The advanced technology vertical of Metron Engineering — taking projects from concept and sensor integration through PCB layout, firmware and production handoff, with Australian oversight and complete client IP ownership.
Metron Smart Solutions is the electronics and firmware team of Metron Engineering. The team brings more than 15 years of combined experience in end-to-end product development and manufacturing, including medical device development.
Electronic product development demands documented design decisions and verification against written criteria. The team applies that discipline to every board and firmware build: component choices are recorded with their reasoning, designs are reviewed before fabrication, boards are issued with 3D STEP models for enclosure fit, and each release is demonstrated on the target hardware.
Six services, two for each capability. Each has a defined deliverable, a fixed scope and written acceptance criteria agreed before work starts.
An annotated review of your schematic and layout before you pay for fabrication. Every finding is ranked critical, major or minor with a recommended fix, followed by a go or no-go. One re-check of the corrected design is included.
Low-level bring-up code verifying power, clocks, memory and peripherals, plus a PC or Android test tool that reports pass or fail against your manufacturing criteria.
A working bench proof of concept for the one core function you need proven, with a written feasibility verdict, component selection, test results against your success criteria, schematics and code.
Your working breadboard turned into a fabrication-ready board. Altium project, fabrication files, BOM, assembly drawing, 3D STEP model and fab notes, DRC-clean against your named fabricator's rules.
Complete, layered firmware for hardware you already have: hardware abstraction, diagnostics, device control and application layers. Delivered in milestones and tested on the target hardware.
One team for the whole system: architecture, fabrication-ready PCBs, firmware for the agreed core features, connectivity, a Figma interface prototype and a demonstrated working prototype. Delivered in milestones.
Electronics work follows the same five delivery stages as our engineering work, with the commercial terms fixed at the start.
A short scoping call defines the question to be answered or the features to be delivered. Scope, timeline and acceptance criteria are agreed in writing before work starts.
Each service is accepted against written criteria, for example DRC-clean files, nets and pins matched to the proof of concept, or agreed functions demonstrated on the target hardware.
Design ownership transfers to the client on final payment: schematics, PCB source, firmware source and production files.
One revision round is included in each service, or one per milestone on staged work. Design errors on our side are corrected at no charge.
EMC and certification testing, cloud back ends, production mobile app builds and mass production are outside these services. Boards are designed with EMI/ESD and manufacturability in mind, and compliance testing is carried out by accredited third-party laboratories.
Three developments from the professional experience of our Smart Solutions team, one for each capability. Company and product names are withheld.
Motherboard for a medical laboratory instrument, reading five RTD channels from each sensing IC. Designed in Altium to meet CE and EMI requirements, and taken from concept to production-ready in 3 months.
Two 60-unit commercial production batches built and calibrated.
Four-layer firmware for a laboratory thermometer and its sensor adapter, with a USB host driver, CRC-checked communication protocol, bootloader and calibration support for up to 20 sensors.
10+ firmware releases across 6 production batches, supporting 300+ calibrated sensors.
Sensor hardware, BLE firmware and mobile app developed as one system: a 3.5 × 3.5 cm board that worked on its first revision, a custom BLE protocol supporting 20+ sensors, and an app MVP in about 2 months.
100+ units, 5+ firmware and 5+ app releases across 2 production batches.
These developments were completed by team members before joining, and outside of, Metron Engineering Services Pty Ltd. They demonstrate the team's electronics and firmware capability.