Consultancy
From an idea to a product on sale
BYB Tech designs and builds connected hardware for other companies: mechanics, electronics, firmware, the software that reads the data and the app that carries it. Electronic design, firmware, software design, smartphone apps, industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 systems.
It is the same work BYB Tech does on its own instruments, which have been through three hardware generations since 2018. The process being sold here is one this team has already run on itself, to production, twice.
Sport and vehicle hardware
Instrumentation for bikes, motorcycles and vehicles — the category BYB Tech builds its own products in.
Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0
Connected sensing for machines and processes: acquisition, telemetry links, and the software that reads them.
Measurement and instrumentation
Any product whose job is to record a physical quantity accurately and prove it later.
How a project runs
Four phases, eleven disciplines, and a company can enter at any of them. Some projects arrive as a sketch and leave as a product on a shelf; others arrive as finished electronics that need firmware and an app.
01
Define
Is there a product here, and who buys it?
- Idea and solution
- Turning a problem into a specification a team can build against, including what the product does not need to do.
- Market research
- Who the product is for, what already exists, and what it has to beat to be worth making.
02
Design
What is actually being built?
- Product design
- Mechanical design and enclosure: how the device mounts, seals, survives vibration, and comes apart for service.
- Electronic design
- Schematic and PCB, sensor front ends, power and connectivity — designed for the environment it ships into.
- Firmware design
- Embedded software on the device: acquisition, timing, storage, and the radio link to whatever reads it.
- Software design
- Desktop and cloud software that turns what the device recorded into something a person can act on.
- Smartphone app design
- iOS and Android applications, including the pairing, sync and offline behaviour that field hardware demands.
03
Prove
Does it work outside the lab?
- Test and prototype
- Working prototypes and the test programme that finds what a bench never will.
04
Ship
How does it become a product on sale?
- Product industrialisation
- Moving from a prototype that works to a design that can be built repeatably, at cost, at volume.
- Intellectual property
- What is protectable in the design, and what has to be filed before it is shown.
- Market launch
- Getting the finished product in front of the people it was designed for.
Work already delivered
Three projects that arrived as a requirement and left as hardware. Each one names the disciplines it drew on, so the process above is not a diagram — it is what these took.
A custom data acquisition system with internal wiring, fitted to a customer's own bike. A custom data acquisition system
A customer needed acquisition hardware no catalogue part covered, so the system was designed around their measurement rather than the measurement fitted to an existing box — down to running the wiring internally.
Disciplines used
- Product design
- Electronic design
- Firmware design
New channels calculated and plotted alongside the standard set. Custom sensors, and the software to read them
Sensors built to measure quantities no standard part reads, with the analysis software extended to calculate and plot the new channels alongside the existing ones.
Disciplines used
- Electronic design
- Software design
Enclosure design for the Industry 4.0 monitoring device — a render, not a photograph. An Industry 4.0 monitoring device
A connected device carrying humidity, vibration, temperature and air-quality sensors, which acts on what it measures rather than only reporting it.
Disciplines used
- Product design
- Electronic design
- Firmware design
Why an engineering company and not an agency
An agency hands over a design. BYB Tech has taken its own hardware from a Kickstarter campaign in 2018 through three generations and into production — so the parts of a project that only appear at volume are the parts it has already met.
- Electronics, firmware, app and desktop software under one roof, so the interfaces between them are not a negotiation between vendors.
- Designed and built in Italy, with prototyping and production in the same country as the engineering.
- A shipped product line to look at before signing anything.
Bring a project
Describe what you are trying to measure and what it has to survive. A first reply comes from an engineer, not a form.