Emerging Tech
IoT Development and Solutions
About IoT Solutions
IoT projects usually go well in the pilot and badly at scale, and the reason is that a pilot never exercises the problems that define the system. Ten devices on a desk behave; ten thousand devices in the field have intermittent connectivity, drifting clocks, corrupted flash, firmware versions three releases apart, and a failure mode that appears only on the hardware revision your contract manufacturer switched to without telling anyone. Everything about the architecture should be designed around that reality from the start.
We design for the field. Devices are built to operate autonomously through extended disconnection, buffering telemetry locally and reconciling on reconnect. Firmware updates are delivered over the air with staged rollout, signature verification, an A/B partition scheme and automatic rollback on failed boot — because a bricked fleet is an unrecoverable event, not an incident. Each device has a cryptographic identity provisioned at manufacture, with certificate rotation and a revocation path for when a device is stolen or compromised.
The data side is a streaming problem. Telemetry ingestion sized for peak rather than average, time-series storage with downsampling and retention tiers so five years of history does not become unaffordable, stream processing for real-time alerting, and edge computing where bandwidth cost or latency makes local inference the correct answer. We build the fleet management layer too — device registry, health and connectivity monitoring, configuration management, remote diagnostics and a support interface that a non-engineer can actually use.
We work across industrial, commercial and consumer contexts, and we are comfortable with the protocol landscape: MQTT and CoAP for constrained devices, Modbus and OPC UA for industrial equipment, BLE and Zigbee for local mesh, and cellular or LoRaWAN for wide-area deployments.
Why it matters
What you get
Designed for field conditions
Autonomous operation through disconnection, local buffering and clean reconciliation — because the pilot never tests what the field does.
OTA updates that cannot brick a fleet
Signed firmware, A/B partitions, staged rollout and automatic rollback on failed boot. Fleet bricking is unrecoverable, so it is engineered out.
Per-device cryptographic identity
Certificates provisioned at manufacture with rotation and revocation, so a compromised or stolen device can be cut off individually.
Telemetry economics that work at scale
Time-series storage with downsampling and retention tiers, so five years of history stays affordable rather than becoming the largest line item.
Fleet operations for non-engineers
Device registry, health monitoring, configuration management and remote diagnostics in an interface support staff can genuinely use.
How we deliver
Our process for this work
Adapted to this service specifically — not a generic five-box diagram.
- 01
Solution architecture
2–4 weeksDevice and connectivity selection, protocol choice, power budget, security architecture, data model and total cost of ownership modelling at target fleet size.
- 02
Prototype & validation
4–8 weeksWorking device prototype with cloud connectivity, validated under realistic power, connectivity and environmental conditions.
- 03
Platform build
8–16 weeksIngestion pipeline, time-series storage, stream processing, fleet management, OTA infrastructure and operator interfaces.
- 04
Pilot deployment
6–12 weeksField pilot at meaningful scale with real users, instrumented for connectivity, power and failure analysis before full rollout.
- 05
Scale & operate
OngoingManufacturing provisioning integration, fleet growth, firmware release cadence, and operational support tooling.
Proof
Where we have done this
A supply chain control tower that surfaces exceptions before they land
A real-time visibility platform unifying 19 carrier feeds, with predictive ETAs and exception routing that reaches an operator while options still exist.
- Reduction in late-delivery penalties
- 61%Reduction in late-delivery penalties
- Systems an operator monitors
- 19 → 1Systems an operator monitors
- Average earlier exception detection
- 4.5 hrsAverage earlier exception detection
Answers
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