---
title: Industrial Sensor
description: "Mechanical
Electrical design
Firmware
Component sourcing
Manufacturing management
Prototype assembly
3D printing
Pulley gearing design
patent support"
image: http://www.boulderes.com/hubfs/municipal_sensor-922054-edited.jpeg
---

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# Industrial Sensor

## Industry

Municipal

## Client Size

$1M+

## Engagement

$125k dev, $60k materials, over two 3 month efforts

#  Problem

In a specific municipal inspection sector, the client had discovered a huge opportunity for automation that could save some cities millions of dollars each year. Though maintaining a skilled in-house software team, the company lacked the electro-mechanical horsepower to create an investor-ready proof-of-concept (POC).

 

 

# Solution

Boulder Engineering Studio brought the necessary design expertise to make the client’s vision a reality in 3D-printed nylon and off-the-shelf components--all while updating and supporting the client’s current products. BES’s firmware engineers helped to augment the customer’s in-house team and our electrical team helped design and manufacture the necessary custom circuit boards.

## Inputs

- Downstream software and image stitching
- Compelling user story

## BES Process

- Definition
- Prototyping

## Standards & Certs

- IP69k
- NEMA 4x
- IP67

## Outcomes

- Functional POC
- Two rounds of iterative prototypes demonstrated at/to industry shows, potential partners, and investors
- Strong foundational design to transfer to in-house development

## Services Provided

- Mechanical design
- Electrical design
- Firmware development
- Component sourcing
- Manufacturing management
- Prototype assembly
- 3D printing
- Pulley and gearing design
- Limited patent support

## Special Technologies

- 3D Imaging
- Illumination
- Optics
- Structured light
- Industrial computing
- High performance graphics analysis
- Time of flight
- Kinematics/dynamics motion
- Simulation
- Slip rings
- Large format/high accuracy 3D printing

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