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:
Professor of electrical and computer engineering and division director of a center for national security technology…
Former adjunct professor of electrical engineering and consultant with more than two decades of hands-on industry…
Technology and business consultant with more than three decades of experience in the development and implementation of new digital media…
Physicist with over three decades of industry experience and a prolific innovator in electro-optical systems who invented a new type of optical microscopy, co…
Consultant and subject matter expert in electronic payment systems with over three decades of experience with financial…
Computer engineer with over fifteen years of hands-on experience in all phases of product engineering including system architecture, electronics design, software…
Former adjunct professor of computer engineering with more than twenty-five years of experience in the software industry, including over a decade spent…
Computer scientist educated at a leading research university, experienced in analyzing, architecting, designing, developing and optimizing service provider and…
Adjunct professor of computer science with two decades of industry experience in software engineering and all phases of the software development life cycle.…
Professor of computer science and engineering with specialized technical expertise in operating systems, computer security, wireless communications, and network…