About Canary Systems
The Canary?
The ever popular canary found it's origins in the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. The Romans named these islands the "Dog" islands due to the natives breeding of an exceptionally large type of dog, "canary" is a variation of "canis", the latin word for dog. By the early sixteenth Century, canaries became prized as pets in the European word, particularly the adult males, for their near constant melodious song.
With the Industrial Revolution of the 19th Century the thirst for coal to fuel the generation of power became acute. Coal mining became widespread, mining accidents, usually due to explosions of methane gas emitted by the coal, also became commonplace. The canary was found to be highly sensitive to the odorless, colorless gas, and when they stopped singing or collapsed, miners knew it was time to vacate the area.
Why Are We?
Canary Systems was formed in 1997 to likewise provide cost-effective, reliable information systems to a broad range of industries, mining included. We utilize state-of-the-art technology, both hardware and software, and have years of experience with all types of applications. This spans the breadth of system architecture, hardware and software development, database development, and instrumentation. See Projects for a sampling of work we have been involved with.
Who Are We?
Alex Neuwirt, the President of the company, has over 20 years of hardware and software development experience in the field of data acquisition and control. Various products he has designed in whole or part include portable readouts, dataloggers and signal conditioning products, as well as numerous datalogger configuration, data retrieval and reduction, and monitoring software packages utilizing a variety of communication protocols including RS-232, RS-485 and TCP/IP.
Fred Bailey, Vice-President of the company, has over 26 years of Electrical Engineering experience ranging from aerospace, telecommunications, power supply design, and instrumentation for a variety of industries. His specialty is microcontroller applications and communication circuits.
Dmitry Shapovalov, Chief Software Technology Officer of the company, has been developing complex database systems for over 15 years. His specialties include Microsoft, Oracle, Interbase and Firebird SQL Servers, COM/DCOM development, ActiveX development, and .NET Web Service technologies.
Paul Breneman has over 20 years of software design experience, particularly in the area of remote communication and control. His experience spans various communication protocols including direct serial, modem, Internet client/server systems using Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP as well as database development with InterBase SQL Server (NT).
Roger Chamberlin has over 20 years experience in electronics testing and engineering development including 15 years in plasma cutting power supplies. Roger is also a calibration expert from the US Air Force.
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