Designing IoT Devices:
The Eseye Way

Transcript

The classic process for designing an IoT device would be you start from a spec and you'd go through a schematic and we'd produce some documentation. But actually we take a different view. We have a pre stage process that we try to follow.

The first stage of device design that we like to embark on with our customers, but it's by no means mandatory, is that we go for a proof of concept. We try to build that on a platform that we have designed in house. What that allows us to do is to get there quicker.

We can model the environment. We can model the device, we can start giving you data from your things.

That's why we start on the journey that says we'll collect some data. Some we'll discard, some we'll keep.

And the data that we finally use It's often, as I said, different from the preconceived ideas of the data that's going to give us value.

A second stage would then be that we take that proof of concept and we might build a prototype of your real end product, the thing that you might ultimately take into production. That starts to take allow you to look the look and feel of it, how it will interact with the world around it.

And then there's the third stage, which is a more production oriented process. That production process, it does follow a more traditional design process with a spec and a structure around it, but that's because looking to take something that's replica and it's found in thousands of pieces, so you need to look at the detail.

Some customers might come with a prototype. They've already built something that works. So we can do a hybrid on these processes to build a solution for the customer.