Croxel
Headquarters: Melbourne, Florida
Region(s) Served: North America
At Croxel Inc., we are a hardware engineering company providing a comprehensive range of turnkey services from design to fabrication. Our primary service areas include industries like Industrial & Commercial, Consumer Electronics, and Healthcare & Wellness. When it comes to the Industrial & Commercial sector, we excel at optimizing our customers' manufacturing processes and supplying cost-effective technology solutions. In the realm of Consumer Electronics, we cooperate closely with both large and small R&D teams to fast-track development and reduce time to market. In the Healthcare & Wellness sector, we take pride in helping to create platforms and devices that monitor and analyze data to improve health and well being.
Our services start with research, where we concentrate on understanding the client's business and selecting the most suitable technologies and approaches. Once we move into the design phase, we employ agile processes and develop detailed engineering specifications to expedite delivery. Finally, we take the responsibility of building the product, performing everything from rapid prototyping to functional testing, ensuring top-notch quality.
As a recognized partner with various leading semiconductor manufacturers, we have the capability to speed up the development and time-to-market of designs based on a wide range of technologies. We proudly offer turnkey solutions for hardware and firmware development for a multitude of semiconductor products.
Our focus lies in reducing friction and accelerating the development process. We offer end-to-end solutions, eradicating traditional barriers such as delays and miscommunication that can arise during the transition from one phase to the next. Our agile methods help speed up product delivery, saving time, money, and manpower for our clients.
We offer our support to both technical and non-technical teams throughout all phases of product development.
Products
UWB RTLS Wearable Tag
Project: Wearable Tag for Real Time Indoor Location System
Contact Tracing & Skin Temperature Monitoring
Summary
A wrist wearable device was designed and built on a rapid prototyping project. The wearable acts as a mobile “tag” in an Ultra Wide Band (UWB) network allowing for real time indoor tracking.
A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) System on Chip (SoC) is used as the application processor and for local connectivity and configuration of the UWB “tags” and “anchors” through a mobile app.
The wearable device was designed to include a skin temperature sensor.
- Printed circuit board (PCB) design & assembly
- Industrial design, enclosure fabrication & mechanical assembly
- Firmware design and development
- Cloud backend server
- Web user interface
| Wireless Technologies Applied | Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) | Ultra Wide Band (UWB) |
| SiP / SoC | nRF52832 | DW1000 |
| Manufacturer | Nordic Semiconductor | Qorvo |
KIOTE/11
is a highly flexible and customizable platform designed to quickly develop, test, and prototype Cellular IoT products across a wide range of applications. It encompasses all the required building blocks, including hardware, firmware, and high-level software, for rapid IoT prototyping, implementation, and deployment.
- Nordic Semiconductor SiP nRF9160
- 64 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 with 1 MB Flash + 256 KB RAM
- Integrated LTE-M Cat M1 /NB-IoT Modem and GPS receiver
Onboard Sensors
- Indoor Air Quality, Humidity, Temperature & Barometric Pressure
- Ambient & RGB Light,
- Time-of-Flight 2m Proximity
- Long Range PIR Motion
- 3-Axis Accelerometer Magnetometer
- Hall Effect Magnet Detection
- PDM MEMS Microphone
- I2S DAC & Class D Audio Amplifier
General Features
- Onboard LTE and GPS antenna provisioned with connectors for external antenna use
- GPS Cellular based location tracking
- Rechargeable Lipo battery input connection
- USB charging capabilities
- USB/UART interface
- 1W speaker audio output
- RGB LED Indicator and user button
- Onboard beeper
- Expansion interface:
- UART
- I2C
- PWM & Analog
- GPIO
