March 6, 2015

Boulder Valley’s RF engineers getting the message out

A 13-foot-square chamber at BluFlux’s facility in Louisville, which the company says is the only one between the Mississippi River and the West Coast, can be used to test the signals of cell phones, tablets, Machine-to-Machine and Internet of Things devices. The company makes the chamber available for other companies to test their prototypes. Courtesy BluFlux
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Whether you’re a consumer or businessperson frustrated by dropped cellphone connections at crucial moments or a major energy company needing more frequent pressure readings from pipelines and wellheads, radio-frequency technology becomes an invisible but crucial part of your life.

And if you live and work in the Boulder Valley, the answers to those RF woes are being developed in your backyard – by cutting-edge RF, antenna and electromagnetic engineers at companies as big and established as FreeWave Technologies and as young and ambitious as BluFlux.

In fact, it was Louisville-based startup BluFlux that announced…

With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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