Hardware · Firmware · Security · RF
From idea to manufacturable product.
We design the electronics, boards, firmware and enclosure of connected products, with security built in from the start.
We take connected products from an idea to something you can manufacture: the electronics, the boards, the firmware, the enclosure.
Everything a connected product needs
Ten lines of work in four areas that together cover a connected product: the boards, the code, the radio and the security. Take one, or hand us the whole product, from schematic to enclosure.
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Electronics & mechanical
The physical product: schematics, layouts and enclosures designed together and prepared for the factory.
- Electronic and PCB design, from schematic to design for manufacturing
- Mechanical design and enclosures
- Productization consulting, from working prototypes to shippable products
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Firmware & FPGA
The code closest to the silicon: bare-metal and RTOS firmware, and FPGA logic where a processor is not fast or deterministic enough.
- Firmware development and embedded systems design
- FPGA design and signal processing
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RF & localization
Radio and acoustics from the antenna in: front ends, modems and software defined radio, plus localization and GNSS that keep working under interference.
- Antenna design, RF front ends, software defined radio, RF and audio modems
- Acoustic and radio real-time localization
- GNSS resilience against jamming and spoofing
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Security & IoT
Security decided at architecture time, and power budgets that let a device run for years on a small battery.
- Secure systems: secure boot, key storage, on-device encryption, security reviews
- IoT devices built to run for years on small batteries
See your product early, and often
We work in short iterations. You get working hardware and firmware in your hands early, give feedback, and each round moves the design closer to what you actually need. Problems show up while they are still cheap to fix, which lowers the risk of the project and raises the quality of what ships.
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Early visibility
A working prototype in the first weeks, not a slide deck at the end.
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Feedback every round
Your input goes straight into the next iteration of schematic, firmware and enclosure.
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Lower risk, higher quality
Wrong assumptions are caught before they reach the factory, and every iteration is measured against the requirements.
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Step 01 / 03
Discovery & architecture
We start with what the product has to do, where it will run and what it must resist. Out of that comes a system architecture, a parts strategy and a plan with real milestones, each one ending in something you can see and try.
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Step 02 / 03
Prototype, show, iterate
The first working prototype arrives early, not at the end. You try it, we measure it against the requirements, and the next iteration folds in your feedback. Schematics, layout, firmware and mechanics evolve together, so surprises surface while they are still cheap to fix.
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Step 03 / 03
Productize & hand over
Once the design has been through its feedback rounds, we prepare it for manufacturing: DFM review, test procedures, documentation and a clean handover to your factory or your own team.
OpenBeacon: Open hardware for open beacons
Founded in 2006, OpenBeacon became the sensor platform of the SocioPatterns research collaboration: coin-cell tags on the Nordic nRF51822 that detect face-to-face contacts at half-metre resolution, log them offline for weeks and report to Power-over-Ethernet readers, with schematics, layouts and firmware published as open source.
- Role
- Founder, hardware and firmware design
- Started
- 2006, Bitmanufaktur GmbH, Berlin
- Platform
- Nordic nRF51822, Arm Cortex-M0, 2.4 GHz
- Licenses
- GPLv2 firmware, CC BY-SA 4.0 hardware
Tell us what you want to build.
Write to us at contact@bitqan.ae for collaboration or a free consultation. We look forward to hearing from you!
