Embedded Systems Design UK, How ByteSnap Reduces Risk

When your engineering roadmap hits a bottleneck, whether it's ATEX compliance complexity, IoT reliability concerns in the field, or FPGA performance constraints, the stakes are high. Project delays, cost overruns, and compromises can derail even well-planned developments. ByteSnap Design has been helping UK manufacturers overcome these exact challenges since 2008, delivering the technical depth and multi-disciplinary capability that turns high-risk projects into confident launches.

Based in Birmingham with a 38-person team spanning hardware, firmware, GStreamer and embedded software expertise, ByteSnap Design's approach centres on these principles: reduce risk early, deliver reliably, and build robust systems that work in the real world.

Safety-Critical and ATEX: Getting Compliance Right the First Time

Developing electronics for hazardous environments demands precision few teams can maintain under commercial pressure. Requirements can be ambiguous, documentation must be watertight, and even minor misunderstandings of Zone classifications can add months of delay.

ByteSnap Design's engineers help manufacturers identify risks early in ATEX and safety-critical programmes, validating design assumptions before they become expensive problems. Their Zone 0 intrinsically safe design for Inductosense's award-winning WAND sensor systems demonstrates this capability - delivering long-range wireless IoT monitoring for industrial environments where safety isn't negotiable.

The result: products that pass certification efficiently and perform reliably in hazardous locations.

When Fixed Hardware Becomes the Constraint

Many engineering teams reach a point where off-the-shelf silicon simply can't support the next feature. Performance plateaus, power budgets tighten, and competitors begin replicating designs. These are signals that FPGA architecture may be needed, not for complexity's sake, but to regain control.

ByteSnap Design's FPGA team designs solutions for manufacturers where performance, IP protection, or component obsolescence makes custom silicon essential. Their work spans digital signal processing, high-speed interfaces, and system integration - with hardware, firmware, and software capabilities under one roof ensuring coherent, production-ready systems.

IoT Products That Actually Work in Deployment

IoT projects often behave differently once devices leave controlled testing. Wireless performance drops in busy environments, battery life falls short, and cloud connections prove unreliable in the field. These issues force costly redesigns and delay deployments.

ByteSnap Design redesigned a wireless access control system for Safehinge Primera, a mental health facility specialist. The challenge: improve battery life, reduce costs, future-proof the design, and ensure international compliance.

ByteSnap delivered a complete hardware and firmware solution achieving 3.3 years battery life (50 cycles daily), 30% BOM cost reduction, and dual-band wireless (868MHz/915MHz) for global deployment, all while transferring IP ownership to de-risk the supply chain. 

The De-Risking Advantage

What manufacturers value most when engaging ByteSnap Design is the combination of technical depth, transparent communication, and delivery confidence. The company is backed by ISO 9001:2015 certification and long-standing partnerships with several global semiconductor vendors, including STMicro, NXP, Microchip, Digi and Analog Devices.

ByteSnap Design's Secure by Design approach builds reliability, resilience, and maintainability into products from the start, addressing emerging requirements like the EU Cyber Resilience Act before they become compliance headaches.

For UK manufacturers facing complex embedded systems challenges, ByteSnap Design offers something increasingly rare: engineers who've solved these problems dozens of times before, with the multi-disciplinary capability to handle complete product development under one roof.

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