Hardware prototyping
Battery-powered and plugged-in devices with sensors, plus the backend and AI analytics that make the numbers usable. Small batch and research only — enough units to validate a sensor, collect data, run a demonstration, or put hardware in users’ hands. Not a factory line. Olivabot B.V. Email services@olivabot.com.
- Battery-powered devices. Nodes that have to sleep, wake, and last. Rings, probes, cameras on a pack — the same class of problem as Madglove and Mycosense.
- Plugged-in devices. Bench and indoor setups that stay on mains: a camera over a plant, a lab fixture, a demo unit that must not die mid-talk.
- Sensors. Pick, mount, talk to, and check whether the reading is true. That is the point of a prototype: prove the sensor before anyone scales it.
- Backend and AI analytics. Logs, dashboards, and models on the numbers — on a dedicated EU server we can run. The software half can grow; the boxes stay a small batch.
What the prototypes are for
This is research and validation, not a product SKU:
- validate sensors before you commit to a design
- collect data in the lab, a clinic, a greenhouse, or a field trial you already run
- produce a handful of units for demonstrations
- put devices with users so you have real data, not a slide
Small-batch hardware, software that can scale
Hardware stays small batch. A few boards, a printed case, a loom of cables. Files you own — CAD, firmware, BOM — so you can reprint or hand them to a manufacturer later. We do not take thousands of units, CE as a harvest robot, or a factory contract.
Software can scale. The same backend, dashboards, and AI analytics can keep taking data as you add devices or users. That is software: web apps, vision, EU hosting. The chip and the radio are firmware. The case and the mounts are CAD.
Meetings, firmware, and software are remote. Units ship. We are not an on-site install crew and we do not staff your factory floor.
Where this has been proven
A battery, a microcontroller, and a sensor on a finger ring for Madglove. Always-on LoRaWAN soil probes for Mycofarming. A printed 4-axis arm and a cheap camera for Basil Bot. Our own Gibbon Bot is the same kind of lab hardware — research, not a product.
Contact
Email services@olivabot.com.
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