Connected product engineering

Turn connected products into intelligent devices that drive lifetime value

From wearables to home routers, to smart appliances, connected products increasingly shape how consumers live, work and interact with brands. Products that were once standalone assets are becoming connected, intelligent, continuously evolving platforms that generate data, create new services, and deliver ongoing customer value.

Advances in Wi-Fi, 5G, Matter, edge AI, cloud, and silicon are expanding what these devices can do. Consumers now expect simple setup, reliable connectivity, and seamless interoperability. They quickly lose patience with products that are complex to get connected, do not interact properly with other devices, or make it hard to perform software updates. Connectivity is a key product differentiator.

Managing complexity from device to cloud

As products evolve into software-defined systems, engineering teams need expertise that spans the entire technology stack. Delivering seamless connected experiences requires deep integration across electronics, embedded software, Wi-Fi and other wireless technologies, edge intelligence, cloud services, and user applications. Every layer must work together seamlessly – across the device, different networks, and product ecosystems. Developing and maintaining these capabilities in-house can increase complexity, slow innovation and delay time to market.

Once products are deployed, manufactures must ensure connectivity performs reliability in real world environments, remains compatible with evolving technologies, and meets stringent requirements for security, privacy, performance and certification. They must also manage devices at scale, deliver secure over-the-air updates and support products throughout increasingly long lifecycles.

Designing, validating and testing these interactions end-to-end requires specialist facilities, tools, and expertise that can be slow and costly to build internally.

Our solution: end-to-end connected product engineering

From chip to cloud, Capgemini Engineering helps organizations design, secure, test and continuously evolve connected products. We combine product engineering, embedded systems, connectivity, edge AI, cloud and lifecycle management with deep Wi-Fi expertise, AI assets, and advanced testing facilities. This integrated approach reduces complexity and brings secure, certified and future-ready consumer devices to market faster.