When user testing of the Gen 1 Navicular Foot Drop device identified several areas of improvement, Mateligent’s customer charged the company with upgrading its original electronics. For this redesign, Mateligent was charged with:
- Design and source an upgraded printed circuit board assembly (PCBA).
- Increase battery life
- Improve Bluetooth communication
- Decreased size
- Decreased cost
- Produce functioning prototypes of the device
- Upgrade firmware to meet new system requirements
- Coordinate system improvements among several vendors to assure optimal system integration.
Mateligent succeeded in delivering a simplified design that reduced user complexity, improved system performance and reduced product costs. Navigraff COO Frederik Jakobsen recalled the history with Mateligent; ‘we originally worked with the Mateligent team as a sensor supplier, but their work stood out, and we were so impressed with their engineering skills and professional, on-time way of doing business. So, when the opportunity came for our Gen 2.0 product, Mateligent was the natural choice. They structured the project in a way that minimized technical risks and only asked us to make investments when they knew the probability of success was very high.” Jakobsen concluded his comments by adding ‘Mateligent has earned every piece of their role as a strategic supplier to our company and is very instrumental in the quality and sophistication of the device we now have.”
