Expert Product Design & Development Firm
Whether your project requires hardware development, embedded software engineering, security integration or cloud and mobile applications, we are the experts in product engineering services. We solve difficult problems at every stage to bring innovations to market quickly. Our contract engineering services bring together senior-level product development, testing and support professionals on a single team – ensuring your project has the right pieces in the right places, from end to end.
Cardinal Peak collaborates with clients to conceive, develop, launch and support innovative, best-in-class products.
Video
Connected Devices
Product Definition
Voice
Signal Processing
Audio
Cloud Transformation
Security
Featured Projects: Product Engineering Services
Collaborating with organizations of all sizes — from Fortune 500 leaders to innovative startups — Cardinal Peak has successfully executed hundreds of product engineering projects requiring the highest levels of expertise and support. As a leader among product development companies, Cardinal Peak reliably shepherds new ideas through the development process, into production and on to managed services and sustaining engineering. We tailor our product design services to meet your distinct needs.
Designing True Wireless Earbuds with Qualcomm Parts
With experience designing multiple true wireless earbud systems, Cardinal Peak knows the unique engineering challenges — beyond your standard Bluetooth wireless headphones.
This audio device development case study focuses on how system-level embedded software engineering issues impact the user experience and reduce power consumption — and how to overcome those concerns.
Minimizing Downtime with Cloud-Connected Lab Instruments
To help our client — a leading life sciences instruments, software and services company — address laboratory efficiency and productivity-related challenges, we designed and developed a cloud-based laboratory instrument management system using Amazon Web Services.
Equipped with a state-of-the-art management system to connect lab instruments via AWS IoT Core, our solution minimizes instrument downtime, improves laboratory workflows and reduces the IT burden on laboratory managers, enabling our client to deliver the lab of the future.
Designing iZotope's Portable Recording Studio
iZotope set out to develop a simple recording system for anyone from professional musicians and garage bands to aspiring solo artists. Effectively a portable music recording studio, Spire Studio is an all-in-one, wireless, multitrack, battery-powered recording system. With a built-in studio microphone, two inputs, automatic soundcheck and extended battery life, the connected device has everything you need to record a song.
Our hardware engineering team worked closely with the iZotope development team to create a product that maximized functionality and performance. We helped develop the detailed electronic hardware design for the housing and all the circuit boards, set up the Linux environment and developed and tested all the drivers for this innovative connected product.
App Development & UX Design for A Connected Beauty Device
Leveraging deep app development, Bluetooth and cloud experience, Cardinal Peak’s product design services expertise helped bring a connected beauty device to market. An award-winning mobile application improves the user’s experience with the skincare device and simplifies shopping through gamification and a unique selfie timeline feature. In addition to the UX/UI design, Cardinal Peak delivered:
- Android and iOS consumer mobile app development in React Native
- Bluetooth device engineering, including BLE GATT test simulator and client app development for ODM certification
- Cloud design and integration
- Quality assurance, including integrated system testing
Connected IoT and Smart Home Product Designs
Cardinal Peak has helped connect products to the internet for more than two decades. This case study discusses some of these connected devices and smart home products, along with common design challenges and advice to help chart your IoT product development.
The products vary from Wi-Fi door locks and thermostats to tankless water heaters, air conditioners and water softeners, but the engineering to connect them is the same — embedded software, hardware design, connectivity, cloud, power consumption, mobile apps and testing.
Many engineering firms deliver product designs, but Cardinal Peak brings fully tested, market-ready products to life. As a leading product development company, we provide you insight and control of the entire process.
We’ve partnered with clients to deliver successful products to market hundreds of times. Unlike many firms, we don’t bid on a project and then scramble to find a team. With more than 100 onshore veteran engineers on staff and thousands more near- and off- shore, we’re ready when you are with a connected, in-place, end-to-end team. With Cardinal Peak, you don’t have to change your schedule as we’re based in Lafayette, Colorado, just outside of Denver/Boulder, so we’re working when you’re working.
What Our Clients Say
“Working with Cardinal Peak and migrating to the AWS cloud enabled our customer experience solution to be more reliable, scalable and secure, while reducing costs.”
– Joseph Brama
VP Technology, Forrester FeedbackNow
“When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, we knew we had to accelerate our product development and get our unique wearable technology to market fast and enable better healthcare through real-time patient monitoring. We called on Cardinal Peak to join our team and provide the thousands of development hours needed to get the product deployed for trials and ready for FDA submittal. The hard work and technical expertise provided by the engineers and developers at Cardinal Peak has helped Alio deliver better healthcare to patients.”
– David Kuraguntla
Founder and CEO, Alio
“Cardinal Peak demonstrated the expertise and engineering knowledge to help us develop the FGLair application. From wireless connectivity to our mobile application, they provided excellent engineering guidance and followed through with diligent implementation of our specifications.”
– Todaka Yuichiro
Dept. Manager, Air Conditioner System Development, Fujitsu
“Cardinal Peak was a key contributor in turning our vision for Spire Studio into a physical product. The industrial design of Spire Studio is unique and introduced hardware challenges that the Cardinal Peak hardware engineering team had to navigate and adjust to quickly. With their help, we were able to maintain the integrity of the user experience while balancing cost and functionality.”
– Mark Ethier
Co-founder and CEO, iZotope
“We’re excited to welcome Cardinal Peak to our collection of AVS solutions providers. Device makers now have another easy solution for integrating voice into their devices.”
– Priya Abani
Director, Alexa Voice Service
“Our frontline workers in the hospital, in city government and at the corner market are facing unprecedented dangers every day. CovidWatcher is a way for the rest of us to give back by providing data to help guide resources to the most important challenges facing our city.”
– Nicholas Tatonetti, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
“Cardinal Peak provided us world-class IoT expertise for our first connected home product, Culligan Connect. Their experience in UX design and app development allowed us to create a unique and high-quality product that was very responsive to our specific business needs.”
– Zach Schroeck
Product Manager, Culligan International
“Cardinal Peak has been an extension of our engineering capabilities for three generations of our products. They are knowledgeable and great to work with. They have been a long term solution for us.”
– Pete Temple
Production Manager, E.I. Medical Imaging
“We asked Cardinal Peak to help us address a number of open items related to programming our systems in production. Their engineers have a wealth of experience in IoT and embedded fields, and they helped us quickly and diligently. I’d definitely work with their team again.”
– Ryan Margoles
Founder and CTO, notion
“Cardinal Peak has a strong technology portfolio that has complemented our own expertise well. They are communicative, drive toward results quickly, and understand the appropriate level of documentation it takes to effectively convey their work. In addition, they have demonstrated adaptability by ramping up quickly and scaling their resources to our needs with little notice. Everyone there, from the partners to the staff engineers, is a pleasure to work with.”
– Jason Damori
Director of Engineering, Biamp Systems
“We asked Cardinal Peak to take ownership for an important subsystem, and they completed a very high-quality deliverable on time.”
– Matt Cowan
Chief Scientific Officer, RealD
“Cardinal Peak was a natural choice for us. They were able to develop a high-quality product, based in part on open source, and in part on intellectual property they had already developed, all for a very effective price.”
– Bruce Webber
VP Engineering, VBrick
“We completely trust Cardinal Peak to advise us on technology strategy, as well as to implement it. They are a dependable partner that ultimately makes us more competitive in the marketplace.”
– Brian Brown
President and CEO, Decatur Electronics
“We found Cardinal Peak’s team to be very knowledgeable about embedded video delivery systems. Their ability to deliver working solutions on time – combined with excellent project management skills – helped bring success not only to the product they worked on directly, but also to other projects that were outside of their scope.”
– Ralph Schmitt
VP, Product Marketing and Engineering, Kustom Signals
“Cardinal Peak has proven to be a trusted and flexible partner who has helped Harmonic to deliver reliably on our commitments to our own customers. The team at Cardinal Peak was responsive to our needs and delivered high-quality results.”
– Alex Derecho
VP Professional Services, Harmonic
“The Cardinal Peak team played an invaluable role in helping us get our first Internet of Things product to market quickly. They were up to speed in no time and provided all of the technical expertise we lacked. They interfaced seamlessly with our internal team and delivered the high-quality result we were aiming for.”
– Kevin Leadford
Vice President of Innovation, Acuity Brands Lighting
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