DEVSFLOW / Connected Neurotechnology

Mobile engineering for connected neurotechnology.

DEVSFLOW builds BLE-connected mobile apps for research and clinical EEG, from multi-day patient recordings to multi-sensor field studies, with explicit handling for data integrity, crash recovery and the path from device to cloud.

Mobile requirements for neurotechnology products

Brain-sensing and biometric devices introduce specific requirements for transport, timing, data integrity, recovery, and validation.

Common technical risks

BLE-connected biosignal applications commonly encounter:

  • Dropped packets during high-throughput EEG streaming
  • BLE connection instability across Android fragmentation
  • Undefined signal-integrity acceptance criteria
  • Protocol and domain gaps between mobile and firmware teams
  • Unmeasured device, lifecycle, and radio conditions outside bench testing

Our approach

Our approach coordinates mobile implementation with firmware behavior and the product's data requirements:

  • Versioned GATT integration and measured throughput budgets
  • Physical-device testing based on the supported market
  • Sequence-aware buffering, gap detection, and explicit recovery state
  • Direct collaboration with your hardware team
  • Lifecycle and interruption tests for recording and recovery workflows

Engineering experience across

Organizations represented in the selected work below.

Signals we work with

Signal modalities represented in the selected RE-AK and CLEIO engagements.

EEG

Electroencephalography: brain electrical activity

EDA

Electrodermal activity: skin conductance

HR / HRV

Heart rate & heart rate variability

GPS

Geolocation: spatial context for field studies

SpO2

Pulse oximetry: blood oxygen saturation

Video

Camera recording synchronized with sensor data

Selected work

A research kit built from an empty repository, and a clinical EEG companion app built inside the client's team.

Nucleus-Kit: EEG, EDA, HR/HRV, GPS and POV camera integration

RE-AK: Nucleus-Kit

Vizia Mobile, built from an empty repository for a research kit combining EEG, EDA, HR/HRV, GPS, and point-of-view video. Researchers were recording real sessions within a month.

The scope covered concurrent sensor connections, screen-off recording, timing across streams and resumable upload.

Read the RE-AK case study

BLE EEG EDA HR/HRV GPS POV Camera

CLEIO: clinical EEG companion app

A DEVSFLOW engineer inside CLEIO's Android team, on a companion app for a wearable EEG device used in multi-day clinical recordings.

Device work started weeks before hardware arrived, and no study has been lost to an app crash since the crash-safe lifecycle shipped.

Read the CLEIO case study

BLE EEG Clinical EEG Device Simulation Backfill

Technical capabilities

Engineering capabilities for neurotechnology and biometric mobile applications.

BLE protocol engineering

Versioned GATT integration, negotiated MTU handling, measured connection behavior, serialized operations, and multi-peripheral state management.

Real-time signal streaming

Data-rate budgets, bounded receive pipelines, sequence verification, gap reporting, and validation on the actual peripheral and supported phones.

On-device processing

Product-specific signal processing and quality indicators can run locally when algorithms, performance limits, and scientific validation requirements are defined.

Offline-first architecture

Recording without network connectivity, local persistence, background synchronization, and explicit detection and reporting of data gaps.

Session data export

Session metadata, event markers, integrity summaries, and export formats such as EDF for clinical review software, selected with the researchers and downstream analysis pipeline.

Hardware simulation

A simulated device behind the same interface as the real one, with replayed captures and injected faults, so app work and testing can start before hardware is available.

Gap recovery and backfill

Detection of missing ranges in a recording and recovery from the device's own storage over USB or Wi-Fi, fed back into the same pipeline.

Device-to-cloud pipeline

Integrity-checked local files, chunked background upload with a shared retry policy, and status the operator can see while recording.

Cross-device compatibility

A physical-device and OS matrix derived from the supported market, with workarounds tied to reproduced traces and explicit regression tests.

Frequently asked questions

Do you work with early-stage hardware that's still in development?

Yes, and work does not have to wait for hardware. On a clinical EEG project we built a simulated amplifier behind the same interface as the real device, so the team could develop and test against realistic data, dropped packets and fault cases before hardware was available. A versioned protocol and a firmware engineering contact keep the simulator and the real device in step.

What platforms do you develop for?

Our connected-device delivery so far is native Android, including BLE, background recording and lifecycle handling. iOS engineers are available for iOS or cross-platform products. A shared UI can also be viable when the team owns a well-defined native BLE and lifecycle layer. The choice depends on protocol complexity, diagnostics, background behavior, supported devices, and team ownership.

How do you handle Android BLE fragmentation?

We define a physical-device matrix from the supported market, record phone and OS build with each failure, and validate the complete connection and data path under representative lifecycle and radio conditions. Workarounds are tied to reproduced behavior rather than chipset assumptions.

Can you work with our existing firmware team?

Yes. Mobile and firmware engineers should share a versioned protocol, traces, test fixtures, error semantics, and a change process so transport behavior is not inferred from either side alone.

What does "zero data loss" actually mean?

We design packet sequence verification, local buffering, and session recovery around each product's recording protocol. Reliability is verified per device and workflow rather than claimed as one universal zero-loss number.

How long does a typical project take?

A credible estimate requires the protocol, firmware readiness, sensor count and rate, lifecycle requirements, target devices, validation plan, cloud scope, and any regulatory evidence. A short technical discovery should establish those inputs before a delivery schedule is set.

Latest insights

Technical writing on building mobile apps for EEG, BLE wearables, and biosignal devices.

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