Complimentary Personalized 
Technical Assessment

Developing embedded and connected devices is complex. From architecting a robust system and designing an intuitive UX to selecting the right platform and hardware, ensuring cybersecurity, and meeting regulatory requirements — every decision matters. To help you build better, more secure applications, ICS offers a no-cost, no-commitment technical assessment focused on key aspects of your project.

This complimentary session is your opportunity to get answers to challenging technical questions, uncover hidden issues, and receive expert feedback from seasoned software engineers who have collectively delivered hundreds of successful projects.

Select Your Area of Focus

Qt Architecture Review

Our engineering team can help you explore the strengths and weaknesses of your current architecture and UI/UX, and offer guidance for potential improvements.

  • Architectural documents, code artifacts and ideas
  •  Effective ways to structure and build your new system
  • Development approaches that separate the business logic from the UI
  • Qt/QML best practices Hardware and OS

Platform Services

We offer embedded software solutions to help you accelerate development of high-quality connected devices.

  • Commercial and Open Source Embedded Linux
  • Real-time operating systems (RTOS)
  • Multicore/multiOS
  • Android, Yocto, ROS2
  • Product development
  • Strategies to reduce boot time, integrate communication stacks (i.e. Bluetooth)

UX Design

Our UX design professionals understand not only beauty and usability but underlying development challenges, and can assist you.

  • UX heuristic and existing system evaluation
  • Product vision and UX strategy
  • Usability research and user testing
  • Information architecture and functional flows
  • Wireframing
  • Prototyping
  • Visual and motion design
  • UX-focused project management and QA 

Cybersecurity

Our cybersecurity experts can help you incorporate secure practices into your software development lifecycle.

  • User authentication and credential management; key and certificate management
  • Software update, secure boot and data encryption (at rest and in transit)
  • Personal information disclosure risk
  • Firewall, potential for side-channel attacks, vulnerabilities of third-party software components
  • Areas of risk that can lead to patient harm
  • PHI/HIPAA disclosure risk

Regulatory

Our regulatory experts provide insight to help you reduce risk by enhancing usability and limiting potential for human error while adhering to all regulatory mandates.

  • Cost-effective medical device development for PreMarket Notification (Class II, 510(k)) and PreMarket Approval (Class III)
  • ISO 13485-compliant software development processes
  • Support for IEC 62304 SDLC
  • Support for ISO 14971 hazard analysis and dFMEA
  • IEC 62366 asset development
  • CLIA-waived device development

Cloud

To ensure you’re positioned to make the most of your IoT investment, our certified experts will review your cloud strategy, identify concerns and offer guidance in critical areas.

  • Cloud-native development for full stack web applications
  • Leveraging AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
  • IoT fleet management, OTA firmware updates, security, MCU integration
  • Application modernization and deployment
  • Serverless, microservice-driven SaaS and PaaS
  • Strategic infrastructure modernization

Why Choose ICS

With deep expertise in embedded systems, UX design and full-lifecycle software development, ICS has helped leading companies build successful products across medtech, industrial and other high-reliability markets. When you choose ICS, you gain more than technical expertise — you gain a trusted partner dedicated to strengthening your technology foundation, optimizing your product performance, and helping your team bring exceptional, secure applications to life faster and with greater confidence.

How It Works

For your customized assessment, select an area of focus and we’ll connect you with a member of our expert team. During your session, we’ll review your current architecture, design plans and code base, offering targeted recommendations or alternative strategies where appropriate. As time allows, we’ll tackle essential questions, such as whether your operating system is optimal for your application or what your exposure might be to side-channel attacks.

Afterward, you’ll receive a detailed report summarizing key insights, findings and actionable next steps. The knowledge you gain provides independent validation of internal decisions and helps you mitigate risk when developing or launching a new application on a new platform.