Creative Engineering Concepts, Inc. is a small business founded in September 1990. The founders have worked together as a research and development team for over fifteen years in the development of real-time signal processing systems for Government and industry. CECI's areas of expertise include:
Creative Engineering Concepts, Inc. has a concentrtion in the fields of signal processing and pattern recognition. We develop systems that collect sensor signals and perform the necessary analog signal conditioning prior to digitizing and digital signal processing. CECI also manufactures high performance digitizers for RF applications and high resolution low frequency digitizers where precision and high dynamic range are required. Real time signal processing is an expertise that is central to our system development capability. We are skilled and innovative in algorithm development, electronic design and manufacturing, and software implementation into fully integrated computer systems. CECI is expert in such fields as acoustic array processing and image processing. We have developed a number of systems that perform automatic audio (music) identification and video object recognition. Other areas include instrumentation and control, and high speed telemetry. CECI also has extensive experience in vibration analysis and machine diagnostics. These diagnostics typically search for improper resonances in bearings, gears, and turbines in a variety of machines. We are the developers and patent holders of the passive broadcast recognition technology deployed throughout the United States and in other countries by Broadcast Data Systems. Using a nationwide computer network, BDS monitors radio and TV stations in over 1000 markets in real time on a 24 hour basis. Each remote monitor searches continuously on as many as 15 radio and TV stations for approximately 25,000 patterns using sophisticated DSP and pattern recognition techniques. When the signature of an advertisement, song, or other program material is recognized, the monitor records the time, date, and station where it was detected. CECI continues to support technology improvements and provide hardware for this signal recognition network. Creative Engineering Concepts' facility is located in the in the City of Fairfax, Virginia. We are close to Government agencies in the Washington, D. C. area as well as George Mason University. The company is equipped with high performance computers equipped with audio and video acquisition and special purpose digital signal processing boards. CECI also maintains a complete electronic development capability and laboratory for prototype development, manufacturing, and system integration. We also have a broad range of software for scientific analysis, signal processing, image processing, and tools for development of hardware and software systems. CECI has a small electronics laboratory that is suitable for prototype development, product assembly, and small system integration. We have also developed relationships with contract manufacturers and suppliers that allow us to produce and deliver our products in significant volume. |