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Our Research Affiliations include:

ICORD - (Neuronal Probes, Tactile Sensors & Actuators)

 Knelson Concentrators - (Magnetohydrodynamics, Electrohydrodynamics & Electrokinetics)

 Neil Squire Foundation (Brain Interface Laboratory) - (Bioelectrodynamics, Off-Body Scalp Potential Sensing  & Cortical Motor Complex Emission Signal Sensing)

 DNP Ltd. - (Electrodynamics, Electromagnetics & RF Techniques)

Conveyor Belt Technology Corp. - (Electrodynamics, Non-Contact / Non-Destructive Testing & Non-Invasive Sensing Techniques)

Dieter W. Blum - QTI Group PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER

Mr. Blum is self-taught and personally responsible for more than 50 issued and pending patents worldwide. Although he has been mainly involved in research concerning applied electrodynamics, and has been designing and developing electronic and electromagnetic systems since the age of 11, Mr. Blum has no formal degree.

In the early 1980’s, he pioneered Automatic Depth control for pneumatic seeders, Automatic Height control for combines, and Automatic Draft control for tractors (Versatile, Steiger, John Deere) and then went on to create a Patternless Lens Edging system for the eyeglass industry (WECO, Coburn Optical, Nikon.) During the latter half of the 1980’s he created novel speech compression and multiplexing techniques for the telecom sector (SaskTel, Bell South) and invented a novel TV commercial substitution and elimination system.       

Through the early 1990’s, he invented High-Resolution Video Velocimetry and an attendant License-Plate Recognition system (RCMP Science Directorate), and his creation of several Wireless Media Access controllers, Radio Frequency modems and Terminal Node controllers (used by U.S. law enforcement agencies), as well as a novel Magnetostatic Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) system (Belt C.A.T.) providing for virtual three-dimensional magnetic imaging to detect damage in high-tension steel cord reinforced conveyor belting (which has been in use worldwide since 1996, Bridgestone, Goodyear, Veyance, Belterra etc.), are indicative of the breadth of Mr. Blum’s imagination.

Still in the 1990’s, he developed a CATV-based digital Video-On-Demand (VOD) system which was sold to a US consortium that commercialized the system in conjunction with the David Sarnoff Research Center (formerly RCA Laboratories and now a subsidiary of SRI International) and this was followed by his invention of a novel PSTN-based Video-On-Demand (VOD) content compression / transmission system for hotels and large apartment buildings which allowed for delivery of VOD services via a low-cost set-top. He also pioneered Autonomous Embedded Commutation for electric traction drives and invented a novel Electrodynamic Intrusion Detection system.

Since 2000, Mr. Blum developed a Wireless Scroll Sign Display system (in use by Chevron Canada), invented a Low-Voltage Distributed Hot Cathode Fluorescent Lamp controller, a High-Efficacy Fluorescent Lamp Driver, and the next generation RMFI3D Steel Cord Conveyor Belt Imaging System (for transverse SC Damage.)

He also created a novel Field Enhancement Sensor for Off-Body Scalp Potential EEG Sensing (Neil Squire Foundation) and developed the novel REMO System2 Steel Cord Conveyor Belt Longitudinal Damage Detection System (for Rip Damage.)

More recently, his published research concerning “Lowering the Work Function of a Photoemissive Electrode via Magnetostatic Bias” was cited in US Patent 6,891,174 to Axcelis Technologies, Inc., and he also successfully demonstrated (Nov/2007) a proof-of-concept Superconducting Acyclic Electromechanical Power Converter (US Navy, NRL, ONR) at the Center for Electromechanics (CEM) at the University of Texas at Austin, and he created a novel Electrostatic Dehumidification/Condensation system, as well as a novel Photosterilization & Pathogen Detection technique and a novel Ferrohydrodynamic Forward Osmosis system.

Although his research focus is on electromagnetic power converter topologies, Mr. Blum has a long history of research and development work involving electrodynamic interactions for electrodynamic stimuli and non-invasive / non-destructive sensing / testing applications, as well as remote sensing, high-speed signal acquisition, real-time signal processing, high-resolution imaging, image processing and RF data transmission techniques.