Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi Design & Engineering for Connected Medical Devices
We develop Wi-Fi for products where the wireless decision shapes everything around it, from the security model to the regulatory record.
Wi-Fi Connected Systems, Engineered as One.
Where Wi-Fi gets hard
Decisions to Get Right, Failures to Resolve.
Get the early calls wrong and the failure surfaces layers away.
Connectivity Strategy
- Choosing between Wi-Fi, BLE, cellular, or a multi-protocol approach for the use case
- BLE-to-Wi-Fi commissioning architecture is about to lock
- Topology (gateway vs direct-to-cloud) has to be decided before development commits
- One radio may not cover the range, topology, and bandwidth the product needs
- The wireless approach has to fit the power, size, and cost envelope
Feasibility & Risk
- Wi-Fi performance isn’t proven in the RF environment the device will deploy into
- Range, attenuation, and roaming behavior aren’t validated against the real deployment
- Device-to-cloud reliability is unproven against real-time and security demands
- The wireless approach hasn’t been validated before full development commits
- The concept needs proving before major capital goes in
Security Architecture
- The shared-network threat model has to be built into the architecture from the start
- Certificate provisioning and lifecycle have to scale before manufacturing does
- The authentication model has to hold across consumer, institutional, and clinical networks
- 524B documentation needs to be generated during development, not assembled at submission
- Wireless security architecture is being scoped before regulatory expectations are clear
Power Architecture
- Power budgets are being set before Wi-Fi’s real radio cost is modeled
- Sleep and wake architecture is being scoped before the cloud session contract is defined
- BLE and Wi-Fi duty cycles have to be coordinated in the power architecture
- Battery life targets need validation against field-realistic usage before commit
- Provisioning and reconnection power costs weren’t accounted for in the budget
Cloud Architecture
- Cloud protocol choice (MQTT, HTTPS, WebSocket) is being made before the data model is clear
- Session model and reconnection semantics weren’t designed for real-world connectivity gaps
- Offline behavior and data sync have to hold without breaking cloud consistency
- Certificate lifecycle and TLS termination weren’t architected for production scale
- A protocol layer designed for a prototype hasn’t scaled with the product
Provisioning & Onboarding
- Provisioning breaks on networks with non-standard DHCP, ISP proxies, or captive portals
- Network join completes but DNS, clock, or routing keeps the device offline
- Clinical networks require credential management the device wasn’t designed for
- The same device has to provision in both consumer homes and clinical environments
- Users abandon setup because the onboarding flow doesn’t fit their environment
Network Resilience
- Devices lose data or behave unpredictably during network outages
- Connection recovery after interruption requires manual intervention
- Local buffering and retry logic weren’t designed for real network conditions
- Firewall rules and DNS failures block device communication in the field
- Performance degrades when the network is congested or signal is attenuated
Fleet Operations
- OTA firmware updates fail across the fleet because the rollout strategy wasn’t designed for scale
- Devices in the field can’t be diagnosed because remote logging wasn’t built in
- Fleet visibility is limited because device management wasn’t architected for production
- No rollback strategy exists when an update introduces a regression
- Manufacturing provisioning doesn’t scale to the fleet size the product is shipping into
Clinical Deployment
- Clinical engineering surfaces network architecture assumptions that don’t hold
- Hospital IT policies block or restrict device communication
- Device performance degrades in clinical RF environments
- Network segmentation requirements weren’t accounted for during architecture
- Deployment slips when clinical constraints surface late in the program
OUR APPROACH
We Engineer Wi-Fi as a System Problem.
Every layer of the device shapes how Wi-Fi behaves in the field.
The Problem
Wi-Fi gets handed off as connectivity. The decisions don't stay there.
When Wi-Fi gets treated as a deliverable, the architecture choices it forces (power, cloud session, security, fleet operations) get made inside other layers, by teams that don’t carry wireless authority. The wireless behavior the product ships is whatever those layers leave behind.
How We Engineer It
So we engineer it with the whole system in view.
A wireless strategy commits more than the radio. It commits the power architecture feeding the radio, the cloud session running over it, and the security architecture defending it. Those layers get engineered as one because the same engineers build them all.
What this looks like in practice:
- Wireless strategy chosen against the use case and deployment environment, not the protocol the team knows best
- Power architecture modeled against Wi-Fi’s real radio cost in field-realistic usage
- Device-to-cloud protocol designed for the network conditions Wi-Fi will actually encounter in the field
- Wireless security architected against the shared-network threat model and documented for FDA cybersecurity documentation (524B) as the work happens
- Multi-protocol coexistence (BLE plus Wi-Fi) engineered as a single radio architecture
- Fleet operations infrastructure built into the architecture from the start
The Results
The Wi-Fi behavior you ship is the behavior you engineered.
Early Wi-Fi decisions hold all the way to deployment. The architecture goes to design freeze knowing what the field, the production scale, and the cybersecurity review will test it against, so the program stops relitigating wireless decisions late.
Why teams trust us
The Wi-Fi Work Behind Cleared Medical Devices.
Earned in programs and tools where the work has to hold up.
Connectivity Depth
Hundreds of connected device programs across BLE, Wi-Fi, and cellular.
Fifteen years of wireless engineering have taught us the tradeoffs among them. We know when Wi-Fi is the right choice, when BLE is, and how to make both work in a single connected system.
That same cross-protocol view is why we engineer Wi-Fi knowing how a protocol-level decision moves through firmware, mobile, cloud, and security.
CROSS-LAYER ENGINEERING
Wi-Fi engineered across every layer it reaches.
Wi-Fi shapes firmware, mobile, cloud, security, and the system architecture that holds them together. We build all of those layers, which means Wi-Fi decisions get made with full visibility into what every other layer requires, and the cross-layer problems Wi-Fi creates get resolved by the team that engineered them.
Proven in Regulated Products
Wi-Fi connected medical devices in production, cleared and shipping.
Wi-Fi runs in cleared connected medical devices deployed in clinical environments today. We engineer it to FDA and IEC 62304 from the first architecture decision, with traceability, risk control, and 524B cybersecurity documentation generated as the work happens.
Clinical Deployment
Wi-Fi engineered for the networks hospitals actually run.
Cleared connected medical devices we’ve engineered are running today on hospital networks, through clinical engineering review, MDS2 documentation, and the IT policies institutional environments enforce. That experience shapes how we architect Wi-Fi before clinical engineering ever sees the device.
Selected work
Wi-Fi Connected Products We’ve Delivered On
Here are a few of the products we’ve supported with Wi-Fi architecture, troubleshooting, and full-system integration.
In-Hospital Angiography Equipment with Remote Device Management
Connected Automation System for High-Density Commercial Buildings
Smart Privacy Glass Platform for Homes and Commercial Spaces
Smart Docking System for a Clinical Microneedling Device
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