Internet-Connected Smart Products
Barr Group is in the business of designing reliable and secure computers and we have software engineers with hands-on experience designing a wide variety of mass-market Internet-connected products that network via 802.11 WiFi, RFID, NFC, Bluetooth (including BLE), Zigbee, cellular, and M2M. For example:
- Smart TVs and smart speakers from Google, Amazon, and Apple
- Set-top boxes for cable and satellite television
- Wearable computers such as fitness trackers and heart-rate monitors
- Smart home thermostats, doorbells, sensors, and LED light bulbs
- Network LAN/WAN routers, hubs, and switches
- Edge computing devices and routers for cloud computing
- Embedded systems and embedded software ("firmware")
Barr Group's engineers are familiar with all of the major technologies used to design connected devices including the Google Cloud IoT, Amazon AWS IoT Core, and Microsoft Azure IoT frameworks, Linux and real-time (RTOS) operating systems, and also the programming languages that are used, such as assembly, C, and C++. And we are equally comfortable reviewing electronic circuits and schematic drawings.
Expert Witness Services
Barr Group's connected device experts support plaintiffs and defendants in litigation in U.S. District Courts, at the International Trade Commission (ITC), and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Our services include:
- Technical assistance with drafting of discovery requests
- Software and firmware source code review and analysis
- Source code comparisons for copyright and trade secret theft
- Prior art review for patent invalidity
- Analysis of electronics and related design documents
- Reverse engineering, including disassembly of binary code
- Forensic analysis, including electronic data recovery
- Expert reports, declarations, and witness statements
- Testimony at deposition, oral hearings, and trials
Barr Group has a demonstrated ability to quickly activate one or more code reviewers to match the size, scope, and complexity of any project.
Further Reading
- Security and the IoT
- How to Prioritize RTOS Tasks (and Why It Matters)
- Introduction to Rate Monotonic Scheduling
- Embedded C Coding Standard
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Firmware and IoT Expert Witness List
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Research engineer with three decades of technical leadership in wireless data compression, low-bandwidth network optimization, and embedded telecommunications…
Senior wireless networking consultant with over two decades of expertise in small cell and femtocell network design, 3GPP/3GPP2 standards, and cellular-Wi-Fi…
A seasoned executive and engineer with 35+ years in consumer electronics product development, this expert specializes in wireless audio systems, Bluetooth…
Senior expert with over four decades of specialized experience in video game software development, console game system reverse engineering, and advergaming…
Senior engineer and signal processing specialist with over three decades of experience designing and implementing advanced DSP systems spanning defense,…
Senior software engineer with over 30 years of experience in telecommunications security, software reverse engineering, and cybersecurity analysis. This expert…
Veteran firmware engineer with 35+ years of experience in storage systems architecture and embedded controller design. This expert specializes in hard disk drive…
This expert is a speech recognition architect and natural language processing specialist with nearly 20 years of experience developing dialogue systems and…
Chartered engineer and world-recognized authority in FPGA architecture and System-on-Chip design for mission-critical aerospace, defense, and space applications,…
Professor and optical engineer with over 30 years of specialized expertise in solid-state lighting systems, unmanned aerial vehicle design, and embedded control…