Cognito Quam Electrotechnologies Ltd (established in 1990) is a privately held engineering and commercial company specializing in industrial electronics and their application. The company expertise covers all aspects of applications for the factory environment namely measurement (transducers and sensors), data processing and communication, control and actuation, automation and robotics and power and energy electronics.
Cognito Quam has contributed and been involved in the design and development of the following technologies, machinery and devices:
- Power factor contollers,
- Motor voltage and frequency inverters and converters,
- Thermal load control and management,
- Robotic interfaces and protocol converters,
- Adaptive panel controllers,
- Robotics controllers,
- Variable speed ventillation drives,
- Olive oil processing rejects control equipment (FAIR contract),
- Low Voltage and EMC CE marking compliance devices and equipment for production lines,
- Portable dioxine-furan instrumentation (SMT contract),
- Three-phase programmable soft-starters,
- Hard real time job scheduling systems,
- Hard real time industrial distributed data systems (Brite-EuRam subcontract),
- Calibration rig and supplies for power meters,
- Electrical utility Hall effect energy and power meters,
- Industrial data networks,
- Battery chargers and UPS inverters,
- Solar power air conditioning telemetry and control systems (Thermie subcontract)
- Small switching power supplies,
- Multi-port communication PC cards,
- Ship oily water separators, and
- Modem controllers.
Cognito Quam also offers its research and development services in integrating its products in larger industrial systems or products as well as in the design of new and challenging devices and equipment. As such the company cooperates closely and supports its customers in their efforts for a better product.
Ms Smeele-Daniil is the executive officer responsible for the general, commercial and logistical management of the company's undertakings. She holds an LL.B. from the University of Hull.
Dr. Daniil is the executive officer in charge of Cognito Quam's technical activities. He is a registered electrical and electronics engineer, a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece, a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA) and a member of the European Working Group of the Industry Applications Society (Power Conversion). He holds a M.Sc. in Instrument Design and Application and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Electronics, all from UMIST in Manchester, UK. He is a specialist in industrial electronics covering measurement, control, information and power applications for the factory floor. He has published on Hall effect power measurement, low magnetic field metrology and three-phase soft-starters.
Mr Politis is in charge of the company's finances and accounts. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Athens ("ASOEE").