Consulting and Research & Development of Engineering Solutions
ATB Advanced Engineering R&D, LLC designs, develops, and delivers prototype solutions for complex engineering problems including embedded systems, autonomous systems, applied AI, and connected IoT products to meet clients' requirements. Furthermore, ATB provide consulting services for clients as needed. It mainly focuses on solving challenging complex engineering problems.
Work With Us| Legal Name | ATB Advanced Engineering R&D LLC |
| Business Type | Limited Liability Company (LLC) |
| Headquarters | Clarkrange, Tennessee |
| Industry / Sector | Engineering R&D and Consulting Services |
| Core Focus | Research & Development of Advanced and Affordable Engineering Solutions |
| Key Markets | Energy · Industry · Autonomous Systems · IoT / Consumer |
| Website | atb-randd.com |
| Contact | info@atb-randd.com |
ATB Advanced Engineering R&D LLC is an engineering research and development firm that designs, prototypes, and delivers embedded systems, autonomous systems, applied AI, and connected IoT products. The company partners with clients to turn complex technical challenges into validated, deployable solutions. ATB has been an affordable vehicle for helping startup companies.
ATB is led by a team of individuals that all hold a PhD degree in engineering. Their combined R&D experience exceeds 76 years. Its members led the development of solutions to over 113 industrial projects. The team's R&D experience enables them to provide solutions to a variety of potential engineering problems.
To develop validated, field-ready solutions to complex engineering problems.
To be recognized as a leader in providing affordable novel solutions to engineering problems. Help young and non-technical-savvy innovators accomplish their dream at an affordable cost. Provide expert advices to various industries.
Hardware/software prototyping from concept to validated Proof of Concept.
Bringing hardware, firmware, cloud, and security layers into the full project prototype solution.
Includes hardware/software testing for functionality and security.
Production-grade firmware with documentation, test coverage, and handoff-ready code. Hardware design including MCU selection, PCB layout, etc. to work with customers' requirements.
Provides professional guidance regarding the requirements and potential solutions of customer projects.
Challenge: Monitoring and controlling several individual loads at one site traditionally requires a separate meter per load, adding cost and complexity.
Solution: Instead of using a smart meter for each load, multiple loads can be served by a single smart device using multiplexing technology.
Result: Working multi-load smart meter that can be remotely controlled via a server. This lead to an economical solution for monitoring and controlling multiple consumer loads.
Challenge: Affordable real-time blood alcohol monitoring from anywhere.
Solution: Wrist worn breathalyzer with low-power embedded firmware, BLE connectivity, and a companion app.
Result: Tested wearable product carried from concept through working app integration.
Challenge: Portable illicit drug manufacturing setups are difficult to detect. Hotels and short-term rental operators lack reliable, automated ways to detect prohibited smoking.
Solution: A multi-hazard detection system that uses sensor fusion to detect illicit drugs and prohibited smoking.
Result: Successfully deployed across hospitality and property use cases, giving operators automated alerts.
Challenge: Correctional facilities need a secure way for inmates to stay connected with family without having access to the internet.
Solution: A video conferencing platform was designed and developed to allow inmates to communicate with families without risk of accessing internet.
Result: Deployed video communication system with a companion mobile app.
Challenge: Manually testing equipment in a substation is expensive and requires skilled personnel.
Solution: Autonomous inspection robot with navigation, sensor fusion, and obstacle avoidance without any additional infrastructure installed in the substation.
Result: Successfully field-tested and validated at a live substation.
Challenge: Traditional heated blankets rely on embedded heating wires, which can pose a hazard for pets and humans. Furthermore, the blanket will not be uniformly heated.
Solution: A safe prototype pet-friendly blanket warmed by circulated hot air, with dual-sensor temperature control and a quiet inlet.
Result: Field-tested prototype maintaining safe, consistent temperature without exposing pets to current carrying heating elements.
Challenge: Coaches need objective, per-player data on tackling performance which uses impact energy, contact location on the training dummy, and wrap success during practice.
Solution: An instrumented tackle dummy that senses impact energy, contact distribution, and wrap success, tagging each hit to a player via RFID and syncing to a server for replay and review was designed and developed.
Result: Developed and tested a prototype instrumented tackle dummy and a wireless performance data recording system.
Challenge: Manually dip-coating chairs in paint is slow, inconsistent, and not suitable for production scale.
Solution: Designed an automated system for dipping chairs in paint with no human intervention.
Result: Delivered a complete automated system design.
Challenge: Municipal traffic infrastructure needs real-time analysis without costly bandwidth-heavy video streaming.
Solution: Developed an edge-computing inference platform for AI based real-time traffic assessment.
Result: Delivered a prototype computing and camera platform.
Challenge: After a hurricane or major storm, assessing road debris and damage across a wide area is slow when done manually.
Solution: Used image processing and AI based inference to automatically identify the location of debris and damage on roadways from captured images.
Result: Delivered a working detection prototype software tool for debris localization.
Challenge: Measuring vein diameter for stent sizing traditionally depends on manual estimation, affecting consistency and accuracy.
Solution: An image-processing tool where the user selects a region of interest and the software quickly and accurately calculates vein diameter on either side of a vein restriction.
Result: Delivered a working solution for stent sizing.
Challenge: Surgical teams monitoring Activated Clotting Time (ACT) machine readings during surgical procedures must be read by a human typically away from the surgeon. This can present a unnecessary time delay for the surgery.
Solution: An intraoperative assistive tool that captures ACT machine readings and converts them into real-time vocal readouts.
Result: A system was developed to provide automatic vocal readings of the ACT machine that can be heard in real time by the surgeon without human intervention nor delay.
Challenge: Users need real-time notification when separated from tagged personal belongings.
Solution: A standalone wireless based proximity alert system is needed that does not require apps nor smart phones.
Result: An affordable system was developed and is currently available for purchase at several online stores.
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Challenge: Existing smart switches either require full electrical rewiring or fail to preserve the tactile, physical toggle action users expect from a standard light switch.
Solution: Developed a patent-pending smart switch that mechanically drives the physical toggle to the correct position when controlled remotely, fitting inside a standard junction box, with local control via app, self-hosted server, or browser, and remote control via web, app, or voice assistant.
Result: Successfully Completed development and testing phases. We are currently looking for investors to take this to market.
Brandon England is the founder and CTO of ATB Advanced Engineering R&D, LLC. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His doctoral and post-doctoral research spans electronic design, software development, signal processing, sensor data fusion, autonomous system design, robotics, and smart grid stability.
Prior to founding ATB, Brandon served as a Research Associate at Tennessee Tech University and as a part-time Design Engineer at both PSI Cookeville and Eagle Engineering. He has led over a dozen engineering projects from concept through field deployment, spanning wearable devices, autonomous robots, AI vision platforms, and commercial IoT products.
Dr. Tarek Elfouly received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2000 from the University of Beacanson, France. He has 27 years of research and development experience in the areas of machine learning, reinforcement learning, wireless sensing, and autonomous systems control, data-driven intelligence, embedded and networked sensing platforms. Dr. Elfouly has an extensive record of scholarly productivity, including over sixty peer-reviewed publications spanning wireless sensor networks, UAV coordination, and structural health monitoring.
Dr. Alouani has 40 years of Electrical & Computer Engineering research and development. Consulted on various engineering projects for several industries. Recipient of 9 US patents. Published over 230 technical conference and journal publications. Interested in solving challenging engineering problems that involves hardware and software integration and AI applications to practical problems.
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| Company | ATB Advanced Engineering R&D LLC |
| Location | Clarkrange, TN, USA |
| info@atb-randd.com | |
| Website | atb-randd.com |
| Primary Contact | Brandon England, Ph.D., Founder & CTO |