News Archive
June 2007
BSI Audit Success
Once again Zircon Software has succesfully passed the regular BSI audit of the ISO 9001:2000(TickIT) accredited quality system with no nonconformities being identified.
April 2007
Audit Success
Zircon was recently audited by one of our clients for design and development of safety critical software. Zircon successfully passed the audit with the auditor commenting:
"Zircon are capable of undertaking safety critical design work either on a time and materials basis or a fixed price contract. There is a competence and flexible approach within the organisation that would allow a close working relationship, joint planning and selection of appropriate design tools and a focus on safety requirements."
March 2007
Zircon is Recruiting
Zircon is looking for a Graduate Software Engineer to join our exisiting team of engineers. This position has now been filled.
March 2007
Handheld Device Type Approval
Zircon has been awarded a contract by the Vehicle & Operator Services Agency (VOSA) to carry out Type Approval Testing of Handheld Devices that will be introduced as part of the enhancement of the MOT Computerisation project.
March 2007
Performance Monitoring
Zircon has started work on an application to enable performance monitoring of the management of roads in the M25 sphere. Information will be retrieved from a variety of sources and collated to provide an indication of problems and improvements.
February 2007
Round Trip Enigineering
Zircon has been awarded a contract to investigate the process of automatically generating test script code from UML designs. Zircon will also be examining the feasibility of taking existing test scripts and reverse engineering them to produce UML designs as part of a complete round trip engineering process.
February 2007
Rail Contracts
Zircon is once again assisting a long standing client in upgrading its rail system products. In this instance, Zircon will be working on 3 separate projects 1. to carry out Verification & Validation activities on an upgrade to an exising product, 2. writing a data generation tool for the upgrade and 3. developing an application to manipulate timetable data.
February 2007
Integrated Data for Regional Control Centres
Early 2007 has been a busy time for Zircon Software as we have received yet another order, this time to provide a web based application to provide an integrated traffic data display within the Regional Control Centres in England
January 2007
Feasibility Investigations
Zircon has completed some investigation work for our client into the suitability of Voice over IP (VoIP) technologies for inclusion in a train radio network training simulator to allow train drivers to receive classroom training in the operation of the radio system.
December 2006
Traffic Data Formatting Tool
Zircon is undertaking a development project to provide a software tool to take traffic flow data at individual measurement locations, where a location covers both directions at that point along the road, and reformat it for analysis in an Excel Spreadsheet.
November 2006
Transport Innovations
Zircon succesfully exhibited at the Transport Innovations show at the NEC in early November. Several demonstration travel information applications were shown on the stand which generated interest from a number of organisations.
October 2006
Kiosk for Northern Ireland
Following on from Zircon Software's work on the Highways Agency Information Point (HAIP) Zircon has developed a similar kisok application for the Northern Ireland Traffic Watch service.
Information is collected from the Northern Ireland UTMC (Urban Traffic Management & Control) Common Database and displayed on a touchscreen map based user interface.
October 2006
Information to the Point
Brian Hunt successfully gave his presentation on Zircon's work on the Highways Agency Information Point (HAIP) at the ITS World Congress. A pdf copy of his paper, Information to the Point, can be found by clicking on the link. Zircon also had a stand at the event which proved to be a great success.
September 2006
Up to Requirements
Zircon is assisting our client in analysing and confirming the Requirements for a new sub-system to provide the next generation of rail control. Once the requirements have been fully analysed Zircon will be assisting in conducting System Architecture Design activities to define the system interfaces and provide evidence for the system safety case.
Zircon will also be helping generate the documents to be used in the tender process to select a system developer.
September 2006
Project Management Excellence
Zircon is now a corporate member of the Association for Project Management. Membership will provide Zircon project managers with access to the latest thinking in project management best practice and training, enabling us to provide consultancy services to reduce client risk and ensure development projects are delivered on time and to budget.
July 2006
Winning Team
Zircon is pleased to announce the award of a Framework Contract from the DfT to Hyder Consulting for the provision of project support services to the Transport Direct project. Zircon is delighted to be included in the Hyder team to provide software engineering support services.
July 2006
CCTV Certification Package
Zircon has successfully completed the development of a CCTV Certification application to allow CCTV equipment from a variety of manufacturers to be checked against new second generation Highways Agency standards.
July 2006
Website Revamped
Our website has received a facelift to reflect recent changes within the company and to provide more information about our services and expertise.