Service civilian and military airports and aerodromes in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Develop, manufacture and support a diverse portfolio of products, systems, and solutions for operation in demanding environments
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Dynamic and versatile full turnkey telecommunications solutions.
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A flexible best-fit electronic manufacturing strategy – from ‘labour only’ to complete product life cycle support and value add services
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Resolve customer problems by identifying appropriate technologies, incubating new concepts and developing innovative products and solutions
Learn MoreMeet Baleka – she can’t speak like her namesake in Parliament, but she sure can jump. Baleka – from the Xhosa word for “running” – is a biped (two-legged robot) designed by a team of UCT engineering students to solve the motion problem of acceleration. Dr Amir Patel, team leader and senior lecturer in Mechatronics,…
The world’s first fully permitted 3D-printed home for low-income and underserviced communities was revealed in Austin, Texas at the annual SXSW conference this year. The result of a partnership between Icon, a pioneering building technology provider, and New Story, a low-cost housing non-profit organisation, is a stylish tiny house measuring 60 square metres. It was…
The latest Global Innovation Index 2018 shows typically mixed results for South Africa and other BRICS countries, both in overall innovation rankings and innovation efficiency (innovation outputs vs. inputs): Country/Economy Rank Efficiency Ratio Rank China 17 0.92 …
South Africa featured prominently in the fourth AppsAfrica Innovation Awards, held in Cape Town on 10 November 2018. Hosts and founders of the annual awards programme, tech advisory service AppsAfrica.com, said the 2018 edition attracted over 300 entries from more than 39 countries across the continent. Winners were crowned across 14 categories and invited to…
The new paradigm in solar water heating. The only solar solution that is able to heat a standard geyser without modifying the existing geyser plumbing installation.
Market need Telecoms base transceiver stations (BTSs) in South Africa and on the continent have been the target of theft and vandalism for many years, with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other service providers all feeling the effects equally. BTSs are broken into regularly, mainly to steal backup batteries and copper – or in some…
Solar, for all its promise as a source of abundant and cheap energy, has a problem – there is still no cost-effective and efficient way to store it. In terms of output and efficiency, solar batteries are still in their infancy – ranging in size from wall-mountable units the size of microwaves (storing 1 kilowatt…
As we stand at the beginning of another year, it’s awe-inspiring to think that 2019 holds the promise of more innovation than any year before it – that is if the pace of innovation keeps accelerating, as it has been for decades. But what will those innovations be? It’s tempting for the loud and immersive…
