Device Development
From prototype to production-ready product
Custom electronics for startups, labs, and manufacturers. From first schematic to certified, production-ready hardware.
Sound familiar?
Your freelancer disappeared after the prototype. The contract manufacturer wants 10k units minimum and still doesn't understand what your product actually does. Every redesign burns another month of runway.
Why Octanis
More than a PCB shop.
We're entrepreneurs who engineer hardware. Your project gets leaders who've built, marketed, and shipped their own products. People who understand product-market fit, not just circuit design.
Manufacturing-ready from day one
Test jigs, incoming inspection, programming fixtures. The boring stuff that prevents a 3 AM phone call from your contract manufacturer.
Built for the field
Boards running at –20°C in the Swiss Alps and 55°C in Saudi Arabian greenhouses. If it survives a season in the field, it'll survive your customer.
Global supply chain
Assembly in Zurich or partner factories abroad. We manage sourcing, logistics, and customs so you don't wake up to a missing component email.
What we build
Vogelwarte Sempach / University of Lausanne
9 year partnership
Research ideation to connected sensor network on custom hosted data platform.
Learn more →EPFL
2 year partnership
Light sensing wearable device for scientific studies.
Digit Soil AG
4+ year partnership
Devices rented on multiple continents.
Cleanmotion
EPFL Startup, 2 years
Self-disinfecting door handle electronics in 20 airports.
Process
How we work
Discovery
Understand your sensor requirements.
Design
PCB, enclosure, firmware architecture.
Prototype
Functional prototype tested with your sensors, firmware, and real-world data.
Delivery
BOMs, Gerber files, CE documentation.
What our clients say
"As part of my research on the effects of landscape quality on barn owl fitness, it became increasingly clear that we should look at the whole annual cycle. Therefore, we looked for a way to extend our research, which until then was mainly limited to the breeding season, to the whole annual cycle. Since the barn owls stay in the breeding area all year round and also visit the nest boxes outside the breeding season, the idea arose to equip the owls with transponder rings, which are then read as soon as the owl sits on a perch attached to the entrance hole of the nest box. At the same time, the perch serves as a scale so that the owl's body weight can be registered. With Raffael and Sam from Octanis I found ideal partners to develop this system."
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