PAWS - Portable All-terrain Wireless System
The BBC report on a product, developed by former amateur radio company Wood & Douglas, that allows rescue dogs to relay real-time video and audio back to their handlers.
Wood & Douglas Ltd gets its name from the original partnership between Alan Wood and John Douglas. Both were employed in government service, John as a draughtsman and Alan as a physicist, when they began trading as a design consultancy in March 1977. Initially they provided PCB design and manufacture on a sub-contract basis.
By 1979 the Company had leaped ahead, with designer Mike Telkman G8DCA, a work colleague and fellow radio-amateur, joining the business. Mike designed a range of products to be sold by mail order, aimed at the radio amateur hobbyist market. In 1981 John Douglas resigned with Alan becoming the first full-time employee of Wood & Douglas, followed by Mike in July 1983.
The supply of "kit of parts" to radio amateurs grew into providing complex, high quality RF design solutions to commercial customers.
They now specialise in wireless broadcast technology,
Watch the BBC news video ''Dogcam' aids search-and-rescue' at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16408901
Basingstoke Gazette - Wood & Douglas on the right wavelength
http://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/business/9420913.
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Wood and Douglas
http://www.woodanddouglas.co.uk/
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