Engineering whitepapers

Engineering knowledge for connected products

Practical whitepapers for leaders building hardware, embedded software, IoT and AI-native products.

Written from real engineering work and focused on architecture, technical decisions, risks and trade-offs.

  • Architecture
  • Technical decisions
  • Risks and trade-offs

The library

Choose the engineering problem in front of you

Each whitepaper takes one class of connected product and asks where programs get stuck, which engineering decisions matter most and how to size the response.

Drone engineering

Gap or System? What's Really Stalling Your Drone Program

How to tell a narrow gap from a systemic problem in a stalled drone program, and the five boundary decisions that decide whether it reaches production.

What you'll learn

  • A test for telling one specific gap from a systemic problem before you restart, re-staff or re-architect
  • The five boundaries (interface, evidence, replaceability, reuse, knowledge) and the question each one asks
  • How one decision about a payload, a compute module or a radio moves through power, heat, mass and range

40 min readPDFOctober 2026

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How these are written

Evidence first, then the argument

  1. 01Written from project work

    Each paper starts from real Indeema engineering projects and the engineers who did the work, not from a content calendar.

  2. 02Statements stay inside the evidence

    Every project outcome is stated within what its project record shows. Where a paper cannot show a rate, a duration or a saving, it says so.

  3. 03Checked by the engineers involved

    The engineers behind each project check their sections, and an edition is released only after that review.

Talk through the decision in front of you

Bring an architecture question, a stalled program or a product that has to ship. Start with the decision your team needs to make next.

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