# BMEC Technologies

> Cape Town multidisciplinary engineering consultancy. We take products from idea to deployed reality across fractional CTO, software, hardware, automation and medical-device engineering, including AI built into client systems - one accountable in-house team, no silos and no vendor hand-offs.

BMEC Technologies (Pty) Ltd is a bespoke engineering firm founded by Raphael Smith and Heidi Wilson. Senior, professionally trained engineers handle mechanical, electronic, firmware, software and medical work under one roof. We model and simulate before building, structure projects to protect client IP from day one, and have a track record including first-time CE certification on a 1,000+ component system, R10M+ development programmes and concept-to-clinical medical devices.

## Pages
- [Home](https://bmec.co/): Overview of capabilities, selected work, the six-phase process and how we work.
- [Capabilities](https://bmec.co/capabilities.html): The five disciplines in depth, specialist partner network and in-house equipment.
- [Selected work](https://bmec.co/work.html): Case-study index across industrial, medical, agritech and consumer products.
- [Services](https://bmec.co/services.html): How a BMEC engagement starts. Bespoke work, with five bounded entry points that each end in a written deliverable.
- [Speaking & training](https://bmec.co/speaking.html): Masterclasses, workshops, technical training and keynotes: technical due diligence, MVEP, IP strategy, regulated products and AI in engineering practice.
- [About](https://bmec.co/about.html): Story, founders, why clients choose BMEC and the industries we serve.
- [Careers](https://bmec.co/careers.html): Hiring philosophy and how to apply.
- [Contact](https://bmec.co/contact.html): How to start a conversation with the founders.

## Engagements
- [First Look](https://bmec.co/first-look.html): Before anything exists. For an idea you have not yet put in front of anyone qualified. A structured call and a short written read covering the strongest part, the weakest...
- [Kick Start](https://bmec.co/kick-start.html): An idea, no project yet. For an idea you believe in but have not started building. We sanity-check the direction and point you at the funding that fits it, before you spend a...
- [Risk Review](https://bmec.co/risk-review.html): A project that exists. For a project about to get expensive. An independent techno-commercial read on what could go wrong, with a recommendation against each risk and a...
- [Rescue](https://bmec.co/rescue.html): A project in trouble. For a project that has already gone wrong. A vendor who stopped delivering, IP you cannot trace, a funder milestone about to be missed, a unit cost...
- [Discovery Phase](https://bmec.co/discovery-phase.html): Ready to commit. The full definition exercise. Requirements, functional specification, system architecture and a development plan, ending in a fixed-price statement...

## Capabilities
- [fCTO](https://bmec.co/capabilities.html#fcto): Fractional C-suite techno-commercial leadership - directorship, due diligence, IP and investment support.
- [Software](https://bmec.co/capabilities.html#software): Mobile, web, cloud and embedded; field-validated Deep Core Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and MQTT libraries. AI assistants, document automation, code review tooling and agentic workflows, live at https://ai.bmec.co.
- [Hardware](https://bmec.co/capabilities.html#hardware): Mechanical, electronic and industrial design through to factory-ready manufacturing packs.
- [Automation](https://bmec.co/capabilities.html#automation): IoT, mechatronics and industrial control; the configurable SmartNode ESP32 platform.
- [Medical](https://bmec.co/capabilities.html#medical): Device R&D to clinical deployment; CE, FDA, UKCA, ISO 13485 and SAHPRA experience.

## Case studies
- [ArcStation](https://bmec.co/work/arcstation.html): ArcAqua - Industrial automation / Food-safety. BMEC's first major engagement. We came in to rescue a stalled vendor relationship, then designed ArcAqua's flagship industrial ozone...
- [SmartSpreader](https://bmec.co/work/smartspreader.html): Red Ant Agri - AgriTech / Precision agriculture. What started as a bounded electronics brief - use GPS to control a fertiliser spreader's dispensing rate - grew, over nine years and five...
- [Red Ant Onion Harvester](https://bmec.co/work/onion-harvester.html): Red Ant Agri - AgriTech / Industrial automation. Red Ant's onion harvester lifts, de-tops and conveys onions at field pace - but only if it stays precisely aligned to the row. BMEC's...
- [Draught Guardian](https://bmec.co/work/draught-guardian.html): Draught Guardian - Hospitality tech / IoT. A hospitality-tech startup that monitors beer pours, volumes and loss came to BMEC for a modest hardware revision - a more robust version...
- [Simba Pediatric Bed](https://bmec.co/work/simba-pediatric-bed.html): Medical device startup - Medical devices. Good design and engineering rigour are two different things. A medical-device startup had a compelling paediatric-bed concept - but no path...
- [QMAX](https://bmec.co/work/qmax.html): LIQID Medical - Medical devices / Ophthalmology. QMAX is a permanent medical implant for the treatment of glaucoma - a device at the very small end of precision engineering, where...
- [HSBP](https://bmec.co/work/hsbp.html): CapeRay Medical - Medical devices / Diagnostic imaging. HSBP is the hermetically sealed breast platform underpinning a screening device able to capture X-ray and ultrasound imagery...
- [Timeline](https://bmec.co/work/timeline.html): Timeline - Consumer / Assistive technology. Timeline is a digital hourglass for the neurodiverse community - a calm, visual way to represent the passage of time. BMEC took it the...
- [AquaNode](https://bmec.co/work/aquanode.html): AquaNode - IoT / Water. AquaNode was an IoT water-tank monitoring solution well ahead of its time. Commercially it didn't take off - but it earned its place in our...

## Connect
- Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/9448213/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmectechnologies/
- BMEC AI (ask our AI about an engineering problem): https://ai.bmec.co
- Careers / applications: careers@bmec.co