IP Rated Industrial Product Design and Manufacture

Remote Instrumentation Monitoring, LED Road Sign Control, Vehicle Speed Loggers, Remote LED School Sign Calendar Timers, Bluetooth or GPRS App Control

Printed Circuit Board Design

PCB Design Service from Concept to Bare Board or Full Manufacture

Specialised Desktop Software Design

Custom written desktop software packages to suit your specific requirements

We provide a complete Industrial Product Design and Production service covering initial draft concept right through to working prototype units and small to medium volume product manufacture. No job is too small. Please get in touch for a friendly no obligation quotation.

Contraq GPRS School Sign Timer

Our engineers have many years experience designing and wiring industrial instrumentation panels and enclosures for oil refineries, local authorities and the neuclear power industry. Give us a call with your requirements.
We design and manufacture Bluetooth Control Interface Units and purpose designed Android Apps to enhance the features of our customers existing products. Please get in touch for further details, or for a no obligation quotation or demonstration.



We can design and manufacture hardware to connect your devices to the Internet of Things. Everything from the supply of IP65 rated LoRa radio link edge devices with a range of up the 15km, to LPWAN gateways, and the set up and configuration of the online server. Give us a call to discuss your requirements.
We can create custom desktop software packages to suit your specific requirements. No job is too small. We are very conscientious about our work and always aim to provide the best service possible. Please get in touch for a friendly no obligation quotation.



We have been designing Printed Circuit Boards for over twenty years and provide a PCB Design service from Initial Concept to Bare Board Manufacture, or Full Component Population and Assembly. No job is too small. Please get in touch to discuss your requirements and for a free, no-obligation quotation.



We design and manufacture GSM, GPRS and 3G Android Apps and Remote Control and Monitoring Interface units to enhance the features of your existing product or system.
Please get in touch for further details, a no obligation quotation or demonstration.



NFC and RFID technology is used in a multitude of applications in almost every industry these days. Get in touch to discuss your particular product application requirements.
We have over 15 years of hands on product design and manufacture experience in the LED Road Sign industry. This includes the complete electronics, software and mechanical design process involved in Speed Indicator Signs, Safer Routes to School Signs, Wig Wag's, Multi-Message Signs, Vehicle Radar Detection and Speed Logging Products, Remote sign Monitoring & Activation products, and finally, Switched Supply and Solar and Wind Power Supply design for LED signage or other remotely located equipment.
In fact, everything from a remote control configuration and monitoring App to the entire electronic and mechanical esign of a Vehicle Speed Indicator road sign.
Get in touch today to discuss your requirements.



With three decades of commercial microcontroller firmware design, we can write industrial standard code for almost every application. Our main area of expertise is Embedded C for the Microchip PIC series, and Atmel ATMega devices. Please get in touch to discuss your requirements and for a free, no-obligation quotation.



Web based remote control allows office based configuration and monitoring of your remotely located electronics out in the field via password protected web pages. Remote control websites can be designed specifically to suit your particular remote data control and collection application, and can be provided with your own branding. The entire website and operational database can either be hosted on our servers, or on your own if required.



To enhance the features of your newly designed or existing products, we can design and manufacture remote control & monitoring interface units that will operate over the mobile SMS text message network providing the widest ground coverage of all mobile network devices. Please get in touch to discuss your application and for a no-obligation quotation or demonstration.



Contraq has many years of in depth experience with the following core technologies which are used in the majority of products that we design and manufacture:



Design and Manufacturing Services

As you can see from above, we provide a complete electronic product and system design service from concept to production, including electronics schematic design, printed circuit board layout, firmware coding, industrial enclosure design, Android App design, Website control panel and database coding, and cloud based equipment monitoring and control.

ContrAq Micro Solutions is a relatively small family based business that has been active for over three years now.  Peter Drysdale is the managing director and has over 25 years of hands on product design experience. Having designed countless products and large scale systems over the years including remote measurement, monitoring, communication and signage control applications for the nuclear and oil industries, UK airports, local authorities including Transport For London, and a wide number of designs for other commercial applications involving GPS location systems, loadcell stress alarms, security telemetry, remote battery power supply designs, a wide variety of vehicle activated LED road signs, vehicle speed detection & remote alerting products, vehicle speed display and logging signs, and industrial instrumentation logging.

We currently manufacture and supply purpose designed products to local authorities in the UK, including ANPR vehicle detection devices, remote vehicle speed data collection units, and a variety of GPRS and UHF radio linked school calendar safety sign products.

Our experience includes:

  • Atmel ATMega, Microchip PIC, Intel 8051, SGS ST6, Arduino, Raspberry PI,
  • Atmel AVR Studio, Microchip IDE, CCS PIC Compiler, Eclipse, Android Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio,
  • Embedded C++, C, C#, ASM, Python,
  • PHP, SQL, Javascript, CSS, HTML,
  • Telit and Wavecom GPRS modems, Microchip and Nordic Bluetooth and Radio devices, Radiometrix modules, WiFi, XBee, UBlox GPS units,
  • Eagle and Number One Systems PCB design, plastic and metal enclosure design, IP67 and EMC consideration,
  • 173 MHz, 433 MHz, 458 MHz, 869 MHz and 2.5 GHz. K Band 24 GHz radar.

Just call the number at the top of the screen to discuss your requirements and receive a competitive, free no-obligation quotation.