GRANT M. SMITH
Grant M. Smith has been in the test and measurement industry for 40+ years, starting as a technician in 1980 and working his way up as an application engineer, where he put together hundreds of solutions for companies like NASA, Ford Motor Company, and many more. He eventually founded the North American division of Dewetron, running it for 20 years until he retired in 2017. He has a broad range of experience with DAQ applications across the automotive, aerospace, power, and industrial sectors. Today, Grant applies his application knowledge and experience writing about data acquisition technology for industry leader Dewesoft, and contributing to major industry publications.
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Technical Milestones
In the 1990s, Grant wrote software for Ford Motor company that allowed them to remotely control all of their Graphtec DAQ systems, resulting in much greater efficiency for the car maker. This software was rolled out to hundreds of engineers worldwide.
In 2000, he developed the DAQ subsystem tribo-electric testing system that was used by NASA's Kennedy Space Center to test the electrostatic effects on a variety of materials, crucial to preventing ESD (electro-static discharge) in an oxygen-rich environment. He wrote the acquisition and analysis software and hosted it on an off-the-shelf DAQ system.
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Grant was one of the three inventors of the first version of DewesoftX software, winning a technology innovation award from Slovenia in 2000. Colleagues Jure Knez, Grant M. Smith and Gerald Zotzeck received the award.
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Grant created an integrated system for the cyclical testing of supermarket refrigerated cases for a major manufacturer in California, writing the software and integrating the precision temperature measurement hardware.
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Grant invented the first PC-based battery-powered instrument that could run without external power indefinitely, using a hot-swap Lithium Ion battery scheme. His invention of the DA-130 with its SideHand battery system was awarded Product Of The Year by NASA Tech Briefs in 2006. This technology is still in use today by Dewetron, Dewesoft and other companies.
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Technical articles written for the Dewesoft website:
https://dewesoft.com/author/grant-maloy-smith
Please contact him at grant.smith@dewesoft.com
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Title | Publication | Date | Author(s) | Hyperlink |
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Time for an Evolutionary Leap in Testing | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings | 10/01/2022 | Grant M. Smith | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/666966 |
Correlating Power Measurements with Electromotor Vibration Data | Automotive Testing Technology International | 05/01/2022 | Grant M. Smith | https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=u-_UHYkAAAAJ&citation_for_view=u-_UHYkAAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC |
New Hybrid ADC Technology Solves Tough Measuring Challenges | Electronics World Magazine | 03/03/2022 | Grant M. Smith | https://www.electronicsworld.co.uk/new-hybrid-adc-technology-solves-tough-measuring-challenges/33618/ |
Launching Rockets Securely by Converging IT, OT and High-speed DAQ | Control Engineering Magazine | 12/15/2021 | Grant M. Smith | https://www.controleng.com/articles/launching-rockets-securely-by-converging-it-ot-and-high-speed-daq/?oly_enc_id=9685B9266656B9S |
Developing Advanced EV Battery Test Solutions | Evaluation Engineering Magazine | 05/12/2021 | Grant M. Smith | https://www.evaluationengineering.com/applications/automotive-test/article/21222396/dewesoft-developing-advanced-ev-battery-test-solutions |
Developing Advanced EV Battery Test Solutions | Electronic Design Magazine | 05/12/2021 | Grant M. Smith | https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/test-measurement/article/21211718/dewesoft-developing-advanced-ev-battery-test-solutions |
Executive Perspectives | NASA Tech Briefs | 03/01/2016 | Grant M. Smith | https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/pub/features/articles/24288 |
Data measurement applications | Aerospace Testing International | 10/01/2011 | Grant M. Smith | https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/7462830/aaaperhaps-the-most-intractable-problem-arises-once-dewetron |
We Want Everything to be Better, Smaller, Faster | Aerospace Testing International | 09/01/2010 | Grant M. Smith | https://vdocuments.site/aerospace-testing-international-magazine-september-2010-tv.html?page=63 |
Full-Power Computers Run Indefinitely on Hot-Swappable Lithium-Ion Batteries | NASA Tech Briefs | 12/01/2004 | Grant M. Smith | https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/tb/pub/techbriefs/electronics-and-computers/323 |
Networkable Telemetry Data Recorders Based on Cots Computer Technology | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings | 10/01/2002 | Grant M. Smith | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/607548 |
A New Approach to Measurements: The PC Instrument | Sound and Vibration Magazine 2002, Vol 36, Num 5, pp 16-20 | 06/01/2002 | Grant M. Smith, Jure Knez, Matija Tuma | http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=13712188 |
Networkable Telemetry Data Recorders Based on Cots Computer Technology | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings | 02/21/2002 | Grant M. Smith | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/607548 |
Chart Recorders Evolve Into Data Management Systems | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings | 10/01/1991 | Grant M. Smith | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/613053 |
The Need for Standardized Performance Characteristics for Digital Strip Chart Recorders | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings | 10/01/1988 | Grant M. Smith and Dave Gaskill | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/615243 |
Telemetry Chart Recording Via Direct Digital Link | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings | 10/01/1988 | Grant M. Smith and James Alexander | https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/615242 |