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Founded in 1956, Roke Manor Research Limited is a UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 company based at Roke Manor
Roke Manor

Roke Manor is the name of the 17th century manor house approximately 2km north-west of Romsey in Hampshire, England. The house and grounds are currently owned by Siemens AG company Roke Manor Research Limited....
 in Romsey
Romsey

Romsey is a small market town in the county of Hampshire, England.It is 8 miles northwest of Southampton and 11 miles south-west of Winchester....
, Hampshire
Hampshire

Hampshire , sometimes historically Southamptonshire, Hamptonshire, , or the County of Southampton, is a Counties of England on the south coast of England....
. It is a contract research and development business for communications
Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the assisted Transmission of Signal over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, Drum , Semaphore line, flag signals or heliograph....
, networks
Telecommunications network

A telecommunications network is a wiktionary:Network of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes....
, and electronic
Electronics

Electronics refers to the flow of charge through nonmetal electrical conductor , whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal electrical conductor....
 sensors. In addition to supporting Siemens AG
Siemens AG

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate . Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany....
, work is also conducted in both the public and private sectors.








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Founded in 1956, Roke Manor Research Limited is a UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 company based at Roke Manor
Roke Manor

Roke Manor is the name of the 17th century manor house approximately 2km north-west of Romsey in Hampshire, England. The house and grounds are currently owned by Siemens AG company Roke Manor Research Limited....
 in Romsey
Romsey

Romsey is a small market town in the county of Hampshire, England.It is 8 miles northwest of Southampton and 11 miles south-west of Winchester....
, Hampshire
Hampshire

Hampshire , sometimes historically Southamptonshire, Hamptonshire, , or the County of Southampton, is a Counties of England on the south coast of England....
. It is a contract research and development business for communications
Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the assisted Transmission of Signal over a distance for the purpose of communication. In earlier times, this may have involved the use of smoke signals, Drum , Semaphore line, flag signals or heliograph....
, networks
Telecommunications network

A telecommunications network is a wiktionary:Network of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes....
, and electronic
Electronics

Electronics refers to the flow of charge through nonmetal electrical conductor , whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal electrical conductor....
 sensors. In addition to supporting Siemens AG
Siemens AG

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate . Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany....
, work is also conducted in both the public and private sectors.

Company History

  • 1956 - Founded as Plessey Research Roke Manor Limited by the Plessey
    Plessey

    The Plessey Company plc was a United Kingdom-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. It originated in 1917, growing and diversifying into electronics....
     company. The first managing director was Harold J. Finden, an electrical engineer at Plessey
    Plessey

    The Plessey Company plc was a United Kingdom-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company. It originated in 1917, growing and diversifying into electronics....
    .
  • 1990 - Passed to GEC
    GEC

    The three-letter acronym GEC may mean* Goa Engineering College, Goa,India* Government Engineering College, Thrissur* Gwalior Engineering College, Gwalior,India...
    -Siemens AG
    Siemens AG

    Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate . Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany....
     in a joint takeover.
  • 1991 - Became wholly owned by Siemens AG
    Siemens AG

    Siemens Aktiengesellschaft is Europe's largest engineering Conglomerate . Siemens' international headquarters are located in Berlin and Munich, Germany....
     when GEC
    GEC

    The three-letter acronym GEC may mean* Goa Engineering College, Goa,India* Government Engineering College, Thrissur* Gwalior Engineering College, Gwalior,India...
     sold their 50% shareholding to Siemens Plessey Electronic Systems.


Technology

  • 1960 - Working prototype memory systems developed for the then supercomputer
    Supercomputer

    A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation , and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research....
    , Atlas
    Atlas Computer (Manchester)

    The Atlas Computer of the Victoria University of Manchester, England, became operational in 1962, as a joint development between the University, Ferranti and Plessey....
    .
  • 1975 - Designed and developed the World's first monolithic Gallium Arsenide microwave circuit.
  • 1995 - Work began on the Hostile Artillery LOcation system (HALO), an acoustic locator of gun
    GUN

    Gun is a Revisionist Western-themed video game developed by Neversoft. It was published by Activision for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2....
    s and mortars
    Mortar (weapon)

    A mortar is a Muzzleloader indirect fire weapon that fires shell at low velocities, short ranges, and high-arcing Ballistics trajectories. It typically has a barrel length less than 15 times its caliber....
    . HALO was developed to monitor ceasefire
    Ceasefire

    A ceasefire is a temporary stoppage of any armed conflict, where each side of the conflict agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions....
     violations in Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia

    File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
    , and is in use with the British Army
    British Army

    The British Army is the Army branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdoms of Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707....
     and other nations.
  • 2000 - Won the for work on land mine
    Land mine

    A land mine is an explosive device designed to be placed on or in the ground to explode when triggered by an operator or the proximity of a vehicle, person, or animal....
     clearance.
  • 2001 - Developed the Hawk-Eye
    Hawk-Eye

    Hawk-Eye is a computer system used in cricket, tennis and other sports to visually track the path of the ball and display a record of its actual path as graphic image....
     vision based ball tracking system.


Products

  • Vigilance - a wide area multilateration
    Multilateration

    Multilateration, also known as hyperbolic positioning, is the process of locating an object by accurately computing the time difference of arrival of a signal emitted from the object to three or more receivers....
     system for tracking aircraft.
  • Miniature Radar Altimeters (MRA) - a range of MRA products primarily designed for use on Airborne Targets and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
    Unmanned aerial vehicle

    File:MQ-9 Reaper in flight .jpgAn unmanned aerial vehicle is an unpiloted aircraft. UAVs come in two varieties: some are controlled from a remote location, and others fly autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans using more complex dynamic automation systems....
     (UAVs).
  • Epsilon - a software tool designed to predict the Radar Cross Section
    Radar cross section

    Radar cross section is a measure of how detectable an object is with a radar. When radar waves are beamed at a target, only a certain amount is reflected back....
     (RCS) of a target directly from its geometrical description.


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