Bitgear

For companies that want a connected product designed and built rather than only sketched out, Bitgear offers a research and development partner in Belgrade, Serbia. The company presents itself as a product development and IoT solutions centre, and it aims to take an idea through to a product that can be made in volume and is useful and usable.

Engineering built on scientific understanding

The company says it blends a scientific understanding of the underlying technology and processes with a streamlined approach to creating products and supporting them over their lifetime. Its work covers custom and standard electronics, software and algorithms, as well as system components and intellectual property. It applies technology from several disciplines, always with a grasp of the background concepts, so that complicated systems are built on sound foundations.

The company also describes its role as shaping ideas into products that are mass producible, useful and easy to use. It works on complete systems or on subsystems, depending on what the client needs.

Agriculture, factories and livestock

Bitgear describes three areas of application. In precision agriculture it has developed an optical IoT device that gives farmers decision support. For industrial systems it offers Industry 4.0 solutions based on FPGA system-on-chip processing, which the company says allow high-speed processing on the factory floor. For livestock, it builds custom IoT systems that let producers monitor their animals in real time, as part of a wider effort to digitize animal production.

Across these areas, the company says it helps businesses carry out digital transformation with tailor-made IoT solutions, aimed at improving operational processes and uncovering value that is not yet being used.

Design that plans for repair and reuse

The company says it applies circular economy principles from the start of a project. Its IoT products are designed from a whole-lifecycle perspective, with a focus on modular construction, repairability and making fuller use of each product. The company argues that this approach helps slow resource use and close the loops through which materials are lost.

Partners and the way projects run

Bitgear names several partners. They include the Telekom Srbija IoT ecosystem, Deloitte for IoT implementation, the Biosense Institute for smart farming, and SCGM, which works on industrial design and injection moulding. The company takes projects from concept through deployment, and it presents its partners as part of how a product reaches the market.