Plextek

Plextek's product design capabilities seamlessly blend creative innovation with technical precision to deliver products that excel in both form and function. Our comprehensive approach encompasses industrial design expertise that transforms market insights into compelling, user-centric products with intuitive aesthetics and seamless user experiences, while our mechanical design capabilities ensure robust, efficient systems that meet stringent manufacturing, quality, and environmental standards.

From initial concept development and 3D CAD modelling to advanced finite element analysis and prototype validation, our multidisciplinary team combines creative thinking with deep technical knowledge of materials, manufacturing processes, and emerging technologies like generative AI. Whether developing consumer electronics, automotive components, or specialized technical equipment, we deliver integrated solutions that balance commercial viability, user satisfaction, and manufacturing efficiency while supporting sustainable design practices and minimizing environmental impact.

AI is revolutionising sensing and radar technology, providing new levels of accuracy, efficiency, and reliability. At Plextek, we combine 35+ years of engineering excellence with cutting-edge AI and data science to create next-generation sensing solutions that push the boundaries of performance.

With our deep technical knowledge and hands-on approach, we help you integrate AI into your sensing and radar systems. This ensures smarter, faster, intuitive technology for industries where performance is critical.

From radar systems that detect threats with greater precision to sensor networks that adapt intelligently to their environment, our expertise in AI-driven signal processing, sensor fusion, and predictive analytics can help businesses enhance safety, reliability, and real-time decision making.

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Plextek's sensor systems expertise delivers intelligent solutions across critical applications where precision, reliability, and real-time performance are essential. Our capabilities span alternative navigation systems for GNSS-denied environments, comprehensive asset tracking solutions using advanced wireless technologies, and predictive condition monitoring systems that detect subtle operational changes before failures occur. We specialize in embedded software development and system design, creating custom solutions that integrate hardware and software for optimal performance in challenging environments.

From Internet of Things frameworks optimized for extended battery operation to sophisticated perimeter security systems using mmWave radar technology, our sensor solutions combine decades of RF expertise with cutting-edge machine learning algorithms. Whether developing boot-mounted navigation aids for underground operations, industrial monitoring systems, or compact radar modules for drone detection, we deliver tailored sensor technologies that operate reliably in the most demanding conditions across defence, commercial, and industrial applications.

Plextek's radar systems expertise spans the complete spectrum of radar technology development, from fundamental antenna design and propagation modelling to advanced mmWave sensors and cutting-edge ubiquitous radar platforms. Our comprehensive capabilities encompass precision antenna and propagation solutions for optimal signal transmission, high-performance mmWave radar sensors for applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to healthcare monitoring, and innovative multi-static and passive radar systems for complex sensing environments.

Whether you need perimeter security solutions, complete RF system design, or breakthrough ubiquitous radar technology that provides continuous 360-degree surveillance, Plextek delivers tailored radar systems that meet your specific performance requirements. Our proven track record includes developing low-SWaP (Size, Weight, Power) radar solutions, advanced signal processing algorithms, and integrated systems that excel in challenging real-world conditions—from drone detection and ground surveillance to precision motion sensing and collision avoidance applications.

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With sensors embedded everywhere from consumer devices to city infrastructure, we can capture and translate your environment into meaningful information through intelligent application of cutting edge technology.

Whether you’re looking for a new sensor for a niche application or a wide area network made up of thousands of nodes, our scientists and engineers have decades of experience in providing customers with field-proven solutions.

• We resolve the toughest sensing problems
• Building scaleable IoT ecosystems
• Technology independent
• Reduce product cost

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We understand the key security market challenges and generate solutions through to delivery, giving you the confidence that your product is delivered to the assured level of security, performance, resilience and ergonomics that you need.

With product design and manufacture done under the strictest confidence, factory systems are often designed with security as the top priority. You need a partner who understands your security needs, but can deliver high quality innovative solutions.

Services:

Government & Public Safety

Transport

Critical National Infrastructure

One of Plextek’s strengths is that it backs its technical implementation skills with consultancy in the form of strategic advice and studies.

Either as a prelude to product development or as a stand-alone activity, Plextek can help clients identify and evaluate opportunities resulting from new markets and technologies. We address a wide range of applications and market sectors within electronics, including automotive, consumer, defence, industrial, medical, security, telecoms, transport and utilities.

The combined experience of our 70+ technical design and manufacturing experts enables us to offer a unique and practical business perspective.

We work for both private and public sector clients including governments, financial investment firms, manufacturers and network operators, assisting with strategic evaluation and decision-making to inform stakeholders, identify risks and improve operational and business effectiveness.

Plextek’s contribution is particularly powerful when clients are seeking to move into new areas of technology or need a fresh view on how existing skills and assets can be exploited in new markets. We bring independent and innovative thinking to business and engineering plans, injecting realism based on having successfully undertaken and delivered several hundred projects.

 

Sensor Systems allow our solutions to gather information about the world around them. Ensuring that this information is timely, unambiguous, accurate and easy to interpret can be a significant technical challenge in its own right.  

We have engineered systems to measure a great range of different parameters, extracting from radar sensors that provide spatial information about the world through to contact sensors that detect electrical signals on the human body or buried sensors that detect the presence of a parked car. These often require a carefully crafted combination of sensor physics, analogue signal manipulation and digital signal processing.

Typically, systems use signal processing as the means to extract from, process or prioritise high order data from gathered sensor output for presentation to another system element.

An effective signal processing chain can operate in the real world with the required performance levels and reliability to understand real world effects. We understand this challenge and derive high quality solutions through modelling, mathematics, complex DSP algorithms, hardware and software engineering.

 

Plextek has a long heritage in the development of optimal RF solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of high performance Radar and Communication applications. Our multidisciplinary “ground up” approach enables us to clearly identify our client’s requirements and work collaboratively to meet the client needs.

Whether it is adapting and configuring existing technology for a specific desired application or designing new applications entirely; our team, paired with our laboratory and testing capabilities, can give our clients world-leading radar technologies.

 

In everything that we interact with in our daily lives, product design plays an integral part.

Developing complex systems in a multidisciplinary team is how we work on a daily basis. We work to develop innovative product design whilst ensuring integrity in the whole system.

• Mechanical design – Geometric tolerancing, 2D, 3D, Creo, parametric
• Process analysis – DFM, DFA, DFT, DFMA, Process control
• Value engineering – Castings, progression tools, Injection moulding, assembly modelling, materials analysis
• 3D modelling – Model Based Definition, Creo, Spaceclaim, Keyshot texture rendering
• Additive Manufacture – SLS, FDM, MLS, DMLS, Digital printing, Rapid Prototyping, Digital Metal
• Mechanical modelling – Importing ECAD files, Stress analysis, Thermal analysis, Kinetic moment analysis
• Manufacturability – DFM, DFA, DFT, DFMA analysis
• PCB design – copper balance, Impedance control, RF, Metal backed, HDI, Flexible circuit, multilayer, Printed filters, exotic materials, Mentor Graphics

Embedded systems are the core of what we do; they deliver the intelligence that makes products work.

Our team has developed a wide range of embedded systems including IoT smart city applications, medical devices, imaging technology and communication systems. Our approach is multidisciplinary, using our wide expertise in all areas of hardware, software and firmware to create reliable, secure systems that meet our customers’ needs.