Company Information
IDA Corporation designs, manufactures and markets electronic products and equipment for a wide variety of wireless communications applications. A leader in its field since 1977 IDA Corporation is respected for developing quality, innovative new products for use in a wide variety of applications. Independently capable with its own engineering, manufacturing and marketing resources, IDA has the unique capability to be a one-stop source for turn-key systems.
Traditionally IDA Corporation
has concentrated its attention to providing two-way radio accessory equipment
and products designed for use for the land mobile communications industry.
Among the first product types established at IDA were devices used with
two-way radio installations including microphones, remotes and telephone
interconnects. IDA currently actively
markets its conventional line to approximately 4000 two-way radio dealers across
the
In 1985, IDA began building equipment for Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) operators. This is equipment that is installed at tower sites for control of multiple repeaters, telephone line access and site linking. IDA was the first in the industry to provide a data accumulator that captured the identity of the caller along with the duration of the call, making possible airtime billing for SMR service. Prior to using this product SMRs were limited to charging flat rates per month and had little opportunity to manage communications traffic on the system. With the introduction of this data accumulation hardware product we designed and developed an airtime billing software application module for computation and generation of invoices from the captured data. New generations and enhancements of the software over the years have resulted in the addition of statistical analysis and financial application interface capabilities. The IDA Airtime Billing Package for SMRs is currently widely used by SMRs for their customer billing.
Since 1985 IDA Corporation has been a preferred, single-source supplier for General Electric system products (now M/A COM Inc.). These products include remotes, panels and other OEM equipment.
IDA Corporation introduced its first GPS AVL product, TRAKIT, in 1996. The TRAKIT product line has now become extensive with hardware and software products being sold into a wide variety of applications and industries, in many countries.
In 1998 IDA Corporation introduced its Engineering Design and Manufacturing Services. From concept to manufactured product, IDA has the experience and expertise to provide help at each step of product development. Independently capable with its own engineering, manufacturing and marketing resources IDA has the unique opportunity to be a one-stop source for turn-key systems. Included are firmware and software design, printed circuit board design and application software programming. Production includes through-hole and surface mount board population, wire-harness and final assembly.
All of IDA’s operations are
contained in its 25,000 sq. ft. facility in
Notable customers
- Microsoft
- General
Electric Co.
- Ericsson
- Uniden
of America Corp
- EF
Johnson Co.
- National
Park Service
- NASA
and Lockheed
- Federal
Express
- South Carolina Electric & Gas
