Pebble Bay To Help Clients Get More from Existing and Legacy Embedded Systems

“What we are offering, is the opportunity for companies with established products to generate more revenue or open up new opportunities,” Ian Willats, Managing Director at Pebble Bay. “This might be through enhanced performance and functionality, or through reduced build costs, or maybe even by helping to accelerate the development of new products.”

UK-based Pebble Bay is a business that helps companies build and improve all kinds of products based on microprocessors. Since the company's launch five years ago, Pebble Bay has become a respected leader in the development of board support packages and hardware-software interfacing, working with companies around the world. With extensive knowledge and experience of a broad range of RTOSes, Linux and Windows based OSes and a thorough understanding of microprocessor-based hardware; the Pebble Bay team has become a valuable resource to the worldwide embedded systems industry.

“In most instances we work alongside existing engineering teams,” said Ian Willats. “We find that we are able to bring a fresh perspective to existing projects, and some additional understanding and experiences.

As we tend to work on the lower level code and hardware, our services can free up engineers to focus on the higher level application code, the code that actually differentiates the product in the marketplace. In this way, we can help accelerate critical new product development, therefore enhancing our customers’ commercial performance. ”

Pebble Bay undertake short-term software projects such as identifying and fixing bottlenecks, adding new functionality, tracking down long term bugs and refactoring troublesome code. Pebble Bay also undertake the redesign of hardware using the latest parts to reduce cost and avoid obsolescence, as well as developing complete software/hardware platforms for further product development.

“Using the services of consultants such ourselves should not be viewed as big expense,” said Ian Willats. “We understand the commercial reality of the markets that our clients operate in, so we work closely with them to help them succeed and to ensure that our own contribution is fully viable. For anyone who wishes to explore using external support for embedded system development, we are always pleased to hear from them and happy to explain how we can help.”