Hardware SoftwareStudio

We design hardware.
We build software.
We ship _

IonikHub is a studio working at both ends of the stack — embedded firmware, IoT fleets and smart devices on one side; SaaS, mobile apps and AI on the other. One team, both worlds.

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01 / Hardware
IoT · Embedded · Smart Devices
02 / Software
SaaS · Mobile · AI
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01 — Services

Two pillars. One studio.

We design and ship software products and the connected hardware that powers them — under one roof, with one team that talks to itself.

Software Pillar · 09 capabilities

SaaS Platforms

Multi-tenant products with billing, auth, RBAC, and usage analytics — built to scale from day one.

Web Applications

Performant, accessible web apps engineered with modern frameworks and edge delivery.

Mobile Apps · iOS & Android

Native-feel cross-platform apps with offline-first sync and beautiful UX.

AI / ML Integration

LLM agents, vision pipelines, RAG systems, and predictive models embedded in your product.

Custom Business Software

Internal tools, dashboards, and automations that replace spreadsheets and chaos.

Design Systems & UX

Token-driven design systems, motion language, and prototypes your team can keep building on.

Cybersecurity & Audits

Threat modelling, pen-testing, secrets hygiene, SOC 2 readiness, and incident response playbooks.

DevOps & Cloud

Infra-as-code on AWS, GCP, Azure. CI/CD pipelines, observability, cost guardrails.

API & Integrations

GraphQL/REST gateways, webhooks, third-party integrations, and partner-ready public APIs.

Hardware Pillar · 06 capabilities

IoT Architecture

End-to-end device fleets — provisioning, OTA updates, telemetry, dashboards, and SIM management.

Embedded Systems

Firmware in C / C++ / Rust on STM32, ESP32, nRF52, and custom silicon — with rigorous QA.

Smart Device Development

From PCB to enclosure: industrial design, certification, DFM, and pilot manufacturing.

Sensor Networks

Low-power LoRa / BLE / Zigbee meshes for agriculture, logistics, energy, and industry.

Hardware-Software Integration

Where signals become insight — bridging firmware, cloud, and intelligent UX in one team.

Prototyping & Manufacturing

Bench-to-batch builds. Vetted CMs across three continents, supply-chain due diligence included.

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02 — Hardware lab

Atoms, not just bits.

From schematic to certification. We design the boards, write the firmware, and operate the fleets — so the device that lands on a customer's desk behaves like a finished product, not a prototype.

Custom PCB design
2 to 8-layer, EMC-compliant
MCU firmware
ESP32, STM32, nRF52, RP2040
Sensor integration
vision, LiDAR, IMU, environmental
Wireless stacks
BLE, LoRa, Zigbee, Wi-Fi 6, Cellular
Power engineering
low-power · solar · Li-ion safety
Fleet OTA & telemetry
secure provisioning, A/B updates
03 — IoT · Live demo

A connected fleet, in your browser.

This is a real Three.js scene of a typical IonikHub deployment. Hover any device to inspect it. Click the central gateway to send a data pulse.

Drag to orbit · Hover devices · Click the hub
● live · 6 devices · 1 gateway
v0.1 · render: webgl
Sensor

Soil, air, vibration, current — low-power telemetry over LoRa or BLE.

Camera

Edge-ML enabled vision modules for object, defect and presence detection.

Controller

Industrial PLC-grade boards bridging legacy machines to the cloud.

Beacon

Mesh-networked location & event beacons for indoor environments.

Wearable

Compact BLE 5 devices for health, safety and field-team coordination.

04 — Selected Work

Products that ship.

Real customers, real revenue, real devices in the field. Filter by discipline.

SaaS
ReactNode.jsPostgresAWS
SaaSHelix Logistics

Helix — Logistics SaaS

Multi-tenant operations platform with real-time tracking, billing, and analytics.

Impact
40+
tenants live
Impact
63%
faster dispatch
IoT
ESP32LoRaMQTTPython
IoTTerraSense Agritech

TerraSense — Smart Agriculture

Solar-powered LoRa sensor network monitoring soil, weather, and irrigation across 12,000 hectares.

Impact
12k
hectares covered
Impact
30%
less water used
AI
React NativeCoreMLTensorFlowSwift
AILumen Health

Lumen — AI Wellness Coach

On-device LLM coach delivering personalized wellness guidance with full offline capability.

Impact
180k
MAU at launch
Impact
4.8★
App Store rating
Hardware
STM32RustCAN busEdge ML
HardwareForge Manufacturing

ForgeCtrl — Industrial Controller

Real-time PLC replacement with edge ML for predictive maintenance on factory presses.

Impact
92%
downtime reduction
Impact
$1.2M
annual savings
Mobile
SwiftKotlinGraphQLPlaid
MobilePulse Financial

Pulse — Mobile Banking

Native iOS/Android app with biometric auth, instant transfers, and rich animation throughout.

Impact
1.4M
downloads · year 1
Impact
99.99%
auth uptime
AI
PythonPyTorchJetsonROS2
AISynapse Robotics

Synapse — Vision AI Platform

Real-time object detection pipeline for warehouse robots with custom-trained YOLO models.

Impact
47ms
p95 inference
Impact
3.2×
throughput gain
Web
Next.jsSanityVercelGA4
WebAtlas Studios

Atlas — Marketing Web Platform

Headless CMS-driven marketing site with localisation, A/B testing, and 99 Lighthouse scores.

Impact
+2.1×
conversion lift
Impact
12
languages live
Hardware
ZigbeeMatterESP32-S3Rust
HardwareNimbus Living

Nimbus — Smart Home Gateway

Matter-ready home gateway with on-device routines, voice control, and OTA fleet updates.

Impact
65k
devices in field
Impact
0
field recalls
SaaS
ReactStripePostgresGCP
SaaSLedger Co

Ledger — Multi-tenant Accounting SaaS

Self-serve accounting SaaS with usage-based billing, audit trail, and CSV-to-API onboarding.

Impact
$8M ARR
in 18 months
Impact
94
NPS
05 — Testimonials

What partners say after we ship.

A studio is only as good as the products it leaves behind. Here are a few of the teams we've built with.

"IonikHub shipped our hardware and the SaaS in the same release cycle. We've never had that kind of cohesion from an outside team."
AO
Amaka Okafor
VP Product · Helix Logistics
"They walked our factory floor before they wrote a line of code. Six months later we have a real product in real environments."
MR
Marcus Reinholt
CTO · Forge Manufacturing
"What sold us was the founder program. They invested engineering hours we couldn't pay for, and they treated us like a peer, not a charity case."
PS
Priya Subramanian
Founder · Lumen Health
"Our LoRa network has been live in 12,000 hectares for two years with zero on-site visits. Their OTA pipeline is unreal."
DM
David Mensah
Head of Engineering · TerraSense Agritech
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06 — Industries

Where our work lives.

Eight verticals where we've shipped real products — in fields, factories, clinics, vehicles, and pockets.

Agriculture
Precision sensors, irrigation, fleet ops
Manufacturing
PLC replacement, predictive maintenance
Health & wellness
On-device AI, regulated software
Logistics
Asset tracking, marketplace SaaS
Fintech
Mobile banking, KYC, payments
Retail & D2C
Smart kiosks, commerce platforms
Education
Interactive learning hardware + LMS
Energy
Smart metering, grid telemetry
07 — Trust & quality

Built to be trusted in production.

Hardware that lives in the field for years. Software that handles real traffic, real money, and real privacy obligations.

Security by default

Threat-modelled at design time. SOC 2-aligned controls, signed firmware, secure boot, and encrypted telemetry on every device we ship.

Certifications

FCC · CE · RoHS · UKCA pathways for hardware. GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI alignment for software when the engagement requires it.

Data ownership

Your data, your infrastructure. We deploy into your cloud accounts and hand over the keys. No lock-in, no quiet vendoring.

Reliability engineering

SLOs, observability, and on-call rotations baked in. We run the platforms we build until your team is ready to take over.

Sustainable hardware

Repair-friendly designs, recyclable enclosures, and sourcing audited for conflict minerals. Built to last beyond a single release.

Global delivery

Manufacturing partners in three continents. CDN-fronted software in 200+ regions. Localisation in 12 languages.

04 — Process

How a project actually moves.

No 80-page proposals. Four phases, weekly demos, one direct line.

01 / Phase

Discover

We sit with your team, walk the factory floor, or sketch the SaaS on a wall. Constraints, users, KPIs.

Output
Scope, success metrics, risks.
02 / Phase

Prototype

Within weeks: a living web prototype, a breadboard with sensors, or both — wired together end-to-end.

Output
Working artefact, not a deck.
03 / Phase

Engineer

Production-grade firmware, certified hardware, scalable cloud, mobile clients. Built for the next 5 years.

Output
Code, schematics, infra-as-code.
04 / Phase

Ship & operate

We launch, monitor, and iterate. OTA updates for devices, CI/CD for software, on-call when it matters.

Output
Live product. Real users.
05 — Philosophy

We build slowly,
on purpose.

Most studios pick a side. Software shops outsource hardware to a contract manufacturer. Hardware shops bolt on a brittle dashboard at the end. The seam shows in every product that comes out the door.

IonikHub exists because that seam shouldn't be there. The same engineers who write your firmware understand your billing model. The team designing your PCB is in the same standup as the team shipping your mobile app. Decisions get made once, in one room.

And we're patient with the things that matter: certifications, test coverage, accessibility, the unglamorous infrastructure that decides whether a product survives its first 10,000 users — or its first cold morning in the field.

07
Years operating
42
Products shipped
9
Countries deployed
06 — Questions

Things people ask first.

Yes. Many engagements are pure SaaS or pure embedded. The studio's edge is that the same team can move fluidly between them when your product needs both.

Distributed core team with a hardware lab. We work in tight, weekly cycles with a single point-of-contact for your team — async by default, on-site when it matters.

A fixed share of every project funds two things: charitable causes we vet quarterly, and reduced-rate engineering for early-stage founders who can't yet pay market.

You do. Standard contracts assign all work-product to the client. We retain rights only to internal libraries and tooling that pre-date the engagement.

A discovery sprint is 1–2 weeks. A first shippable prototype: 4–8 weeks. A full production launch — depending on hardware certification — typically 3–9 months.

Every project · ripples outward
08 — IonikHub Foundation

Every project
fuels impact.

A percentage of every earning supports charitable causes and empowers founders to build their ideas without financial barriers. We believe technology — and the wealth it creates — should ripple outward.

10%
of revenue donated
24+
founders supported
37
projects funded
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10 — Get in touch

Two ways to start a conversation.

Hiring us for a project? Take the left form. Have an idea you want validated or built through the IonikHub Founder Program? Take the right. Either way — a real engineer reads every submission.

  • Reduced-rate development

    Build at 30–60% below market rate when your idea aligns with our mission.

  • Mentorship from operators

    Direct access to engineers and founders who've shipped at scale.

  • Revenue-share models

    Trade upfront cost for partnership. We win when you win.

Hire the studio

For teams ready to commission hardware, software, or both.

Reply within one business day · routed to engineering

09 — Contact

Have a project?
Talk to a human.

No sales funnel. No discovery dance. The first email you send lands in an engineer's inbox, and you'll usually hear back within a day.

Email
hello@ionikhub.com
Replies within one business day · routed to engineering, not sales.
Discovery call
Book a 30-min intro
Free, no commitment. Bring a sketch, a spec, or a problem.
Hardware lab
Lagos · Berlin
Software studio
Distributed · 9 timezones