Electronics that survive the field, not the lab bench.

A design office that has shipped industrial hardware, not just designed it.

Most embedded consultancies hand you a schematic and a repository. The hard part of industrial IoT is everything after that: the enclosure that holds at −40 °C, the radio link that closes across a lease, the certification file, the test fixture, the contract manufacturer who has to build it a thousand times identically.

Pass works across that whole span. Engagements typically start at requirements and area classification and end with a unit that has passed environmental testing, cleared ISED / FCC, and has a documented production and sustaining path. We work equally well as the entire engineering function for a small product team, or as the radio, power or firmware specialist inside a larger one.

The practice has been operating since 2022. For four of those years it delivered continuous hardware and firmware engineering to an industrial IoT company supplying the global mining sector — four connected-hardware product lines carried from concept through certification to mass production and field deployment. That engagement has concluded, and Pass is now taking on new clients.

Pass is the principal's full-time practice, and a small office by design — a limited number of concurrent engagements, each with his own hands on it. That is a constraint worth stating up front rather than discovering in month three.

Availability Accepting new engagements now, for scoping and design starts this quarter.

Six disciplines, one team, no hand-offs between vendors.

The failure mode in connected-hardware projects is the seam — between the board and the firmware, the firmware and the radio plan, the radio plan and the certification file. These are held by one team.

How we work, and the terms we will not move on.

Stated plainly so that neither side wastes a month finding out. If these terms do not fit your program, that is useful to know in the first conversation rather than the first contract review.

Engagement types

Fixed-scope NRE development, OEM and white-label product design, retained specialist support (RF, firmware, certification), and technical due diligence.

Scoping

Every engagement begins with a paid, short scoping phase producing a requirements document, an architecture, a certification plan and a costed BOM target. You own that output whether or not the build proceeds.

Intellectual property

Application-layer IP developed for your product transfers to you. Core platform IP — our reusable hardware, firmware and cloud foundations — is licensed, never assigned. This keeps your cost down and our platform intact.

Open by default

Open protocols, documented interfaces, exportable data. We will not build you a system that your next vendor cannot read.

Field readiness

Design work is done from our office; site attendance is arranged per engagement. Operator vendor qualification — ISNetworld, Avetta, ComplyWorks, COR, MSA and insurance limits — and the safety certification the site requires are completed before any site work is scheduled.

Built for the two industries we actually know.

Resource operations are not a generic IoT market. The area classifications, the procurement gates, the site conditions and the tolerance for failure are all specific — and all of them shape the board.

Tell us what has to work, and where it has to work.

The most useful first message describes the asset, the environment, the data you need off it and the constraint you are up against — power, coverage, area classification or cost per unit. A reply within two business days, and an honest answer if it is not a fit.