Services · Hardware design
Custom electronics for your product
We design the board, write the firmware and hand you a device that already speaks to its platform. One team takes your product from schematic to field pilot, on the same infrastructure it will run on for years.
- Tailored to your product
- Firmware included
- Built for harsh environments
- Platform-native from day one
The service
Electronics designed where the software lives
Most connected products are built twice: once by a hardware house that ships a board, and again by whoever makes it talk to a platform. We do it once, designing the board next to the software it feeds.
You bring the product: what to sense, where it must survive and the budget it must respect. You get the electronics, the firmware and a live connection to Thinger.io.
What we deliver
From schematic to connected device
Six deliverables, one device. Every prototype talks to the platform from its first boot.
Low power engineering
Sleep-first designs and power budgets planned for life in the field.
Electronics design
Schematic and PCB layout shaped by your enclosure, sensors and cost target.
Embedded firmware
Device logic, sensing and communications, from BLE peripherals to controllers on a CAN bus.
Rugged by design
Components and mechanics chosen for outdoor, physical and chemical stress.
Platform integration
Identity, telemetry, events and dashboards on Thinger.io from the first boot.
Apps and backend
The mobile app and authenticated services around the device, when the product needs them.
FROM SCHEMATIC TO SOLDERED BOARD
How we work
From idea to field pilot
Five stages, each one leaving something you can hold and review.
A product requirements specification, document PRS-0142 revision B: eight numbered requirements with targets and verification method, among them operating temperature −20 to +60 °C, IP67, five-year battery life at a 15-minute uplink, LTE-M and NB-IoT bands 3, 8 and 20, and a BOM cost target, all checked and signed off by the customer and Thinger.io.
Stage 1
Requirements
We agree what the device must do and where it must survive: sensors and actuators, connectivity, power, enclosure and target cost.
You receive A requirements sheet both teams sign off
Proof, published
Designs that left the lab
Two projects with our electronics inside, told from the client's side.
Innovation project
Prosegur: a smart lock with no keys and no batteries
An existing high security lock retrofitted with custom electronics, opened by a courier app that hands it a single use key.
- Lock retrofit
- BLE firmware
- Mobile app
Case study
An onboard controller for high security trucks
Built from scratch for a cash transport operator: parts and materials, a Revolution Pi PLC in its own cabinet, communications, control rules and CAN bus reading.
- Revolution Pi PLC
- Control cabinet
- CAN bus
Our own hardware
Boards we design for ourselves
From a classroom kit to a Linux audio player: four boards designed in house, with their notes in the docs.
Designed by Thinger.io, running in the field
M2IoT Modem
The Thinger32 folded into a 22 by 42 mm M.2 card: an ESP32 with WiFi and Bluetooth, a Quectel NB-IoT modem and a soldered eSIM. Slot it into a host board and the product is online, talking to the platform. It runs in research deployments such as the UPM soil and water network.
- Form factor
- M.2 2242 card, 22 by 42 mm
- Processor
- ESP32-PICO-D4, dual core, 4 MB flash
- Cellular
- Quectel BC660K-GL, LTE Cat NB2, 1NCE eSIM
- Wireless
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth and BLE
- I/O
- 10 GPIO and UART0 at the M.2 edge
- Programming
- Arduino, ESP-IDF, MicroPython
Built for a connected garage project
M2IoT Door Controller
The M2IoT Modem at work in connected garages. The card slots into this board, a sensor input tells the platform whether each door is open or closed, and a relay opens the automatic door on command, all in a sealed enclosure that mounts by the door.
- Module
- M2IoT Modem in an M.2 2242 socket
- Connectivity
- NB-IoT, WiFi and Bluetooth
- Door sensor
- Two-wire input (IN+, IN-)
- Door opener
- Relay with NC, COM and NO contacts
- Power
- Line and neutral terminals (L, N)
- Enclosure
- Sealed case with gasket and mounting ears
Designed and made by Thinger.io
ClimaStick
A complete IoT kit on one 17 by 38 mm board: WiFi, a micro weather station and a motion sensor, programmed from the Arduino IDE. Students build connected projects without a breadboard full of wires.
- Processor
- ESP8266 family WiFi SoC
- Environment
- Temperature, humidity, pressure, light
- Motion
- Accelerometer, gyroscope, compass
- Power
- Li-Po charger, from USB or a solar panel
- Programming
- Arduino IDE and ClimaStick library
Designed by Thinger.io
Thinger32 NB-IoT
A compact development board that pairs an ESP32 with a Quectel NB-IoT module, so one prototype can talk over WiFi, Bluetooth or a cellular low power network.
- Processor
- ESP32-PICO-D4, dual core, 8 MB flash
- Cellular
- Quectel BC660K-GL, LTE Cat NB2
- Wireless
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth and BLE
- I/O
- 10 GPIO (UART, I2C, SPI), nano SIM slot
- Programming
- Arduino, MicroPython, ESP-IDF
Finished, not taken to production
Background music player
A complete player for background music in shops and venues, built around a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 running Linux. Thinger.io designed the board, brought it up and finished it for an audio marketing company.
- Compute
- Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, Linux
- Audio
- NXP SGTL5000 codec, line out and headphones
- Controls
- Volume, channel, reset and power buttons
- Status
- Three status LEDs
- Clock
- PCF85063A real time clock
Next step
Share your vision with us
Tell us what your product has to sense, survive and report. We will tell you what the electronics need to look like, and build them.