Control Systems and IOT

industry

There are many exiting developments in the control system industry. This ranges from self driving cars to smart houses. Industry is becoming safer with more advanced control systems. The Internet of Things (IOT) is an exiting development in control systems.

I have worked on many different control systems ranging from Power Stations, Electrical Distribution, Energy Management, Building Management, Oil Pipelines and Advertisement Monitoring on broadcast radio and television. Many of the systems were geographically dispersed and used private Wide Area Networks to communicate. Very often the same protocols are used that the internet uses, but there is no connection to the internet.

The IOT is an exiting development with serious applications other than your fridge telling you the milk has gone bad. As the computing power of devices increase the IOT will become less centralised and there will be more peer to peer communication between devices. Applications are e.g. smart electricity meters managing the energy consumption of neighbouring buildings, or vehicles on the same road communicating between each other to prevent accidents.

The IOT is unfortunately still very immature technology and specifically in the security of consumer grade devices.

I am available for any industrial control or IOT projects and believe I can make a valuable contribution to your project.

System Administration

system Administration All modern organisations rely on many diverse information systems. Good system Administration ensures that these systems are properly configured, kept up to date, secure and fulfills the needs of the organisation. The initial choices of systems are critical and will have impact on the organisation for years to come.

I provide the following services:

  • System Design
  • System Configuration to match the design
  • System Maintenance and Monitoring
  • System Security
  • Network design
  • Network Maintenance and Monitoring
  • Network Security
  • Virtualisation
  • Data Storage
    • NAS/SAN
    • Redundancy
    • Backup
  • DNS

I have experience with the following products:

Web hosting and integration

hosting

An online presence is essential for your business in the 21st century. Many people have the perception that social media is all they need to provide an online presence. It is however very difficult to provide comprehensive information about your business and products using social media. To do this you need a well designed, and reliable website.

I can provide the following services:

  • Consult on the appropriate hosting for your organisation
    • Shared web hosting - setup and management
    • Dedicated hosting - setup and management
    • Cloud based hosting - setup and management at various providers
    • On premises hosting - apache or nginx (intranet hosting)
  • Consult on the appropriate platform for your website: I am familiar with, and use the platforms below
    • Wordpress and Managed Wordpress - Wordpress is the most popular platform at the moment
    • Ghost - Ghost is a very fast easy to use platform based on node.js
    • Hugo - Hugo generates static websites and can be hosted almost anywhere.
  • Configure your hosting and website platform

I also offer turnkey domain registration and hosting at MenuSiS Technologies Shop or alternative site MenuSiS Technologies Secure Server. If you are interested in doing your own cloud based hosting I recommend Vultr (referral link). If you are unable to, or do not want to do it on your own please contact me for assistance via e-mail.