Techontario offers assistance to its clients by employing its experience, competence, responsiveness and understanding of the requirements of the mass consumer goods market. The time-to-market and customer service are essential on this highly competitive market: the brand image of the company and its products is at stake. Our engineers collaborate with the client's teams during all stages of product development, testing and maintenance in order to live up to these requirements.
The mass consumer electronics market has never reached such a high level: it is estimated at 964 billion dollars (i.e. 726 billion euros) in 2011. This means that it will go up by 10% as compared to 2010 (91 billion dollars) mainly in developed countries, unlike in 2010 when emerging countries, from Africa in particular, had benefited from the growth. The products that will benefit from this increase the most are smartphones (322 million units), laptops (220 million units), tablets (iPad sales will double, reaching 30 million units) and flat screens (197 million units), without mentioning all the related accessories, software applications and equipment: hands-free telephone kit, synchronization applications, product-specific software, internet box, multimedia platform etc. In 2011, the Western European market will register the most significant increase, by 23% (i.e. an additional 15.8 billion euros).
Our Expertise
Techontario provides its customers with assistance during the entire life cycle of their products, by offering them competence centers for managing their equipment:
- Wireless connection equipment: our customers can benefit from our engineers' experience by integrating into their products the different types of wireless connection available on the market:
- Bluetooth has become a standard feature, as it is integrated in almost 1.3 billion devices worldwide, 800 million of which are mobile Phones. It enables to connect two devices like a mobile phone to a pair of loudspeakers, a hands-free kit to a car, a wireless headset etc.
- WiFi has also become a standard feature, as it allows to make point-to-point connections (connection to a shared hard disk, a printer, a drone etc.) or to a hotspot in order to be connected to a network (internet through an ADSL box, for instance).
- Radio frequency (RF) is more and more used in networks which do not require an interconnection with other solutions. Protocols are chosen according to the use and objective of the solution (e.g.: use of the Wavenis or Zigbee protocol in order to extend equipment battery life).
- Mobile equipment: our engineers perform actions on all component layers, from design to maintenance or the development of applications dedicated to platforms such as:
- Smartphones on platforms like iOS, Symbian, Android, Windows Phone, RIM etc.
- Tablets on platforms iOS, Android, WebOS platforms
- Laptops on Windows and Linux platforms
- Box-type equipment: our teams take over the hosting of the box in order to be able to recreate as a simulation and/or reproduce in a real environment all the conditions of use.
Our Services
- Design associated with assistance in drafting the requirements, the architecture, and in designing the different electronic modules that make up the equipment.
- Embedded development, from firmware to embedded software, including all layers (OS, drivers, connectors etc.).
- Software and hardware integration from the lower layer to the applications.
- Tests and validation by drafting and executing plans and test cases (functional tests, configuration tests, fault tolerance tests, integration tests, non-regression tests, load tests etc.) and by suggesting the necessary automation upgrades in order to save time and gain in regularity.
- Third-party application maintenance: analyzing and solving bugs, processing upgrades.
