For SimTable
Santa Fe, NM
SimTable
(Employing Garner Total Energy systems engineering and user interface design expertise)
The SimTable is a colaboration tool based on the sand tables that fire and emergency management teams have used for many years.
SimTable enhances the utility of this education and training tool by incorporating computer modelling. SimTable uses a projector-camera
pair to measure and monitor the sand, objects on the table, and to create the user interface. For example, the fire model will simulate a fire starting
by lighting a cigarette lighter on the table. It lets us play with light in the sand.
SimTable website.
Garner Total Energy
Santa Fe, NM
iPhone Apps
GTE has been working on moving map and map data related software since 1990.
Garner Total Energy has developed
numerous mobile applications starting with early handheld PC's (HP-95 and HP-100)
and including all generations of Windows CE and Windows Mobile devices,
including the latest CE.NET devices. Our projects include specialized applications
for auto testing, sailplane pilots and radiation monitoring.
Based on that experience, we are now developing three applications
for the iPhone platform, with plans to have our apps available on the App Store soon.
They will be listed here as soon as they appear on the App Store.
Garner Total Energy
Santa Fe, NM
Glide Navigator II
(Employing Garner Total Energy mobile device embedded software expertise)
Glide Navigator II is soaring software for a Pocket PC computer used by sailplane pilots
around the world. Its moving map navigation and glide functionality provide glider pilots
everything they need to fly their tasks as fast as possible without extra screen clutter.
Glide Navigator II’s large text and high contrast display offset readability issues common
to Pocket PC screens and its ease of use sets the standard for soaring software. Chip Garner
created the original, Glide Navigator in 1991 as a DOS program written in C, and has since
upgraded and converted it to a Windows Mobile.net program running on custom hardware.
For Cambridge Aero Instruments
Waitsfield, VT
300 Series Flight Computers
(Employing Garner Total Energy embedded software expertise)
Garner developed the embedded software for Cambridge Aero Instruments 300 Series, a
completely new variometer and sensor platform for soaring, including a 32 bit microprocessor
and Flash memory. The 300 series offers multiple display options, compact size and a new
standard of variometer performance and is and easily upgradeable by the pilot. The series
competition task support and includes a PC simulator and PC program for updating
includes an internal GPS receiver, is a complete FAI-approved Flight Recorder with a barograph
and engine run detection functions. The 302 will output NMEA 0183 including the GPS altitude
sentence, allowing the connection of Pocket-PCs running third party nav computer software.
For Cambridge Aero Instruments
Waitsfield, VT
L-NAV Final Glide Computers
(Employing Garner Total Energy embedded software expertise)
The embedded software for all Cambridge L-Nav and S-NAV Final Glide Computers is developed
by Garner. Designed to enhance gliding performance the L-Nav has sensors for altitude,
rate-of climb (variometer), airspeed, and vertical acceleration (with optional g-meter).
The instrument is configured with the glider polar (sink rate vs. airspeed) and is compatible
with any GPS receiver having an NMEA-0183 output, but is optimized for use with the Cambridge GPS-NAV.
For Cambridge Aero Instruments
Waitsfield, VT
GPS-NAV Flight Logger
(Employing Garner Total Energy embedded software expertise)
Embedded software for all versions of the Cambridge GPS Navigator & Secure Flight Recorder (
GPS-NAV) is developed by Garner. The Flight Recorder contains a GPS Receiver, an LCD Display,
software for an IBM compatible Personal Computer (PC) and a connection to a Cambridge Nav
computer. It records 9900 GPS Fixes and Flight Logs can be transferred to a PC using a serial
data cable. Because gliding needs different navpoint data than most types of aviation GPS-NAV
navigation data originates in a PC database program rather than the GPS-NAV itself. Cambridge’s
new Version 5 PC software tools, created by Garner, make it easy to construct custom navpoint
databases for the GPS-NAV from large National Databases.
For Eberline Instruments Corp.
Santa Fe, NM
(Employing Garner Total Energy embedded software expertise)
Garner embedded software was developed for dozens of radiation monitoring devices
produced by the leader in design and manufacturing of radiation detection instrumentation,
Eberline, between 1997 and 2004. Applications included hand held, walk in, vehicle,
and conveyer best systems, many capable of being networked with PC’s for monitoring,
alarming and reporting. Additionally Garner was responsible for the development of new
instruments, modified existing instruments and ported code from Assembler to C to
simplify future upgrades.
For Medfilms Inc.,
Tucson, AZ
MedfilmsOnline Medical Training Web Site
(Employing Garner Total Energy web and database software expertise)
(ASP.NET, ADO.NET, VB.NET, .NET Framework 2.0)
When Medfilms Inc., needed to provide online interactivity for medical professional
training courses like Bioterrorism for Health Care; Ethics in Health Care; Radiation
Safety for Environmental Workers; and Operating Room Fire; Medfilms turned to Chip Garner’s firm.
Garner created an online platform capable of engaging students as participants not viewers,
ensuring that each mastered the required competency before advancing; adapted to individual
learning styles, and could complete whole courses quickly by testing out. MedfilmsOnline
software is so easy to use that it does not required student training or orientation.
www.medfilmsonline.com
For Medfilms Inc.,
Tucson, AZ
Course Manager
(Employing Garner Total Energy desktop and database software expertise)
(ADO.NET, VB.NET, .NET Framework 2.0)
Garner on-line PC software, using eleven interacting tables on data bases enables Medfilms to
create new on line courses and modify existing courses by providing full, discreet access to
competition task support and includes a PC simulator and PC program for updating
course objectives, general course information, questions and answers, and video elements.
No knowledge of SQL or table content and interaction is required and a database programmer
is not needed with this software to develop and edit courses.
Garner Total Energy
Santa Fe, NM
Online Backup
(Employing Garner Total Energy desktop and database software expertise)
A consumer and administrators’ program consisting of a user friendly interface for backing-up
data to and recovering data from a remote server and an administrative program to track customers,
storage usage, and billing for automated overnight back-up services on either Windows or Linux servers.
For Honda R&D Americas, Inc.,
Cantil, CA
&
Smithers Scientific Services Inc.,
Akron, OH
Automotive Test Evaluation Software ...
(Employing Garner Total Energy desktop software expertise)
Written by Garner for the Honda test track in California, and later modified for use by
Smithers Scientific Services at their automotive testing facility in Virginia, this software
downloads GPS logs from recorders created by Cambridge Aero Instruments, analyzes the logs
and produces reports to the customer’s specifications. The software, still in use by both
firms, was written in C++. At Honda, it monitors test drives both on track and on the road,
determining that test were undertaken as planned and reported on an interactive map and graphical
data display. Smithers uses a version of the software in their on road tire testing program
employing a template of speeds, lights and top signs, measuring acceleration along a prescribed
route and producing detailed reports that flag deviations in route, speed, and rates of acceleration.