Poken

Customer

POKEN S.A., Switzerland

Project

Poken is a 'social business card'.

The easy way to share contact details and online social networks in the real world.

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Challenges

A number of challenges had to be addressed during the design and development of the Poken device:

Limited number of processors with full speed USB, low operating voltage and low power consumption
Compatibility with standard PC mass storage device (MSD) specifications and MSD on-the-fly content generation
Strong encryption algorithm used with small embedded processor
USB support on a small device and security for small embedded systems (Design & implementation)
Software development with customer
Awareness for large volumes in the start phase, which runs only small volumes

Poken

Social business card

Solutions

Poken

Keep It Small and Simple (KISS) to simplify the transfer of the entire design to customer's engineering team.

Benefits

Component selection to fit both low price, high volume and short project time frame.

Pricing also for higher volumes without having to redesign
Usage of relaxed SMD components to simplify production
Test concept developed for high volume production
Designed for booth fast prototype production as well as usability for higher volumes (ramp up)

Comments

Re-designs are now conducted by the customers own engineering team.