Solving the UK Engineering Skills Crisis: Why Technology Partnerships Make Sense
The UK engineering sector is entering 2026 with a strange contradiction. Engineers themselves are cautiously optimistic about the year ahead, driven by strong order books and expanding investment in areas like energy and defence.Yet the organisations employing them are facing one of the most severe capability shortages in decades. This gap between opportunity and available […]
What Embedded World 2026 Reveals About the Future of UK Product Development
Embedded World 2026 is fast approaching, and as always it acts as a reliable early indicator of where the global electronics and product engineering sector is heading. The conference gathers semiconductor vendors, RTOS providers, device manufacturers, toolchain developers, and system integrators in one place. If you build connected products in the UK, this event matters […]
Adding Smart Features Doesn’t Have to Be Hard (or Expensive)
We recently finished a product design where we integrated the Tuya platform for a client. It got me thinking about how much easier this stuff has become. A few years back, if you wanted to add app control to a physical product, you were looking at serious development time. Custom firmware, building out your own […]
OpenClaw Tips and Tricks
We’re getting into using OpenClaw heavily, as we find useful tips and tricks we’ll add them here… API usage costs These can get very costly very quickly if you’re not careful, especially if you are using Anthropic Opus 4.5. Opus 4.5 is brilliant for creative tasks, but unnecessarily expensive for general tasks. Solutions: Troubleshooting Constant […]
Set up your own OpenClaw (Clawdbot) in the cloud easy guide!
Clawdbot has been renamed to OpenClaw, Claude AI got upset by the name choice! Why OpenClaw? OpenClaw is the first AI assistant that genuinely works for you – not just answering questions, but remembering context, taking action, and operating like a real member of your team. Hand it tasks and it handles them: pulling data, […]
Proof of Date cloud service
The Proof of Date website was developed by IBEX to deliver a lightweight yet cryptographically verifiable timestamping service, enabling users to prove the existence of a document, file, or action at a specific point in time. The system integrates scalable cloud infrastructure with distributed storage, public blockchain as its root of trust, and cryptography to […]
Creating a Secure Cloud Server for Blockchain Transaction Signing
I’ve recently been working on a project that required strong security measures for a cloud-based system responsible for signing blockchain transactions. At the heart of this requirement is the need to safely store the private key for the wallet used in these transactions. The challenge is amplified when you’re building a service that can sign […]
School Class Observation System
Continuous teacher training and improvement is a key requirement in schools today and this system was developed to allow teachers to record their own lessons and have lessons observed live by their peers, without affecting the pupils in the classroom. IBEX designed all of the system electronics, embedded software, PC software and server software. The […]
Nurse Call System
This project involved developing a radio based paging system, designed for use by people with limited mobility. A bedside control unit is connected to a client patented sense pad which provides an ingenious method of detecting user input from people unable to use conventional keypads and buttons. The user is able to generate actions through […]
Alarm messaging transmitter
For this project our client already had a wireless system that is installed in large retail outlets around the world. A new feature request had emerged to be able to feed alarm notifications into their existing system and IBEX was asked to develop a way to accomplish this. Utilising an existing wireless transmitter PCB already […]