Wearable Device Design
Cutting-edge engineering services for purpose-built wearables.
Unique, Purpose-Built Wearables
Bittium is your trusted engineering partner in developing innovative, high-quality, and reliable wearable devices. Our extensive experience from developing wearables for different use cases can help at every stage, from technology consulting and concept strategy to turnkey product development. With us, you are able to bring the new device to the market as planned.
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Martti Perälä
Sales Director, Engineering Services
martti.perala[at]bittium.com
Markku Pikkarainen
Sales Director, Engineering Services
markku.pikkarainen[at]bittium.com
Juha Lyijynen
Sales Director, Engineering Services
juha.lyijynen[at]bittium.com
Optimized Wireless Connectivity & Power Consumption
Combining Technologies & Materials as an Impressive Wearable Experience
We help you to develop innovative wearable devices by providing extensive know-how in all the relevant areas, including mechanics, sensor integration, and material selection. Our R&D team can support you with high-quality embedded design, HW, and SW expertise.
We offer joint and transparent development models, fast and cost-efficient production testing, as well as support for the whole product lifecycle.
Wireless Connectivity for Power-Optimized Devices
Optimized wireless connectivity and power consumption are some of the most important considerations when developing innovative wearables for any use case.
Leverage our comprehensive expertise in radio and antenna technologies and experience from applying the know-how to wearable device development. We help to ensure maximum coverage and data throughputs for your wearable device.
High-Quality Medical Grade Devices
Our extensive experience from development of medical grade, connected devices helps to optimize the time-to-market of your new wearable. We are ISO 13485 certified and you can trust us to verify and validate the product according to the applicable medical standards.
We have excellent in-house test laboratory capabilities for mechanical & environmental testing, antenna measurements, RF & signaling / protocol pre-conformance, and many additional areas. We can also handle pre-certification & certification for the products & solutions.
Development Partner for Major Brands
Bittium has proven track record from being the main R&D partner for several major brands in their wearable development projects. Our expertise has enabled development of high-quality, purpose-built wearables in cooperation with Philips and adidas, for example.
Bittium developed a wearable device together with Philips for measuring skin conductance and heart rate. From the skin conductance the device calculates the cortisol contribution, stress level, and cognitive performance of the user.
Bittium was the main development partner for adidas with their early sports wearables that were defining the market.
Benefits of Choosing Bittium as Your Partner
Expertise
System & Architecture Design
Flexible and tailored system design for different industries
- End-to-end systems solutions
- Use case optimized performance
- System level security design
Electronics Design
Expertise in analog, digital, and mixed signal hardware
- Embedded systems for demanding use cases
- Hardware design for challenging form factors
- Extensive expertise in design tools
Mechanics Design
Mechanics design expertise tailored for diverse industries
- Product concepting
- Design analysis
- Mechanics development
- Manufacturing support
RF & Antenna Design
Extensive expertise in demanding RF and antenna design
- RF design based on product concept
- Expertise in both custom antenna design and integration of off-the-shelf antennas
Software Development
High-quality software development expertise
- Embedded software
- Applications software
- Cloud Software
Testing, Labs, Verification
In-house laboratories and good partnerships with external service providers
- Hardware, RF, EMC, mechanics, OTA
- Software, I&V, automated testing
- Certification via 3rd party test houses
DevOps
Expertise and consulting for improved efficiency and quality in software development
- Expertise covering full DevOps lifecycle
- Unique expertise in embedded software systems
- Security considerations as one of the guiding principles
Certified Management Systems
Standards-based quality management for transparent and lean way of working
- Certifications for a multitude of standards
- Transparent continuous improvement