Expertise

Telemetry

  • Wireless sensors and stimulators.
  • Implantable and head-mounting.
  • Continuous recording of biopotentials.
  • Cohabiting, freely-moving animals.
  • High fidelity recordings.
  • Free software, export to other formats.
  • Automatic event detection.
  • Synchronous video for behavioral studies.

Alignment

  • Particle detector alignment.
  • Particle accelerator alignment.
  • Large geometric monitoring systems.
  • Alignment of highly-reflecting objects.
  • Fiber positioners for astronomy.
  • Calibration of cameras and targets.
  • Instrument manufacture and testing.

Data Acquisition

  • Laboratory systems with dozens of devices.
  • Large systems with thousands of devices.
  • Control and acquisition over TCP/IP.
  • Hardware easy to adapt, open-source.
  • Software runs on all platforms, open-source.
  • Analysis, export, and upload of results.
  • Supports metrology, telemetry, and video.

Consulting and Design

  • Project feasiblity and cost
  • Progress assessments
  • Electronic circuit design
  • Printed circuit board layout
  • Electronic and mechanical assembly
  • Precision measurement with CMM
  • Software design and testing

Experience

In addition to our production and manufacturing work, Open Source Instruments (OSI) also provides design services, expert advice, analysis, and technical support, and consultations related to electrical systems. The founder and president of OSI, Kevan Hashemi, has thirty years of electrical engineering experience. Under his management, the Brandeis University Physics Department manufactured thousands of survey cameras for the ATLAS End-Cap Alignment System that have been operating reliably for the past ten years at CERN. At OSI, Kevan designed our implantable telemetry system fifteen years ago, and the company now ships over five hundred implantable devices per year.

OSI has extensive experience designing accurate and effective instruments for the scientific community, and managing their mass production for large experiments. We designed and built our own data acquisition system, Long-Wire Data Acquisition, which is used by both our high-energy physics and neuroscience customers. Additionally, we have designed and manufactured over twenty unique telemetry devices for neuroscience research. For more information on our design and production work at OSI, please visit our products page.

In the past fifteen years, OSI manufactured hundreds of BCAM's devices for high energy physics experiments. OSI designed and developed the Wire Position Sensor (WPS) for CERN in 2008, and has since supplied dozens of these devices to CERN and NSRL. High energy physics instrumentation remains an important part of the company's business, including the successful award of this Phase I SBIR for contactless alignment in a clean room, which was awarded in partnership with FermiLab.

Shortly after it's inception, the company began a partnership with epilepsy researchers at University College London Institute of Neurology (UCL ION) to collaboratively design a fully-implantable, telemetry system for recording electro­encephalogram (EEG) in mice and rats for epilepsy research. Funding for the collaboration was provided by UCL. Beginning in 2010, after the publication of our first paper describing the system, production and sale of telemetry devices has been responsible for the greater part of the company's revenue. In 2020 we sold five hundred such devices for $500 each to dozens of different medical research groups around the world. The technology is now used in academic and corporate animal research laboratories worldwide. Open Source Instruments is the recipient of three SBIR Phase I grants to date.