Author Archives: Walt Maclay

About Walt Maclay

President of Voler Systems, one of the premier electronic design companies in Silicon Valley. We focus on the design of IoT and wearable devices. We are experienced with sensors, wireless communication, medical devices, low power circuits, motion control, and FPGA design.

Design Trends That are Shaping the Wearable Technology Landscape

Wearable technology has come a long way since its first introduction. The earliest wearables appeared in the 1970s as wrist calculators and music players. However, the last decade saw widespread […]

What makes a great project manager?

by Walt Maclay, President of Voler Systems, a leading provider for electronic design and embedded firmware. A great project manager is able to work with internal resources, vendors, and ultimately […]

Long range low power wireless communication for IoT

With wide-scale IoT solutions being implemented, we are seeing an emerging set of new long-range low-power wireless technologies being developed. The focus of much IoT innovation is on low power […]

Trends in Wearable Medical Devices

Voler Systems develops wearable medical devices

Wearable fitness devices are influencing today’s medical devices that target clinical and everyday applications. Some of the innovation involves new modalities of measurement: for example an iPhone that analyzes your […]

Recent sensor video by Past PATCA President, Walt Maclay

In this short video Walt Maclay describes a couple applications using sensors. FitBit wearable exercise and activity tracker Catheter Sterilizer from PuraCath Tricorder from Scanadu A Digital Tracking System for […]

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