Forcing Function

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About the firm

Forcing Function provides systems engineering consulting focused on complex system specification, design, integration, and management. It delivers services in signal processing, communications and networking, machine learning, energy harvesting, and sensor integration, with applied work in transportation infrastructure and research and development programs.

Firm type
Telecom / RF Engineering · Software Engineering · Simulation Engineering

Capabilities

Systems Engineering

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Specification, design, integration, and management support for complex technical programs.

  • Complex system specification
  • System architecture and design
  • System integration services
  • Technical program management

Signal Processing

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Data analysis and processing of numerical, audio, and video datasets including sensor fusion.

  • Numeric data analysis
  • Audio and video data processing
  • Sensor fusion

Communication and Networking

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Wired and wireless communication architecture development, IP networks, IoT wireless technologies, and satellite communication links.

  • Wired and wireless systems
  • IP network design
  • IoT wireless integration
  • Satellite communication systems

Machine Learning

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Acoustic analysis and pattern recognition models engineered for deployment in resource-constrained embedded systems.

Energy Harvesting

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Integration of self-powered technologies to enable autonomous industrial internet-of-things (IoT) ecosystems.

Sensor Integration

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Deployment of specialized sensor configurations featuring ruggedized, low-power, and low-clearance hardware components.

  • Ruggedized sensor hardware
  • Low-power hardware design
  • low-clearance sensor integration

Transportation Systems Engineering

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On-board and vehicle-to-shore communications and controls engineering with specialized field support.

  • Vehicle-to-shore infrastructure
  • System requirements specification
  • API and ICD definition
  • Detailed system design
  • System validation and commissioning
  • NMS, CSS, and CMS configuration
  • Specialist field support

Research and Development

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Applied research initiatives focused on condition monitoring solutions and subsurface analysis technologies.

  • Traction motor condition monitoring
  • Drone-mounted GPR-on-a-chip subsurface analysis

Industries

Transportation · Agriculture

Projects