Solutions
A solution starts from a business problem rather than a capability, and assembles products plus integration to reach an outcome. These are the nineteen Faststream has done before — which is useful mainly because it means somebody has already made the costly mistakes on someone else’s programme.
If the power budget will not close, start at Semiconductor. If a defect keeps escaping, start at Industrial AI. If coverage is the problem, start at Wireless.
Three routes to silicon: a full custom programme, a conversion of a design already validated on FPGA, or licensed IP dropped into your SoC. The cheapest of the three is frequently the right one.
Semiconductor → SOLUTION 02Inspection, maintenance prediction and site analytics that integrate with the PLC that already runs the line and the maintenance system that already holds the work orders.
Industrial AI → SOLUTION 03Electronics, firmware, connectivity, certification and cloud — including the parts nobody demonstrates, like what happens to ten thousand units when a release is wrong.
Connected Products → SOLUTION 04Two systems produce two datasets with a gap in the middle, and the gap is exactly where loss and delay happen. One system with a continuity layer produces one record.
Asset Tracking → SOLUTION 05Telematics, ADAS and in-cab sensing designed for load dump, vibration, temperature extremes and coverage that disappears in tunnels — none exotic, all needing to be designed for.
Automotive & Mobility → SOLUTION 06Distributed, unpowered, hard to reach and expected to last a decade — a combination that invalidates most consumer IoT assumptions on the first page of the specification.
Smart Infrastructure → SOLUTION 07Silicon-rooted identity, verified boot and secure provisioning. Smart card is the most visible application; secure microcontrollers, industrial controllers and edge attestation are the rest.
Secure Identity → SOLUTION 08Occupancy, consumable levels, bin fill and air quality reported in real time replace a timetable with demand. Usually fewer cleaning hours and a better satisfaction score, because the hours land where they are needed. No cameras, ever.
Smart Washrooms → SOLUTION 09It records that volume left the tank, not which vessel received it — and that gap is where every loss lives. Identity at the nozzle, tank level telemetry and temperature-compensated reconciliation turn a variance column into a specific exception.
Fuel Management → SOLUTION 10Private 5G, O-RAN radio units, software-defined radio and non-terrestrial links — carried under one management plane rather than as a fourth network to operate.
Wireless & Satellite → SOLUTION 11Occupancy, air quality and energy per zone replace a timetable set when the building opened. The largest saving in most estates is not plant efficiency — it is conditioning space nobody is using.
Smart Buildings → SOLUTION 12Man-down, lone worker, gas exposure, plant proximity and fitness for duty. All solvable with existing sensing; all defeated by a false-alarm rate the response team cannot sustain.
Worker Safety → SOLUTION 13String-level telemetry against an irradiance reference separates soiling from shading from degradation — the difference between a cleaning crew and a warranty claim.
Energy Monitoring → SOLUTION 14Not a harder measurement problem than industrial sensing — a harder deployment problem. Soil, irrigation, livestock and machinery over LoRaWAN and satellite.
Smart Agriculture → SOLUTION 15Waste, water, lighting and environment reported from the asset. The saving is rarely the sensor — it is the vehicle that no longer drives a round to collect nothing.
Smart City → SOLUTION 16Obstruction, trespass and crossing monitoring in darkness and weather. The hard part is not detection — it is telling a person from a fox reliably enough that the railway keeps the system switched on.
LiDAR Rail Safety → SOLUTION 17A device that signs whatever the host asks has moved the key and kept the vulnerability. Keys generated on-device, a display the holder can trust, and tamper evidence that survives the supply chain.
Hardware Wallet → SOLUTION 18Presenting parts in a known orientation at rate is where the schedule goes. So is proving an operation happened rather than that a machine was told to perform it.
Assembly Automation → SOLUTION 19Perception runs on board because it must. The interesting engineering is at the boundary — handover, teleoperation, and what the platform does when the link goes.
Autonomous Platforms →The specific systems, mapped to the solution area they belong to and the technologies they rest on.
| Application | Solution area | Key technologies |
|---|---|---|
| AI visual inspection and quality automation | Industrial AI | Machine vision, edge AI, PLC integration |
| Asset tracking with cellular and satellite continuity | Asset Tracking | LTE-M, NB-IoT, NTN, GNSS |
| Item-level tracking indoors | Asset Tracking | BLE, UWB, RFID |
| Fleet management and telematics | Automotive & Mobility / Fuel | Cellular, GNSS, CAN |
| Fuel management and theft prevention | Fuel Management | NFC nozzle identity, tank level, reconciliation |
| NFC fuel tank identification and dispensing | Fuel Management | NFC, embedded control, cloud |
| Cloud-connected mobile fuel dispenser | Fuel Management | Embedded control, metering, connectivity |
| LiDAR railway track safety | LiDAR Rail Safety | LiDAR, sensor fusion, edge inference |
| Drones, delivery robots and AMRs | Autonomous Platforms | Edge AI, link handover, teleoperation, degraded mode |
| Assembly line automation and verification | Assembly Automation | Vision-guided picking, torque-angle, traceability |
| Hardware wallet and secure key devices | Hardware Wallet | Secure element, verified boot, trusted display |
| Smart washroom and facility sensing | Smart Infrastructure | Occupancy, consumables, air quality, LoRaWAN |
| Cloud-connected water management | Smart City | District metering, night-flow analysis |
| Waste management and bin fill monitoring | Smart City | Ultrasonic level, LoRaWAN, routing |
| Solar panel and string-level monitoring | Energy Monitoring | DC measurement, irradiance reference |
| Smart workspace and desk utilisation | Smart Buildings | Occupancy, CO2, BACnet integration |
| Smart air conditioner controller | Smart Buildings | Retrofit infrared control, state inference |
| Connected smart home appliances | Smart Buildings | Connectivity, provisioning, OTA, cloud |
| Smart worker safety and wearables | Worker Safety | Man-down, UWB proximity, gas exposure |
| Connected breathalyser | Worker Safety | Sensing, embedded, BLE, cloud |
| Smart agriculture and precision irrigation | Smart Agriculture | Soil moisture, LoRaWAN, valve control |
| Driver fatigue and monitoring | Automotive & Mobility | Infrared imaging, edge AI |
| Smart card SoC and secure identity silicon | Secure Identity | Secure ASIC, root of trust |
| Private 5G, O-RAN and wireless systems | Wireless & Satellite | O-RAN RU IP, DFE, multi-connectivity |
| Satellite modem and SDR | Wireless & Satellite | FPGA, signal processing |
| Predictive maintenance | Industrial AI | Vibration, thermal, current analytics |
| Connected medical and industrial products | Connected Products | Embedded, regulatory, cloud |
A medical device and an industrial controller may share a microcontroller and share almost nothing else. The regulatory path, qualification burden, service life and failure consequence are what shape the design.
A platform is a capability family — the domain expertise Faststream maintains. A solution starts from a business problem and assembles products and integration to reach a defined outcome. A buyer with a specification wants a product page; a buyer with a problem wants a solution page.
Either. Some customers engage for a specific gap — the RF front end, the vision cell, the cloud layer. Others hand over the whole programme from architecture to manufacture.
Whichever matches the binding constraint. If the power budget will not close, start at Semiconductor. If a defect keeps escaping inspection, start at Industrial AI. If coverage is the problem, start at Wireless and Satellite.
Tell us the specification, the constraint and the deadline. Programmes that cross silicon, radio, embedded and AI are where Faststream is strongest.