Written by Jason Choi, former Software Engineer at MistyWest Companies starting design and development on new IoT products have often heard about how cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help deploy and rapidly scale their product. …

A look at developments in FemTech that aren’t AR face filters or menstrual cycle-trackers. — This post was originally published on the MistyWest blog for International Women’s Day. Written by Madison Hope Reid, UX Designer and Content Director at MistyWest Despite women making up 50% of the global population, the women’s health technology industry (affectionately known as FemTech) experiences stigmatization of women’s health conditions and…

The smart home space may be about to experience a revolution in IoT communication standards. — Written by Tony Jackson, Mechatronics Engineer at MistyWest The smart-home space is currently — for lack of a better term — a bit of a mess. You see a neat new device that you want to add to your home, but you have to look carefully over the documentation to…

Considering a quick IoT solution that will get your product deployed faster? Here’s why you should reconsider. — Written by Kevin Baillie, Mechatronics Engineer at MistyWest When entering the connected device market, businesses are looking for IoT solutions that can keep costs manageable, scale effectively with business demands, and keep data secure. In particular, scaling effectively requires proper consideration for provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and analysis of the connected…

SOMs are often not ideal for low power applications. MistyWest and Renesas Electronics are looking to change that. — Written by Ron Eggler, Firmware Engineer at MistyWest With the recent rise in computing power that smart edge devices require, the electrical power needs of such systems has increased immensely. …

MistyWest has delivered some of our most complex technical projects since the start of the pandemic; here’s how we’ve maintained our hardware development pipeline while working with a distributed team. — Written by Mark McAllister, Firmware Engineer and Tech Lead at MistyWest Although popular in the software industry for years, remote work was uncommon in hardware development until the start of the pandemic. Manufacturing physical products requires testing, debugging and iterative design, which often relies on specialized equipment and sufficient space…

Innovative and out-of-the-box thinking is helping create an inclusive global community enabled by technology. — Written by Madison Hope Reid, UX Designer and Content Director at MistyWest Assistive technology can be broadly defined as any tools, software or materials that are developed for people to overcome challenges that result from variations in physical ability. Something as low tech as your prescription eyeglasses can be considered…

Written by Farheen Taquee, Project Manager at MistyWest To my 20 year old self, You will soon be graduating university with biomedical engineering as your major. I’m happy to tell you that as I write to you today, June 23, on International Women in Engineering Day in 2021, you are…

The greater the amount of high-quality data you have, the better your machine learning model will be. This post looks at the challenges (and solutions) involved in creating and organizing a dataset when you’re starting from scratch. — Written by Kristina Pearkes, Firmware Engineer, in collaboration with Andreas Putz, Data Scientist at MistyWest Introduction Over the past decade, one of the hottest areas of innovation has been to apply machine learning to real-world applications. Google and Amazon are now using machine learning models to transcribe speech to text, interpret…