Pretty Smart Labs

Bluetooth · IoT · Edge AI

Connected products,
built at AI speed.

Pretty Smart Labs is an AI native product engineering studio. Since 2007 we have taken devices from firmware to cloud to app, Bluetooth LE to edge AI, with the senior rigor wireless demands.

Shipping since 2007On Nordic silicon since 2014Eight disciplines under one roofReferred by Nordic's own field engineersClients who come back years later

Who we are

We are a product engineering studio. We have shipped connected devices since 2007, and we build our own. The latest is psvision, an AI camera that runs on a Bluetooth LE microcontroller. Building for ourselves is how we stay honest about what ships.

You are always doing things before the market. I like it.
Don Janysek, the field engineer who has worked with us since 2015, now Senior Staff FAE at Nordic Semiconductor, in a 2016 email. Still our favorite review.

Our own product

An AI camera that runs on a Bluetooth LE microcontroller.

The classifier runs on the sensor die. What leaves the device is a verdict: a class, a confidence, and one still of about 70 KB as evidence. No MIPI, no application processor, no video stream. You say a word, and that word becomes the filter.

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The psvision demo rig: an Arducam B0642 camera on a Nordic nRF54LM20 development kit.

What we do

Eight disciplines, one team.

Sensing, radio, inference, actuation, app, cloud, and the certification work that decides whether any of it ships.

01

Bluetooth LE and LE Audio

From NDA to a shipped pairing milestone in 21 days.

02

Bluetooth Mesh

230 metre node links on battery, on a railroad maintenance train.

03

Sensors and signals

ITU-T biosignal format contribution, 2017.

04

Inference on the device

Parkinson's tremor detection as ML on a milliwatt node, 2020. YOLO11n on sensor, 2026.

05

Voice and keyword spotting

The spoken word becomes the camera's filter, on the nRF54 Axon NPU.

06

Haptics and actuation

Haptic wearables that let deaf fans feel a live match in the stadium.

07

Matter, Thread and Zigbee

Shipped alongside BLE in the same products, not instead of it.

08

Apps, cloud and the unglamorous half

Products we still keep alive years after delivery.

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How to start

Fixed fee · 2 to 4 weeks

Edge Inference PoC Sprint

Your use case running on real hardware, with measured on device benchmarks and an engineering book you keep.

Monthly

Sustaining Retainer

The team that built it keeps it shipping: firmware updates, app store renewals, DFU, and the fix that cannot wait. Built for products already in the field.

What clients say

Trusted by the people we have shipped with.

I have seen the Pretty Smart Labs team quickly overcome within a short time challenging issues which the end customer has struggled with over a year and quickly get them to prototype testing.
Erich Van StralenAvnet AVID
The Pretty Smart Labs team has deep BLE knowledge, especially as it pertains to the Nordic family. I have seen their team respond with excellent timing to unexpected situations.
Michael KnightNordic Semiconductor
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