IoT where the hardware is the hard part.
Sensing, firmware, gateway and dashboard — with the enclosure, the gasket and the assembly coming off the same floor. Because connected products rarely fail on the dashboard.
Not on the dashboard.
Connected-product programmes are usually sold as software problems and usually fail as physical ones. The dashboard is the easy part, and it is the part everyone demonstrates.
What actually goes wrong: the enclosure does not fit the board once the antenna is placed. The device overheats in a sealed box in an Indian summer. The antenna is next to a ground plane and the range collapses. Water gets in through a cable entry nobody sealed. The power budget assumed a duty cycle the firmware does not implement. Assembly takes forty minutes a unit because nothing was designed to be assembled.
A software agency subcontracts every one of those. Here the firmware, the enclosure, the gasket and the assembly are on one floor — so an antenna problem is a conversation on the bench rather than a change order between three vendors.
What a build involves.
- Sensing and hardware selection — choosing proven silicon over novel silicon, and being clear which one you are paying for.
- Embedded firmware — on ESP32-class parts, with the power budget designed rather than discovered.
- Connectivity — LTE-M or WiFi, chosen for where the device actually lives rather than for what demos well.
- Gateway and cloud — MQTT and REST, with data you can get out of the system as well as into it.
- Dashboard — enough to operate and monitor the fleet.
- Enclosure, sealing and mounting — designed around the board and the environment. See PCB enclosures.
- Assembly and test — with printed test fixtures so units are verified consistently.
Our reference build is that full stack shipped in roughly eight weeks — realistic for a device using proven parts, and not realistic for a novel design, which we will say at the scoping stage rather than at week seven.
The gap nobody budgets for.
A working bench prototype and a manufacturable product are different things, and the distance between them is routinely underestimated — usually because it is mostly physical work rather than code, and code is what the team can see.
- Design for manufacture on the enclosure and the assembly.
- Tooling decisions — printed while volumes are low, moulded when they justify it.
- Test fixtures so every unit is verified the same way.
- Assembly process designed so a unit takes minutes, not an afternoon.
- Serialisation and records for field support that is possible rather than theoretical.
All of that is in-house here. See contract manufacturing.
Certification and ownership.
We do not issue certification. We design with it in mind and support the process, but approvals come from an accredited testing laboratory, and any supplier telling you otherwise should be treated carefully. Tell us at the start which market approvals you need — it changes enclosure material, antenna placement and power design decisions that are expensive to revisit later.
You own everything. Firmware source, CAD, schematics — work done to your brief is your intellectual property and you receive the files. We would rather earn the manufacturing than hold the design.
Common questions.
What makes a hardware-led IoT partner different from a software agency?
Which problems they can actually solve. Most connected-product programmes do not fail on the dashboard; they fail on enclosure fit, thermal behaviour, antenna placement, ingress, power budget and assembly — physical problems. A software agency subcontracts all of that. Here the firmware, the enclosure, the gasket and the assembly are on one floor, so an antenna problem is a conversation rather than a change order.
What does a typical IoT build involve?
Sensing and hardware selection, embedded firmware, connectivity — LTE-M or WiFi — and a gateway and dashboard layer over MQTT and REST, plus the enclosure and its mounting, sealing and filtration. Our reference build is a full stack of that shipped in about eight weeks, which is realistic for a device using proven silicon rather than a novel design.
Can you take an existing prototype to production?
Yes, and it is often where we add most. A working bench prototype and a manufacturable product are different things: the gap is design for manufacture, enclosure tooling, test fixtures, assembly process and functional test — most of which is physical work rather than code, and all of which we do in-house.
Do you handle certification?
We design with it in mind and support the process, but we do not issue certification — that is a testing laboratory's job, and anyone claiming otherwise should be treated carefully. Tell us at the start which approvals your market requires, because it changes enclosure material, antenna placement and power design decisions that are expensive to revisit.
Who owns the firmware and the design?
You do, including source. Work done to your brief is your intellectual property and you receive the files. We would rather earn the manufacturing than hold the design.
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