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IoT enclosure and industrial design

IoT enclosure design — antenna keep-out, gasket, and battery as one assembly with the radio.

Enclosures for wall, ceiling, DIN, pole, and outdoor IoT nodes. Antenna window, gasket, and battery holder are designed as one assembly with the radio — not a pretty box that kills range. Print and CNC before anyone cuts steel.

What we do

Appearance & CMF

Form, color, texture, and logo marks that fit a commercial product — not a lab box with a sticker.

Mechanical structure

Wall, DIN, pole, handheld, and outdoor mounts. Gaskets, snaps, and screw bosses designed around the PCB and battery.

Rapid prototypes

3D-printed appearance models and CNC functional housings so fit, RF, and assembly get proven before tooling.

Tooling & injection molding

Mold-ready files and a path to production plastics once the design is frozen. Electronics and housing agree before steel is cut.

How this stage looks

The drawing, then the floor that proves it.

3D print, CNC, steel tool, and molded housing of the same part
3D print, CNC, steel tool, and molded housing of the same part

05 · Industrial design

The outside and the inside are one assembly

Appearance and CMF, then structure: gasket, snaps, battery holder, antenna window. A pretty box that kills range is not a product.

You leave with: 3D models, 2D, CMF spec

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3D print

A model you can hold before CNC

Appearance and snap-fit checks. Marketing can see CMF. Engineering can see whether the antenna window is still a window.

Public 3D-print workstation with functional prototypes
Svitlana Lozova / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Printed, machined, tooled, and molded versions of one housing
Printed, machined, tooled, and molded versions of one housing
CNC cutting a functional enclosure
CNC cutting a functional enclosure

CNC

Functional housings that take a gasket and a board

Machined parts for RF, IP joints, and screw bosses. This is the last chance to move a wall one millimeter.

07 · Tooling & molding

When the design is frozen, we tool it

Mold-ready files, cavity and gate planned with the assembly line in mind. Electronics and housing already agree — that is why the steel does not come first.

You leave with: Tooling records and FAI

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Injection-molded housings after the design freeze
Injection-molded housings after the design freeze

Stack we work with

Process: Appearance · structure · hand model · tool · mold
Materials: ABS · PC · ASA · aluminum

What you get

  • 3D models
  • 2D drawings
  • CMF spec
  • Tooling records
  • FAI reports

You own every design file — at every milestone, not just at the end.

What this looks like on a real product

Anonymous project notes — problem, what we did, what the partner kept. No customer names.

CNC enclosure cut for an outdoor sensor node

Outdoor node — enclosure vs antenna

Problem. An outdoor environmental node needed IP-rated housing. The first ID concept boxed the antenna and killed range.

What we did. Electronics and industrial design sat in one review: antenna keep-out, gasket, and wall thickness. 3D print for feel, CNC for RF and fit, then mold-ready CAD.

What they kept. A housing that still meets the radio budget. The partner owns the CAD, keep-out drawing, and DFM notes.

Functional test of wireless fire and life-safety hardware

Smoke / CO hardware for a channel brand

Problem. A life-safety reseller needed their name on a battery LoRaWAN smoke/CO device, with CE and EN 14604 scoped for the market — not a generic box.

What we did. Started from the fire-alarm product line. Brand, CMF, pack-out, and alarm payload mapped to their monitoring stack. Marks planned per SKU, not as a company stamp.

What they kept. Pilot units under their brand, plus a certification plan they can take to the next market.

Ceiling housings for indoor air-quality LoRaWAN sensors

Ceiling IAQ that a BMS can actually parse

Problem. A building team had wireless CO₂ / VOC sensors that joined a network but arrived as undocumented bytes.

What we did. IAQ platform firmware with a published uplink map (CO₂, VOC, temperature, humidity, status) and configurable intervals. Ceiling housing and CMF for commercial interiors.

What they kept. Devices the partner points at their LNS and BMS. They own the application layer; we own getting the hardware and payload right.

Indoor and outdoor LoRaWAN gateways on a burn-in rack

Indoor and outdoor gateway, same RF base

Problem. A campus rollout needed Ethernet indoor units and a pole-mount outdoor unit on the same band plan.

What we did. Shared concentrator and backhaul options; two enclosures and antenna kits. Onboarding notes for the LNS they already run.

What they kept. One radio family, two install SKUs, documentation they keep. We do not operate the network.

How engagement fits together

Services, Process, and Why ParticlIO — then Contact Us so an engineer can read your brief.

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Services

IoT hardware design and manufacturing — PCB, firmware, enclosure, and assembly in one flow.

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Process

How a project runs from NDA and architecture through pilot and production.

Process
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Why ParticlIO

One team for OEM/ODM LoRaWAN — design-house depth with manufacturing follow-through.

Why ParticlIO
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Contact Us

Tell us about your custom hardware program. An engineer will read it.

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Ready to start?

Tell us the product. We'll tell you the path — full flow or a single stage.