The Nutritional Epidemiology Group at the University of Leeds successfully secured a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grant to investigate the use of mobile phone technology to help people lose weight. The Group contacted Blueberry as it required proven software expertise in mobile technology and database systems to help instigate the study plan.

Blueberry created the ‘My Meal Mate’ Android mobile phone application which provides users with:

• A database of 35,000 common food items, which allows the user to record what was eaten throughout the day in a food diary.
• “Photo mode” where the user can use the phone camera to take a photo of a meal as a reminder for completing the food diary.
• “Favourites” feature to store common meals to make data entry easier.
• Exercise entry to log calories used during the users’ daily exercise.
• Target weight loss settings, with limits to prevent unhealthy rates of weight loss.
• Progress tracking and graphing.
• Upload of diary entries to a reporting website.
• Text message feedback based on the user meeting targets and completing the diary.

In addition to providing software expertise, Blueberry also played a strong technical consultancy role within the Nutritional Epidemiology Group - in particular with selecting the most appropriate phones for the project; generating custom reports and producing a specialised reporting website.

Carillion plc is a FTSE 250 company with annual revenue in the region of £4 billion. Within Carillion's Rail division, its Welding business required an on-line tracking system to manage weld orders from internal and external customers and their allocation to welding teams from different depots.

Blueberry built a job management system to manage these different teams, who are chosen on the basis of availability and proximity to each welding job.

The new on-line Welding Management System for Carillion Rail allows rail welding orders to be collected together into a single database so that web-based worksheets can be produced - facilitating informed scheduling decisions to be made by management.

UK start-up business, IPI Solutions Ltd, was looking for a partner to develop a suite of software products to sell into the aerospace, automotive and medical instrument sectors, which would help reduce the considerable man-power and time required to generate critical compliance documentation.

Blueberry was chosen as IPI’s development partner, and developed “VisualFAIR”, a stand-alone installable Windows program for generating FAI reports for the aerospace sector. VisualFAIR is increasingly being seen by customers as the preferred solution to generating compliance documentation due to its combination of ease-of-use and powerful functionality.

In 2002, Blueberry Consultants recognised the emerging potential of screen recorders for creating software demonstrations, tutorials, and for communicating information about PC problems. The company made the decision to develop a high quality application to address the gap in the market.

Blueberry Software produced a screen recorder product for sale via the internet. In addition to developing the program, Blueberry created the online store and marketed the product.

Chubb Locks Custodial Services (CLCS) required a new management system to support their next generation of sophisticated microprocessor controlled locks. CLCS wanted expert professional software support to tackle the development within the required timescale and invited Blueberry to design and implement the new system.

Blueberry provided a complete control system in .Net based around SQL Server, allowing operators to see the status of all locks and other devices in the system, as well as implementing sophisticated features such as time-based locking and interlocking along with built-in redundancy support.

The HML Group provides a range of property services to the UK commercial and residential sectors, including property management, insurance and ancillary services.

When the Group's mission-critical database started producing errors, Blueberry migrated the backend data storage from Access to Microsoft's SQL Server. The database is now the core of HML's strategy for business growth.

A UK company operating mobile communications services in China needed a system to run all aspects of its business.

Blueberry developed a sophisticated web-based system that overcame significant challenges in distributed database replication.

Pupils TV is a leading supplier of multimedia products and services to the Education sector - from Primary Education through to Secondary Schools, Colleges and CLCs.

The company required a dynamic Windows-based messaging and content display system for the education sector, which would allow pupils to bring together different types of media. In addition to text and graphics, the client required any selection of live video, data feeds and animation to be mixable on screen to create the content and displayed in broadcast quality across a range of devices. Importantly, the system had to offer ease of use, so that children of all ages could intuitively use the software to create eye-catching visuals.

The East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust manages three busy hospitals:  Hertford County in Hertford, the Lister in Stevenage and the Queen Elizabeth II in Welwyn Garden City.

The Trust needed a way to monitor and reduce the incidence of breaches to the 4-hour waiting limit in its A&E departments. This included a new patient monitoring system to render breaches less likely.

Blueberry designed an electronic whiteboard system to manage the patient traffic in A&E Departments and ensure compliance with the national target to treat, discharge, transfer or admit patients within four hours of arrival.

The Klok system displays a visual record of patient activity in real time, instantly showing A&E staff who needs attention, what tests have been ordered, results obtained, where to act to prevent breeches to waiting times, where bottlenecks may be forming, and the allocation of a doctor or clinician to a patient, together with their accompanying medical notes.

Jason Bruges Studio was commissioned by Cambridge Regional College to create an inspirational piece of permanent public artwork within the college’s student entrance. The artwork would serve as a communication tool for students to voice their opinions, messages and emotions.

Blueberry designed and implemented the software required for the project, which included a touch-screen interface for students, a remote access administrative interface, and a control system for the large CCFL screen.

The GSM Association has played a pivotal role in the development of the global wireless industry. The Association required its complex data and analysis service migrated to a new hardware platform without any disruption to its many thousands of users.

Blueberry performed a scope assessment and identified solutions to the various risks before safely moving the GSMA's complex site to an entirely new environment with less than a full weekend's downtime.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) contacted Blueberry because it needed a way of gathering its UK-based information on migrants into an interactive database so that it could manage its operations more efficiently.

Blueberry designed a database system based on MS SQL Server together with client software written in C# .NET. The system allows the IOM in London to correlate detailed information - from flight details to individual migrant needs when they arrive at their destination - so that the organisation can provide appropriate guidance and support in keeping with the protection of migrants' rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration.

Select Research has pioneered the use of 3D body scanning in healthcare for obesity measurement and assessment of health risk. The Body Volume Index (BVI) is an alternative to the Body Mass Index (BMI) as a measure of individual obesity, specifically designed to calculate the risk factors associated with a person's shape, gleaned from where the weight is on their body.

Select Research contacted Blueberry to design the analysis software required for the BVI 3D Body Scanner.

Blueberry designed an application for the BVI body Scanner to be used as the main user interface for the system. The software allows:

• Automatic Measurement definitions for Total Body Volume, BMI, Waist to Hip and Waist Circumference.
• Measurement definitions for Part Body Volume to allow for volume definition of Central/Abdominal Obesity and other body sections.
• Pre-determined volume measurements for baseline analysis against BMI.
• Manual measurement via interactive software tool.
• Customised print output for patients.

The system includes an integral database with full search facilities, which stores scan measurements and images for each patient, as well as the ability to view and compare historical data.

With the BVI system, it is possible to produce a realistic illustration of body shape change over a period of time using a sequence of scans captured from the patient. Additional medical record data, such as height, weight and blood pressure can also be manually added to each scan.

The Body Volume Index is the world’s first dedicated obesity measurement standard which uses a quick, safe and cost effective white-light method of measurement, allowing it to be operated by non-radiology hospital staff, without the need for medical training.

BVI has been validated through the two-year Body Benchmark Study, a collaborative project between healthcare research facilities across the world.

Rubric Ltd specialises in the translation of computer documents and software programs from English into multiple languages using a combination of standard industry and in-house tools. This process of software localisation is complicated by the dispersed nature of the teams working on the projects.

Rubric required its existing distributed project tracking system extended and updated to provide an unprecedented level of information to team members, in order to increase operational efficiency and streamline administration.

The new system has become a central tool for Rubric, delivering significant value to the company. Called BugzNET4, the new scalable online bug-tracking system keeps track of every issue relating to a project. It provides all team members with an unprecedented level of information – allowing them to see summaries, drill down into individual problem reports, add comments, update status, request updates, and send automated reminders.

Pixelmoon is a publishing website inspired out of the need in the expanding personalised print market for high quality and stylish photo books.

The company required a web-based application that could utilise web-to-print technologies in a seamless and reliable way, without concerns relating to image file size or user inexperience. The proposed site would also require full support for localisation, and an e-commerce facility to allow users to purchase their photo books once created. 

Blueberry implemented a web-based platform that employs a high-end Web to print solution to produce personalised books for sale direct to the public. The site allows users to upload image files, chosen a book size, position and scale pictures, place the order, and then convert the document to print-quality PDF, ready for a professional printing partner to complete the photo book.