iTest is a quantum leap toward end‑to‑end motor solutions. iTest is a turn-key and modular software and hardware platform for testing physical motors remotely over the Internet. This enables remote customers to experiment with multiple electric motors (e.g. brush and brushless DC, stepper, synchronous and induction AC) under the user-customized loading conditions of their own real-world applications.
Hardware features:
- Load Emulator
- Load Emulator Positioning system
- Modular and Versatile Test Motor Fixture
- Automatic Coupling
Software features:
- Ready-to-use package
- Installed on both server and platform workstations through a single installation process
- Creates user accounts and profiles, controls user access by means of a scheduler, and enables each user to connect to the hardware via Internet and run a customized experiment
- Account Manager
- Scheduler
- Test Site and Public Web Page
Opportunity
Benefits for Users:
- More reliable and accurate information before purchase
- Greater confidence
- Acquisition to the specs
- Reducing risk of wrong selection
Benefits for Manufacturers/ Distributors:
- Customized tests for everyone by everyone
- Niche technology for reaching out to customers
- Marketing platform for promoting new products
- Feedback data from customers
Applications
- Effective Motor Testing
- Active torque from torque motor
- Using reactive torque feedback
- Coupling system
- Unique design
- Corrects slight misalignment
- No Backlash
- Extendable to evaluating
- Motor Drivers
- Transmission Systems
Status
- Seeking interested collaborators for licensing and co‑development
- Patented: US8447554B2: System, method and computer program for remotely testing system components over a network
Donna Shukaris
Donna Shukaris
Innovations & Entrepreneurship Manager
Innovations & Partnerships Office (IPO)
(416) 946-7247
