Slater Electronic Services
17 Winterslow Road, Porton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 0LW
( +44 (0) 1980 610 544 e-mail: Jim@SlaterElectronics.com FAX: +44 (0) 1980 590 611
Slater Electronic Services, SES, is a high-tech consultancy company consisting of a principal consultant plus four occasional associates, with access to a small design and manufacturing unit which has long experience of making electronic equipment in modest quantities.
SES specialises in the management of research projects, the submission of proposals for research funding to grant making bodies, and the writing and editing of research reports. Training courses and presentations are also arranged, dealing with new technologies.
The principal spent many years as a broadcasting engineer for BBC and the UK IBA, working on transmitters, studios, data broadcasting, teletext, and a wide range of other topics, latterly taking responsibility for research projects in the telecommunications field, including a digital communications project aimed at helping elderly and visually impaired people to watch television - AUDETEL. He wrote the submissions to the European Commission and the technical documentation, and then managed the research project. SES completed the project management of a successful three year, ECU 2.8 million, European Commission funded project relating to smart-cards and terminals that use them, including radio frequency links between cards and terminals, known as SATURN.
SES offers to manage other projects, the advantage to those running the project being that it takes the administrative load off their shoulders, whilst costing very little, since SES costs can often be recovered from the overall research funding.
Jim Slater has been investigating new developments in technology for many years, and has given hundreds of presentations to Universities and learned society groups in the UK and abroad. He also writes for technical magazines, specialising in explaining complex technical subjects in terms which can be understood by non-specialists. His three books to date (another one has been commissioned) on satellite broadcasting, cable television, and HDTV, have done well in the marketplace. Jim edited the National Electronics Review for some years, and is currently Managing Editor of Image Technology and Cinema Technology, the monthly journals of the BKSTS, the Moving Image Society.
He has acted as consultant to the European DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) Project in Geneva, where he wrote and edited many of their technical publications on digital television systems.
He has also been employed as a consultant to the UK Digital Television Group since its inception, and was responsible for the technical editing of the proposed specification for the UK Digital Terrestrial Television system, a consultation document entitled ‘Requirements for Interoperability’, colloquially known as ‘The D-Book’.
Other tasks which SES has recently completed or is currently undertaking include:
l Contributing to a bid for a cable TV system in Singapore.
l Providing SMATV (Satellite TV via small cable systems) training for technicians and installers.
l Assessing TIDE technical annexes for the European Commission.
l Preparing and delivering a four day digital training course for engineers at Channel Four Television.
l Acted as European Commission rapporteur,
compiling the workplan for the Fourth Framework research
programme.
l Preparing and delivering lectures for TV students at Media Production Facilities, London.
l Representing UK on IEC standards committees
concerned with video audio and data recording in
France, Netherlands, Singapore, Romania, South Africa.
l Representing UK on IEC standards committees
concerned with technical vocabulary and terminology in
France, the United States, and South Africa.
l Researched and produced a feasibility study
on the practicability of replacing the existing cassette-
based ‘talking book’ services by broadband data transmissions direct
to the homes of visually impaired
viewers.
l Provided consultancy to Texas Instruments on ‘language engineering’ research.
l Provided consultancy to UK cable TV company on the carriage of digital signals.
l Provided consultancy services to the FORTH research institute, Crete, Greece.
l Provided technical editorial and design services to NTL, Winchester.
l Presented lecture on ‘European Research
- The Practicalities’ to a colloquium at the University of
Coventry.
l SES represents ‘SENDIT’, a US
Company transmitting magazines and other material in the form of
teletext data, and is working with UK text broadcasters.
l SES provides editorial services to the
BKSTS, The Moving Image Society, editing its monthly
journals and providing a technical enquiry service.
l SES provided technical consultancy services
to the DVB Project (Digital Video Broadcasting) in
Geneva.
l Prepared / delivered digital and satellite
TV training courses for engineers at Trans World
International.
l SES provides technical consultancy services to the UK DTG (Digital Television Group).
l Providing radio frequency coverage
consultancy services and writing reports and responses to NERA
Report for to Cable Management Ireland.
l SES is currently managing the Audio Description pilot trials for UK DTT broadcaster ONdigital. Liaising with equipment installers, broadcasters, and visually impaired people.
( +44 (0) 1980 610 544 Slater Electronic Services FAX: +44 (0) 1980 590 611