The Need
One of the largest smart furniture manufacturers in the United States was facing multiple technical challenges and was looking for an Engineering Partner who could not only solve the challenges but also enable them to design, development, and production of next-gen smart furniture.
Impacts Delivered
- Mass production of about 1000 units a year
- Delivered 50% cost savings by moving to a new contract manufacturer (US-based).
- FCC and IC certifications
- Cloud optimization delivered 60% operational cost reduction.
- Increased the coverage of the gateway by 30%
- Improved the overall system performance significantly
Our Solution
- Gadgeon took the complete ownership of the Product life Cycle phases:
- System design
- Prototyping and verification
- Pilot production
- Mass production
- After market support
- The engagement started as After Sales Support for solving RF challenges.
- Analyzed the root cause and resolved them through a thorough redesign of the system design - hardware & firmware
- Replaced obsolete parts and updated the BSP to support new hardware changes.
- Requirement specification and concept design for the next-gen system with Mobile & cloud connectivity.
- Concept validation with selected users.
- Design, Development, and testing of Mobile and Cloud application
- Updated the hardware and firmware to accommodate new user requirements from users.
- Industrial and mechanical designs to accommodate different product mounting scenarios.
- Existing hardware and firmware upgrades were validated against different user scenarios.
- The Cloud app is hosted on customer’s own server, removing license cost and reduced hosting costs.
- All existing users were migrated to the new mobile apps.
- Performed code optimizations to improve the app performances.
- Supported and obtained FCC and IC certifications
- Inventory management using the client's CM system.
- Mass production transfer to a US-based Contract Manufacturer.
- On filed user support for the product, mobile apps, and cloud applications.
- Obsolescence management of existing hardware units
Tools & Technologies
- Mobile apps (iOS & Android), Cloud Applications along with Hardware & Firmware.
- Platform - Yocto Linux, C/C++, MySQL, MQTTS
System Block Diagram
ODM Life Cycles Supported
