The Insyght Blog

    Practical guides on IoT hardware design, firmware development, product certification, and bringing connected products to market.

    From Our Engineering Team

    Concrete advice based on real products we've built and shipped.

    How IoT Devices Get Tested on a Production Line
    11 August 2026

    How IoT Devices Get Tested on a Production Line

    Four test stages stand between a soldered board and a shipped product: AOI, ICT, functional test and end-of-line. What each one catches, and how we run them.

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    Building JOGO: a football sensor that hides in the insole
    6 August 2026

    Building JOGO: a football sensor that hides in the insole

    How we put a sensor under a player's foot without them feeling it: an ultra-thin PCB, an antenna tuned to work through a foot, and shot analysis on the IMU.

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    CE and FCC in Plain Words: When You Can Sign It Yourself
    28 July 2026

    CE and FCC in Plain Words: When You Can Sign It Yourself

    Nobody hands you a CE certificate — you sign it. The rule that decides whether you can sign alone or need a notified body, worked through on an LTE-M tracker.

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    The Cyber Resilience Act: what to do before September 2026
    21 July 2026

    The Cyber Resilience Act: what to do before September 2026

    From 11 September 2026 you have 24 hours to report a vulnerability being exploited in your product. Who it applies to, and what's worth doing this year.

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    From working prototype to CE-certified production
    13 March 2026

    From working prototype to CE-certified production

    Your prototype works — that's the easy part. What stands between it and a product you can legally sell in Europe: directives, testing, and the technical file.

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    CE certification for IoT devices: the whole path
    20 February 2026

    CE certification for IoT devices: the whole path

    A practical guide to CE marking for connected hardware: which directives apply, what goes in the technical file, and which pre-compliance tests save money.

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    Building MedeMeter: solar-powered environmental sensing
    10 February 2026

    Building MedeMeter: solar-powered environmental sensing

    How we built a solar-powered outdoor sensor that measures noise and air quality with on-device psychoacoustic AI — and which problems actually turned out hard.

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