Pentland Edge is an embedded software design consultancy using agile software development practices to bring new products and technologies to market quickly
Services
Pentland Edge undertakes contract software design work for clients ranging from start-ups to multinational companies. Our strength is in understanding new technologies and techniques, and helping clients to deploy these in their products.
Projects
Pentland Edge has been involved in a broad range of projects. Many clients have used our developers to create the 'brains' of the application – the algorithms and control aspects of embedded systems.
Latest blog / Building the Next Generation of Trackers
I previously worked on an airborne ground surveillance radar tracker for one of the large defence manufacturers. I found the technology very interesting. It combines clever algorithms, real world experience, working within the limits of the computing platform resources available, and knowing how to hold up under heavy system load. Many of the design decisions made on that particular project were conservative: aimed at increasing the odds of delivering within time and budget, at the price of delivering a less capable tracker than might have been possible. This was the right approach for that project, but I was left wondering […]