Custom IoT Solutions

We combine expertise across hardware, connectivity, software and product development to help businesses tackle complex challenges and develop connected products tailored to their needs.

Our Innovation Accelerator Programme builds on these capabilities, helping businesses explore new ideas, validate concepts and accelerate custom IoT projects from initial discovery through development and production.

Key benefits include:

  • Specialist IoT expertise – Access to knowledge across hardware, connectivity, software and product development.
  • Faster development – Accelerate progress from early concepts and proof of concept to product development.
  • Reduced development risk – Validate technical feasibility and business value before making larger investments.
  • Design for manufacturing – Prepare products for reliable, cost-effective production and commercial deployment.
  • A foundation for growth – Build connected products with scalability, connectivity and ongoing support in mind.
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MultiTech brings together a multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists, and technicians with expertise spanning custom product design, engineering, and manufacturing. Our capabilities include sensing, component authentication, low-energy circuit design, and the development of tailored IoT hardware, connectivity, and cloud-based applications - balancing performance, reliability, and cost to meet specific customer requirements.

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Custom Product Development for Connected Industries

MultiTech’s custom IoT capabilities span the development, design and manufacture of electronic and electromechanical systems at the heart of today’s connected products. Our expertise includes sensor technologies, product verification and integration with the wider IoT ecosystem.

We provide specialist engineering, product development and manufacturing capabilities that complement our customers’ internal resources, helping them develop innovative products and address complex technical challenges.

By bringing design expertise, engineering and manufacturing together, we help customers benefit from cost-effective production, high-quality standards and a single point of accountability. Supported by our Innovation Accelerator Programme, we can also help businesses accelerate IoT projects, from early-stage concepts and proof of concept through product development and production.

Global Manufacturing Footprint

Mounds View, USA  |  Toronto, Canada  |  Guangdong, China

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam  |  Huizhou, China  |  Penang, Malaysia

Manufacturing Capabilities

  • Electronic Component Assembly and Test (ECAT)
    • SMT, through-hole, wave, basic automated (robotic) spot soldering • COB (wire bonding) • Automated conformal coat deposition • Custom wire harness • Coil winding • Custom automated processes developed in house: laser trace cutting, programming, laser PCBA depanelization
  • Mechanical Assemblies, Molds, Dies and Casting
    • Production ranges from manual light mechanical assembly through near-lights-out custom automation • Plastic injection molding • Custom aluminum extrusion, also die casting

Procurement Services

  • BOM Management
    • Controlled through North America ERP with Engineering Management/Controls on revision, AVL, etc. • Components procurement directly by MultiTech • Quality Management disciplines
  • SPC
    • Quality controls in place for all processes • SPC typical for injection molded and other mechanical components • Electronic and electromechanical products typically 100% inspected using AOI and automated functional testing

Supplier & Vendor Management

  • Key Vendor Relationships
    Semtech (LoRaWAN), Telit & Quectel (cellular), Silicon Labs(BLE, 2.4 GHz )select global component distributors (such as Arrow, Future) and multiple custom component manufacturers
  • Relationship Based Purchasing Strategy
    Direct purchase relationship with multiple manufacturers, factories and global distributors
  • AVL Management Processes
    Controlled within material management system (ERP) including requirements for component technical approval
  • Cost Management Processes
    We regularly review product costs and have various tools to improve and manage cost increases, like getting quotes from competitors, using different components or designs, optimizing processes, among others.
  • Single-Sourced Component Management
    Advance notice of shortages and EOL through close & long-term supplier partnerships; ability to engineer priority component substitutions where necessary
  • Forecast Management
    Routine forecasting with key customers with follow-on management of safety stock levels and forward ordering for key items
Our Approach to Custom IoT Development

Why Choose Us

We have been delivering custom designed solutions for over 20+ years

Customer Focused

We help businesses strengthen their product offerings, uncover new opportunities and compete more effectively through our IoT expertise and technology capabilities. Our experience spans products deployed across global markets, supporting customers as they develop and evolve their offerings.

By drawing on field data and real-world product usage insights, we help customers better understand how their products perform in practice and identify opportunities for improvement, innovation and growth.

We also bring emerging technologies and new ideas into product development, helping customers differentiate their offerings, respond to changing market demands and stay ahead of the competition. Through our Innovation Accelerator Programme, we provide additional support to explore ideas, validate concepts and accelerate IoT projects.

One-Stop Shop

We pride ourselves in innovative solutions that provide our customers the competitive edge to be leaders within their respective markets. We specialize in low power circuit design which enables our customers battery powered products to operate up to 10 years on a single set of batteries.

  • Best-in-class sensors with purpose build ASIC & circuit design
  • Ultra low power energy circuits and energy management systems
  • Custom ASIC development
  • RFID tags & readers
  • Wireless communications – Cellular LTE Cat. 1, WiFi, LoRa, BLE, NFC
  • Wide variety of automatic user sensors including active and passive IR, capacitive, optical, audio
  • Data logging / tracking / reporting products
  • Locking/Lock out mechanisms. 

Engineering, Design, and Manufacturing

MultiTech is the ideal design and build partner for mid-to-large scale customers requiring reliable, innovative support for new product development or design optimization and IoT implementation of existing products.

Companies who require manufacturing capacity without the costly overhead will benefit from our high-volume purchasing power and our low-cost manufacturing sources around the world.

  • Purpose built solutions
  • Custom ASIC development
  • Vertically integrated with geographically diverse manufacturing base

Expertise

For more than 25 years the MultiTech Custom Solutions Group has manufactured products onshore and offshore, utilizing internal and partnered manufacturing facilities.

We create custom and proprietary solutions for our customers.

  • We offer world class PCBA manufacturing capability for high and low volume product applications
  • Low cost and high quality manufacturing both onshore and offshore
  • Manufacturing facilities are ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 13485 certified.
Just a few of our customers recent successful use cases

Custom Solutions Use Cases

Learn how some of the largest companies in the world have leveraged MultiTech’s experience and products develop innovative connected solutions.

Green Citizen Solar Water System

Providing Potable Water for Refugee Camps Across 15 countries

Radio-connected devices are crucial in the context of remote, difficult to access water production and distribution points. The UN agency requires monitoring of the entire process, from water production to distribution.

Custom IoT Solutions Group Design and Build a Better Mouse Trap

Commercial Pest Control Remote Monitoring

Commercial pest management service providers need to physically check the status of every trap and bait station at a facility. This can easily be hundreds of devices per locations. After service, the technician writes a detailed service report.

Nuclear Inventory Monitoring - A Transformation for Safety

The benefits of nuclear power are many, but downtime for nuclear plants is not an option. Unplanned downtime simply cannot happen. Any issues that may bring a plant down are tracked and all alerts are taken seriously and addressed.