LinkAmerica Labs Services
An agnostic, end-to-end R&D center for the rapid design,
development, and scaling of novel Internet of Things (IoT)
products and solutions.
Co-Creation Lab
We partner with companies that have developed novel inventions in the early stages of Ideation
End-to-End
R&D Center
From initial product definitions, to development of a functional prototype(s), to global commercialization, our team designs and develops functional products ready for commercialization
Rapid Prototyping
The rapid design, development, and scaling of bespoke Internet of Things (IoT) products and solutions are enabled by our teams capabilities and expertise, and pre-built solution reference architecture
Multi-disciplinary
team
Cross-functional team of electronics, firmware and software engineers, computer scientists,
back-end and front-end developers, UX / UI Designers
Partnership Approach
We are partners, rather than traditional service providers
Extension for R&D and
product development
All of our internal capabilities, infrastructure, and team for developing ideas to become scalable IoT products and solutions.
Pre-existing tools,
tech stack, and experience
Reduces risks, less initial investment, increases time to market, increases quality and performance.
We are a full-service solution provider capable of
turning ideation into scalable IoT prototypes
Faster Time To Market
Mix of talent, tools, and pre-built building blocks enable us to develop a scalable prototype based on your invention rapidly.
Lower Development
Costs
Hiring an internal product development team is much more cost effective than developing an internal R&D capability.
Higher Probability of Success
We consider scaling from the onset, maximizing global commercialization - from initial functional prototype to the production of millions.
Companies without internal R&D capabilities and/or product development teams have limited options when turning their novel ideas into scalable IoT products/solutions
Why?
Founders/Executives
Many have the long-term vision and deep subject matter expertise, but lack IoT product design and development experience and knowledge
Developing inhouse R&D labs / product dev teams
Companies can manage their own product development teams and R&D capabilities internally, but developing Maximizing their efforts requires many different skill sets and expertise to develop them…
External product design agencies
External contractors can develop initial designs, but they may not consider scale beyond an initial prototype
Standard outsourcing development companies
Design and develop the sensors. Many do not consider the end-to-end process and are not involved in the design phase.
Developing scalable IoT prototypes is expensive, time consuming, and has a high rate of failure
High Development Costs
Millions of dollars can be spent to develop functional prototypes either internally or via outsourcing
Long time to
market
Developing the sensors, and hardware, selecting the connectivity protocals, software, etc., is time consuming.
Low probability of success
Most IoT products/solution iterations do not go past the proof-of-concept (PoC) / minimum viable product (MVP) phase as up-front work validations were not conducted
Our Process
Guided innovation consultancy
From invention to
productization
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Design thinking
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Product scope definition
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Conceptual Mockups design
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Product/service lifecycle map
Rapid PoC/MVP
Design & development of a functional prototype
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Solution Technical Architecture and Design
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Hardware selection, design, and customization
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ATS IoT Software App customization Installation
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Learn, correct, and iterate
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Software development/ customization
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Deployment plans and execution
Scale
Full production with thousands of devices
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Market feedback analysis and course
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correction.
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Technical documentation for scalability.
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Market pricing
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Business modeling
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Designed to scale / cost-effective technical curation.
Process / Deliverables / Timeline methodology
Electronic Design & Fabrication
Product definition
• What’s the need/pain/opportunity?
• What is the business driver?
• Internal use or for
commercialization?
• Why is this a must-have?
• Is this for your own solely or to make a complementary/add-on typeof business
• What’s the alternative process? How do you solve this now?
• Can you detailed describe all steps of the use case, people, processes, and systems involved?
• What technologies are currently using/ pretending to use?
• What’s your team? Who is going to be our counterpart?
• Do you have the budget? How much?
• What's the addressable market for this solution?
• What's your share of this market?
• Are you incumbent?,Expert?
• TCO/ROI/Compliance expectations?
• More…
Days
Product Ideation & Design
Design Thinking/Product Scope Definition
• Custom sensors development
Of the shelve integration or firmaware adjustment
• Connectivity networks
• Proposed architectures
• Software interfaces & functionality
• Hardware
• Protocols
• Platforms/backend set up
• API’s
• Software & algorithms
• UI/UX ideaation & design
Conceptual Mockups design
• Cardboard
• Digital renders: software interface mockup
• Non-functional parts
Product /Service Life Cycle Map
• Supply chain
• Manufacturing
• Contractors
• Minimum orders
• Leadtimes
• Certifications
• Liabilities,
• Support (remote and field service),
installations
• Calibrations
• Remote upgrades roll out mechanisms,
• RMAs
Days - Weeks
Demo
Desk Demonstration
• Software demo
• Sensor/hardware demo using pre-existing sensors/hardware
• Firmware demo using pre-existing firmware
2-3 Months
Proof of Concept
Sensors & Hardware
• Design
• Develop/customize
• Test
Firmware
• Design
• Develop/customize
• Test
Software
• Design
• Develop/customize
• Test
UX/UI
• App: Android / iOS Design
IoT platform Customization
• Dashboards
• Front-end design
Deployment plans and execution
4+ months
Scale
• Business and operational systems integration
• Technical documentation
• Market technical feasibility analysis
• Market pricing and business model development
• Cost-effective technical curation.
• Manufacturing documents/specs
• User specs and installation instructions
• Digitial Managed Services
• Tech support
• Logistics
• Project management and coordination
• Market feedback for new versions and iterative continuous improvement
Long-term
Our End-to-End Capabilities
Product ideation
& design
Design thinking, product
scope definition, Mock-up design, product/service lifecycle Map
Pre-Build IoT
Software Platform
Pre-built, templatized, and
customizable IoT software platform: Sensor and connectivity customizable front-end design, rules & notifications, cloud services, custom dashboards, and
end-to-end encryption security
Electronic Design & Fabrication
Custom design of sensor
devices and hardware design (Printed circuit boards and chipset firmware)
Altium Designer, Eagle
Programming
Java, React Native, Python,
Javascript, Angular, Selenium, C,C++, React, HTML5 and more
Connectivity & Data Strategies
BLE, Wi-Fi, RFID, LTE, 5G,
CAT-M, NB-loT, LPWAN, CBRS,
FWA, Satellite for data connectivity for collection and enablement for edge processing, big data lake storage, and analytics / WFM and AI for end-user enablement
Firmware
Development
Microcontrollers chipsets.
Nordic nRF5x, ARM, ESP32, ESP-IDF, Dellfer and more
Platforms, Tools & Protocols
GNU/Linux, AWS, GIT, Azure,
Jira, TensorFlow, Yocto, MQTT., OpenWRT, Flutter
Scalation
Pre-GTM support, Technical
documentation, Market feedback & analysis, Market pricing, Business modeling, Cost-effective technical curation