Configuration software
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++, ATL COM,
VB, Windows NT
Description
The main
objective of this system is to communicate with display panels) using
proprietary Hex protocol. The configured panels will communicate with the PLCs. Protocol supports Uploading, Downloading and
Verifying operation with panels. Uploading will send the configured data
from the panels to the OPC GUI. So that Operators can know what is
configured in connected Panel. Downloading will send data from OPC GUI to
the connected panel. So that Operators can write their configuration to the
connected panel. Verifying will check both the configured data in the panel
and the data in the GUI. If any difference is there then it will inform the
operator. Each panel has its own data. Available data types are
Pushbuttons, Setpoints, Fieldpoints,
Menus and Messages. Also user can do above-mentioned operations with
multiple panels at a time by using communication Gateway. In that case each
panel has different Base Addresses. That is base address for each panel
should be unique in multiple panel selection. Before sending any data to
the panel user has to select PLC configuration and communication
parameters. PLC configuration are plc type, plc family and plc model.
Communication parameters are comm port, baudrate, parity, stop bit, start bits and number of data
bits. Here the nature of communication is Serial communication using
RS232C. This main system contains two modules. GUI module is designed by
Visual Basic. This module will get configuration info from the user and
pass that to functionality module. Functionality module is designed using
Visual C++. Functionality module is an ATL dll.
It handles all the functionalities for forming protocol messages and
communicating with the panel.
Name of the project
Design and
development of device driver for Intel Pro PCI card.
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
C, RTOS,
product of the customer
Description
RTOS is a real
time extension over the Windows NT platform. It has been designed and
developed by the client. Initially it did not have the TCP/IP support. For
that TCP/IP stack had been ported. We have added ODI specification support
to the RTOS. The acronym of ODI is Open Data-Link Interface. The ODI
specification provides for communications between a variety of protocols
and media, LAN drivers called Multiple Link Interface Drivers (MLIDs). The Link Support Layer (LSL) handles the
transfer of information between MLIDs and
protocol stacks. MLID is the heart of the ODI specification. According to
ODI specification, for every supported NIC (Network Interface Card)
separate MLID has to be provided. We have developed MLID for Intel Pro PCI
card (82559) so that 82559 can be used in the RTOS as the network
interface. This MLID will exchange the data between 82559 NIC and TCP/IP
stack through LSL. DMA device driver for Intel-pro Ethernet card.
Bells developed a
device driver on a Real-Time kernel for Intel-pro Ethernet card. The Bells
also provided APIs to be used by other developer for drivers for DMA
devices. The driver was developed as per ODI specifications.
Name of the Project
Qualifying RTOS
on various versions of Windows (NT, 2000) service pack
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++ 6.0, WIN
NT
Description
Ethernet and
TCP/IP Support for RTOS and it have been employed successfully as a
Real-Time extension to Windows NT both by Client and by client’s customers.
Name of the Project
Portings TCP/IP stack to RTOS
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++, Device
driver, ODI, TCP/IP protocols, Win NT
Description
Bells has been
evaluated by an US
based Process Controls company for capability to work on enhancements and
maintenance of their real time extension to Windows NT. After the
evaluation, Bells has been awarded the contract for implementation of
TCP/IP for the real time kernel.
Name of the Project
Sequence of
Event Monitor
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Solaris and Venix platforms
Description
This is
real-time application software to enable the user for pre- as well as post-
trip analysis of event-sequence at millisecond resolution. This package
monitors contact bouncing and sequence of trips and provides immediate
output to the printer as well as to the database. The trip sequence
reported in the database can be analyzed on the basis of date and time. The
system also includes user-friendly GUI and provides operational features
over the network. This was developed on Solaris and Venix
platforms.
Name of the Project
Data Communication
Bridge for Control System (Level 1) and Optimizer
(Level 2) applications
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++, Sun Sparc
Description
This was a
Bridge System for data communication using TCP/IP between SUN SPARCstation
running Solaris and DEC Alpha station running Open VMS. The plant control
(Level 1) was hosted by the SUN sparc and a
model-based optimization system (for steel cast cooling) was running in DEC
Alpha (Level 2). Tasks were written for bi-directional data transfer and
subsequent control action with the computed values generated by Level 2
system. The program also included the feature of link health monitoring and
use of static table in the event of link failure.
Name of the Project
Extending Group
File Systems (MGFS)
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++, Windows
NT
Description
The client had a
proprietary application to accelerate the delivery of media data between
the clients and servers. This was mainly done to overcome the limitations
imposed by workings of NT shared file system. This s/w overcomes these
limitations by the clients requesting data from servers directly bypass
file system using TCP/IP and MGFS being able to perform optimum sized IO to
local disk system.
Now this project is
mainly concentrated on enhancements of the MGFS functionality. One of the
main enhancements of this software is, it has to
provide filter functionality over NTFS. For this purpose one File System
Filter Driver has been developed. This will sit over the NTFS. So all the
requests are sent to the NTFS through the Filter driver only. Based on the
files it will reroute the request (MGFS or NTFS).
HMI projects
Name of the Project
Development of ActiveX Controls for Windows CE based Operator Panel
Client Location
Italy
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++ 6.0,
Embedded VC++ 3.0,Windows CE/ Windows NT
Description:
Bells has a
sole developer relationship with an European
industrial display panels manufacturer since June 2001. Over 19 ActiveX
controls have been developed so far for their HMI applications.
These controls can be
classified as
·
Visualisation Controls
·
Core HMI processing controls
Visualisation controls are used to create
Process mimics and also depict the run time process data in different forms
in the process mimic. Some of the controls developed are
·
Drawing primitives like
o
Line
o
Arc
o
Ellipse
o
Circle
o
Box
o
RoundBox etc.
·
Advanced drawing primitives like
o
Static Text
o
Static Image etc.
·
Indicator controls to represent process data like
o
Gauge
o
Bar
o
Continuous Selector
o
Discrete Selector
o
Continuous Knob
o
Discrete Knob
o
Dynamic Text
o
Dynamic Image
o
Grid etc.
·
Action controls to trigger a user specified action like
o
Touch Button
These controls are
developed using ActiveX Control Wizard, Visual C++ 6.0, and Embedded VC++
3.0. These controls have been developed to work under both NT/2000 and
Windows CE 3.0.
Core HMI Processing
controls are the background components, which acquire data from the field
and manage it. Some of the controls developed in this category are
·
OPC Client, which collects the data from the OPC Server
·
Data Server, which collects the data from OPC Client and provides
process data to all other manager controls like Alarm Manager, Display
Manager, Print Manager, History Manager etc.
·
Alarm Manager, which checks for Alarms, manages Alarm buffers/queues
and provides Alarm data for other applications of Alarm Display, Logging
and Printing.
·
Tag, which is a process monitoring entity configured by the user and
managed by the Data Server
·
Alarm Observer , which is the Alarm Display
Manager which interfaces between the Alarm Manager (Alarm Data Source) and
the Grid (Alarm Data Display).
The Core processing
controls have been developed using ATL, ActiveX Control Wizard, Windows CE
3.0, VC++, Embedded VC++ 3.0
Name of the Project
VTWINCE ActiveX
Controls
Client Location
Italy
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++ 6.0,
Embedded VC++ 3.0,Windows CE/ Windows NT
Description:
VTWIN-CE-Phase
1 – 4 controls
VTWIN-CE-Phase 2 (Indicator) – 6 controls
VTWIN-CE-Phase 3 (Drawing) – 6 controls
VTWINCE-Phase 4 (Revision of all earlier controls) – 16 controls
VTWIN-CE–Phase 5 – 1 control (DataField)
VTWIN-CE-Phase 6 – 2 controls (Tag & DataServer)
VTWIN-CE–Phase 7 – 2 controls (ActiveAlarm &
Alarm Manager)
VTWIN-CE–Phase 8 – 1 control (Touch Button)
VTWINCE-Phase 9 (Revision of all Visualisation
controls) – 17 controls
VTWIN-BL-Phase 1
- 18 classes
VTWIN-BL-Phase 2
3 nos. Phase 2 classes & Revision of Phase 1
VTWIN-BL-Phase 3
- 19 classes
Name of the Project
Human-Machine
Interface for Turbine Control System
Client Location
USA
Model
Offshore and
Onsite
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++, MFC, DCOM
and ActiveX controls complying with OPC standards 1.1
Description:
We have
developed a comprehensive Human-machine Interface (HMI) for control of
Turbine system. The control tasks were achieved through A-B PLC. Various
drivers like DH+, Ethernet and Modbus were
integrated with HMI Server. The system has been developed using
technologies like VC++, MFC, DCOM and ActiveX controls complying with OPC
standards 1.1. The features like Project Configurator,
Historian, Report Generator, Graphics Developer, Operator’s Stations, and
web enabling were part of the development activity.
Protocol related projects
Name of the Project
Accusonic 7510 Flowmeter I/O Driver Interface
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++, MFC,
Windows NT tools like ASDK (Advance Server Development Kit), FIX - 32
Description:
The main objective of this system is to develop an I/O driver Interface
between Accusonic model 7510 flowmeter
and FIX 32 V7.0. This I/O Driver communicates with a multiple Accusonic 7510 flow meters (maximum of 254) for a given
serial channel. The I/O driver interfaces to a maximum of 8 standard RS-232
or RS-485 serial ports (Using 8 serial port digiboard).
This system contains Process software, I/O driver and Process hardware
layers. Process hardware layer contains Accusonic
flowmeters. I/O drivers contains I/O Driver
server (Developed by us), which gets the flowmeter
parameters and provide interface to the I/O driver power tool, which is
used to configure the driver. Fix32 is the process control software. This
I/O driver can communicate with FIX – 32 application
or any OPC (OLE for process control) client application.
Name of the Project
Enhancement of
HART OPC server from Version 1.0a to 2.05
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Win NT 4.0
Language: VC++Dev Tools: MSDN
Description:
HART “open” communication
protocol is used mainly in process automation. This project is related to
OPC server up gradation from the existing 1.0 version to latest OPC version
i.e. 2.04. This project involves studying the existing
code which is Version 1.0 compliant and make necessary design
changes for Ver 2.04 compliance.
Name of the Project
Conisio
Web Client
Client Location
Sweden
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VC++ 6.0, ATL,
Windows NT
Description:
Conisio
Web Client project is to transfer files between clients and server. The
server starts running on the request from ArchiverServerExe.
Upon execution first the server does is creating a thread, in which all
work will be performed. The main process continues listening for the next
request. The thread uses the interface IRevisionArchive
for accessing the file vault and then read or writes to the newly created
socket. At the server side one log is maintained for entering the requests
from the clients. Client requests Server for Adding File, Putting File,
Getting File, Rollback, and Deleting File. Server gives the appropriate
acknowledgment back to the client after completion of the operation. While
the server in process stores the data in compressed form. Shutting down of
the server is blocked till all the client requests are completed.
This project contains
two modules FileVaultClient.dll at client side, ArchiveModule.dll at server
side for file transfer, developed in VC++(6.0).
The WinSocket a wrapper class for WinSock2 in
VC++ is used for communication between client and server.
Name of the Project
Control System
Interface For Unicenter TNG (CSIUT)
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VB6.0, SQL
Server 6.5, Windows NT 4, Sybase, SUN Solaris 2.4
Description:
The objective
of this project was to achieve to-and-fro data communication between
various control systems / Data Acquisition devices / Multiplexers / PLCs and software framework of Unicenter
TNG. We developed various agents for different types of systems and for
various protocols. SNMP protocol was to integrate control system
infrastructure with the software framework. This enables the user to
integrate seamlessly the shop floor and the management network
applications. The system is particularly useful for heterogeneous control
system and data acquisition system environment in an enterprise. The
prototype has been developed for Foxboro System. This project is part of
Development Partnership Program of Computer Associates International.
Name of the Project
Layer 2
Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Red Hat Linux
6.0 /C++
Description:
L2TP software
is an implementation of the IETF Draft (RFC 2661). It’s an in-house
development project. BellsL2TP will be used by ISPs and Corporate Gateways
for extending the functionality of the PPP (RFC1661)/MP over an Internet.
Other System software projects
Name of the Project
Checkout
software for payloads
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VB6.0, SQL
Server 7.0, VC++ , WinNT 4.0
Description:
This software
has been developed for an Indian company for its critical operations and is
basically for evaluating the performance of their data collection. The
application is very complex because of the binary data processing involved
and the variety of data processing types required. It is a typical
three-tier architecture application
The Client Tier or the
GUI is in Visual Basic, as it has flexibility in designing GUI and has more
easily accessible features to communicate with the database. The GUI part
is mainly used to get the inputs from the user, entering those inputs into
the database after validating them and displaying the contents of the
database or the output of the Data Acquisition component in the form of
Reports and Graphs. The GUI will talk to the database for doing operations
like Login Validation, Database Entry and other simple database related
works. The communication between the database and the GUI is through the
Microsoft’s in-built component ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). The GUI part has
provisions to manage the database also, like taking Backup of the database
and Restoring it.
The Application Server
Tier is for acquiring and processing the data and has been developed as a
Component in Visual C++. This component gets called from the GUI and after
doing the necessary operations, will return the output to the GUI. The data
can be processed in different ways; each and every way has separate method
in the Component. For processing the data in a particular way, the
corresponding method will be called along with the parameters like start
word, end word, acquisition mode etc., from the GUI. Based on these inputs,
the Component gets some more related information from the Database using ADO and will do the
data processing. After finishing the processing, it will return the output
in a specified format to the GUI for displaying to the user.
The database is in SQL
Server.
Name of the Project
Review of
Embedded Onboard Satellite tele-command Processor
Software.
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Assembly 8086
Description:
Formal review
process with advanced preparation, planned and
scheduled as a milestone to detect defects, with identified roles of
Moderator, Author, Reader and Inspectors. 10,000 lines of 8086 assembly
code and 58 pages of data reviewed.
Name of the Project
Migration
Wizard
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
C, C++
Description:
Migration
Wizard is a complete application to handle upgradation
from old PC platforms, viz., from old PC with Win 3X, 9X to 9X, 2K, and XP.
It is a self-contained software designed to be a
user-friendly tool useful in migrating applications, data and device
related information from 16 bit or 32 bit PCs to Windows 98 / Windows 2000
platform. The applications installed in old machines are listed using the
registries. Then depending on application program we analyzed by analyzing
the executables. The application, dependent DLLs, executables and data
files are all transferred to a new PC (with new OS installed) on a parallel
link.
Name of the Project
Intergration of bug tracking system with CMT (iNetTrack)
Client Location
India
Model
On site
Technology and tools
deployed
Visual Basic,
ASP, COM using ATL
Description:
iNetTrack is an internet based product of the client ,
which deals with incidence management which is helpful for Customer
Support, Software development , defect management etc., within an
organization . The functionality of the product had to be further extended
by integrating it with a version control system (e.g. Visual SourceSafe).
Whenever a defect ID comes in iNetTrack Server , The same should be visible to the programmer
who is assigned the job (i.e Client side) .Also,
whenever he checks in some files , the Ids entered by him should be
validated against iNetTrack Ids. For
communication between the server and the client m/c ,
ASP is used .
Name of the Project
Enhancement of
GroupWise Messaging System
Client Location
India
Model
On site
Technology and tools
deployed
Windows
NT/Win2000.
Description:
Enhancement of
Gateways for integration of GroupWise Messaging System with different
Messaging Systems. The third party messaging systems are Lotus Notes and
Microsoft Exchange.
Driver related projects
Name of the Project
Keyboard Driver for PocketPC (Windows CE) for
iBiz keyboard
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed \
Windows CE 3.0
/ embedded VC++ 3.0
Description:
Bells has
developed a Windows CE based Device Driver for external Keyboard Device
connected to the PocketPC through serial port.
The keyboard was a serial keyboard for PocketPC
running on Windows CE 3.0. The device driver was tested for several
processors like MIPS, SH3 and StrongARM.
The salient features of
the driver are listed below
- The driver installs itself
automatically using RAPI (Remote Application Programming Interface).
- Auto-detect to decipher
when handheld is plugged into PocketPC.
- International character
compatibility.
- Security for the driver –
so that it cannot be copied and used by competitors.
- Provides “Escape” key
functionality.
The Driver provides
‘Hot Keys’ functionality.
Avionics Projects
Name of the Project
Avionics testing assignments
Client Location
India
Model
On site
Description:
1. Testing of Flat
Panel Display (FPD)
The project involves the modification / enhancement of a code as per the
requirements. This is Display Unit for pilot, who can easily watch the
display unit and which helps for drive and provide even macro details.
2. Verification of Display Units of Airplane Cockpits
Display Units in the cockpit help Pilot in
Navigation. They display all the navigational information like Magnetic and
True North heading, airplane speed, altitude, terrain type, barometric
pressure, plane health information, attitude, pitch, wind speed roll and so
on. These are displayed as graphic information compared to analog type
meters that are found both old and new type planes, these are more
accurate, sophisticate
3. EPIC DU 1080
The Primus Epic Displays software is the application software responsible
for nearly the entire pilot interface features in the cockpit of the
aircraft.
4. Visual Guidance
System
The purpose of the Visual Guidance System (VGS) is to present important
aircraft performance and control information to the pilot within the
forward field of view.
5. Testing of EPIC displays for AGUSTA AB139 helicopter
These displays are the advanced displays with cursor control interfaces,
basically its a black box testing which involves
writing test scripts for test cases and are following DO178B standard.
Name of the Project
MD-10 AIRCRAFT
INTERFACE UNIT.
Client Location
India
Model
On site
Technology and tools
deployed
C on VAX/VMS
Tools: TMC, AIBWMS, X-Ray debugger.
Description:
MD-10 aircraft system
will use three identical AIU's that are connected
to various MD-10 aircraft avionics systems In addition to Honeywell VIA'S.
The AIU'S are tasked with Processing analog and digital signals from MD-10
and Transmitting processed data to the VIA'S. The AIU is a single Channel
data concentrator that performs processing for the Following MD-10 aircraft
systems.
·
MD-10 AIU Function Control (FC) logic
- Converts analog and
discrete data from the following aircraft systems. Engines,
- Pneumatic-system, hydraulic-system
etc.
- Transmits the converted
analog and discrete data to the
- Versatile Integrated
Avionics (VIA) unit in an ARINC 429 format.
Web Application projects
Name of the Project
Bells Biz
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Java, JDK 1.2, servlets, SQL server, HTML, WML, WAP server, Java
script, WIN 9x/NT
Description:
Bells-Biz is a
product developed by Bells. It is an application-solution framework or a
toolkit for generating E-Commerce and M-Commerce applications. Based on the
user inputs, Biz generates the client scripts and server scripts that use
the rules, data and processes to automate the business transactions. Biz
also maintains the data about the application generated. Biz framework can be
customized for any industry.
Name of the Project
Micro Browser
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Windows NT Platform Development tool: ANSII C, C++, PEG Library
Description:
Customer has a microbrowser which can be ported on to any OS for
handheld / mobile devices. The browser has been optimized for performance
over such devices (low footprint, small display area etc.). The browser is
specially tuned to optimally perform for dedicated web sites/pages and is
made compliant to COMPACT HTML. The existing version would not handle all
features of HTML 3.2/4.0. In addition the browser needs to be enhanced to
handle Java script.
The project was to
enhance capabilities of Microbrowser from the
customer with capabilities to handle Java script (ECMA 262[1] script) as
well as complete HTML 3.2/4.0/ Compact HTML.
Name of the Project
SparK
Web Site
Client Location
India
Model
On site
Technology and tools
deployed
HTML, DHTML, ASP,
JavaScript Oracle 8i, Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS)
Description:
SPARK (Software
Process Assets & Related Knowledge) is a web-based knowledge management
system of software process assets and related knowledge. The web-site has
two major objectives:
- Provide information to
users in implementing software engineering processes and tools.
- Provide easy administrative
maintenance of the organizational software process assets and best
practices.
Some of the salient
features of SPARK are as follows: Users can publish Articles, give
reference links to articles on the web. The site allows users to search for
process assets such as policies, standards, processes, procedures and
tools. The Admins can upload documents to the
site or delete documents from the site. The application will take care of
putting the docs in appropriate folders on the server. Other features
include Hit Counter, Report generation, Restricted Entry, Web-site usage
statistics.
Name of the Project
BellsMart
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
Windows NT,
Language: ASP, HTML, JavaScript, SQL Server, Microsoft Site Server
Description:
This
application provides a WAP interface to the Site Server 3.0 Commerce
edition, which will enable shopping cart generation on a mobile device like
a WAP enabled Cell Phone. Microsoft Site Server is a powerful intranet tool
used for rapid generation of e-business applications. It provides option
for both B2B and B2C business application. It provisions for all transactions
either commercial or documentary like sales and order management over web.
Name of the Project
Pluggable
Bulletin Board System
Client Location
USA
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
HTML, JAVA and
MOD PERL languages
Description:
The Pluggable
Bulletin board service is a web based application which is designed in such
a way that the subscriber of this service can place a bulletin board on to
his web page by just cut and paste method. The usage of this application is
as a customizable notice board for exchange of information in any groups.
This application provides options for customization like topics and
categories, look and color, change password etc,. he service provider or manager can place the customized
bulletin board onto his web page in which all the visitors to his web page
can post or read the messages posted.
Name of the Project
Configurator
Client Location
India
Model
Off Shore
Development
Technology and tools
deployed
VB 6.0, MS
Access, MS SQL
Description:
Softvent Configurator is used to configure the
Inventory screen depending on the user input. The user can create custom
fields by using the Document Designer screen. The user can also create the
custom fields for the Header, Footer, Detail and Formulas section of the
Inventory screen. All these information will be stored in MS Access
database, which is then used to configure the Inventory screen.
Bells experience
in Offshore Development setup
Bells
management has an extensive experience in setting up support centers and
transitioning product support from US/UK to India in their previous
assignments. Bells has carried out continued
development in project as well as ODC model to the clients. Following table
lists some of these assignments
|
Sl No
|
Project
|
Technologies
|
Team
Size (Upto)
|
Project
Duration
|
Client
|
|
1
|
Offshore
Support for RTOS
(involves interactions with client’s end users)
|
•
RTOS (Real Time Operating System layer over NT/2000)
• applications on
RTOS
• NT/2000 system
services
• HK TCP/IP
• VC++
• X86 Assembly
Language
|
1
Team Lead and 2 engineers
|
3
years
|
US
Client
|
|
2
|
Onsite
support for GroupWise gateways
|
• MS
Exchange gateway
• Lotus Notes gateway
• Async
gateway
|
1 Team
Lead and 4 engineers
|
2.5
years
|
Indian
Client
|
|
3
|
Offshore
Development
Center
|
• Activex Controls
• NT/WIN CE
|
1
Team Lead
and 6 engineers
|
3
years
|
Italian
Client
|
|
4
|
Offshore
Development
Center
|
•
Compressor/Engine Diagnostic System
• QNX (RTOS)
|
1
Team Lead and two engineers
|
1
year
|
US
Client
|
|
5
|
Offshore
Development center
|
•
Real Video data file transfer, Asset Management
|
1
Team Lead and 2 engineers
|
2
years
|
US
Client
|
|
6
|
Project
|
•
Integration of Bug tracking & support system
|
1
team lead and 6 engineers
|
6
Months
|
Multinational
in India
|
|
7
|
Offshore
Development
|
•
Data Acquisition using GSM technology
|
2
Engineers
|
1.5
years
|
UK Client
|
|
8
|
Project
|
• Driver
for Win CE devices & PLC’s
|
3
Engineers
|
1.5
years
|
UK Client
|
