Technologies

What the lab works on.

Six areas. Open one to see the diagram, the applications and the projects attached to it.

Concept

HOLK Secure

HOLK Secure is the laboratory track for privacy-first communication. The work looks at how a message can stay protected from the device that sends it to the device that receives it, and how a handset can keep local data under the owner's control.

Open HOLK Secure

The sending device prepares the message on the device.

Concept

HOLK Networks

HOLK Networks studies how devices can reach each other when ordinary internet service is missing, congested or not trusted. The model is a private mesh: short radio hops between nodes, with solar power as one way to keep a node running away from the mains.

Open HOLK Networks

A device hands a message to the nearest node.

In development

HOLK Manufacturing

HOLK Manufacturing is the engineering behind making physical parts on more than one machine. A digital model is prepared, placed in a queue, sent to a printer, checked and then handed on for delivery. The printers do not have to stand in the same room.

Open HOLK Manufacturing

The job starts as a model and a set of choices.

In development

HOLK Devices

HOLK Devices covers the electronics that sit between a machine and a platform. The active project is HOLK TECH Connect, a gateway that lets a printer owner link a machine without placing workshop credentials on a public page.

Open HOLK Devices

A small housing and local controls. The photo is a concept illustration.

Concept

HOLK Intelligence

HOLK Intelligence is the name for software that watches a process and prepares a decision for a person. The aim is assistance: summarise a queue, point at an exception, and leave the action with an operator.

Open HOLK Intelligence

DemonstrationObserve

Sample event

DemonstrationInterpret

Grouped, not measured

DemonstrationSuggest

A person can ignore it

DemonstrationDecide

No automatic command

In development

HOLK Ventures

HOLK Ventures is where a technology leaves the bench and becomes a service other people can use. The venture in progress is RentA3DPrinter, a marketplace that connects people who need a part with independent owners of 3D printers.

Open HOLK Ventures

A customer provides a 3D model.