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IoT Product Development Services: Sysdyne Delivery Sensor

Truck-mounted sensor hardware designed, prototyped and built in batch while the software launch date stayed fixed.

  • ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
  • ENCLOSURE & MECHANICAL DESIGN
  • COMPONENT SELECTION
  • RAPID PROTOTYPING
  • TESTING & TROUBLESHOOTING
  • SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION
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IoT Product Development Services: Sysdyne Delivery Sensor
Ralph Hill

Written by Ralph Hill, Mechanical & electrical systems, 3D manufacturing

Prototyping Engineer

Published August 30, 2026

Project snapshot

Sysdyne Technologies needed truck-mounted sensor hardware to match a software launch date. We designed the enclosure, packaged the electronics, iterated prototypes in weeks and built the first 50 units in under three months.

The LA New Product Development Team delivered IoT Product Development Services: Sysdyne Delivery Sensor, covering electronics engineering, enclosure & mechanical design, component selection, rapid prototyping, testing & troubleshooting and short-run production. Our in-house team handles concept design, engineering, prototyping and manufacturing readiness under one roof in Ruston, Louisiana.

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ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING, ENCLOSURE & MECHANICAL DESIGN, COMPONENT SELECTION, RAPID PROTOTYPING, TESTING & TROUBLESHOOTING and SHORT-RUN PRODUCTION
Sysdyne's DeliveryGo platform needed something software alone could not provide: a sensor on the mixer truck that reports what the truck is actually doing. Sysdyne Technologies brought LA NPDT in as their IoT product development partner — packaging the electronics, helping select the components that go into the product, designing the enclosure, running the prototype rounds, testing and troubleshooting, and then making and assembling the first production batch.
The result is the Delivery Sensor: a sealed, truck-powered unit that pairs over Bluetooth with the driver's tablet and feeds DeliveryGo automatically. It removes manual status entry across the whole delivery cycle — ticketed, loading, pouring, washing, returning — records the water added at the plant and on the job site from the truck water meter, and reports mixer drum speed, rotation direction and RPM. From the first design iteration to fifty assembled, packaged and shipped units took under three months.

The Brief: Hardware on a Software Company's Schedule

Sysdyne's team knew exactly what data they needed and had the software side ready to consume it. What they did not have in-house was the electromechanical path from a working idea to a device that survives on a mixer truck and can be built repeatably. A key customer was waiting on the technology, which set the real constraint on the project: every week of engineering had to end in something the client could hold, install and test.
  • Week 1 — first design iteration. Enclosure concept, internal layout for the board and connectors, and the component decisions that follow from both.
  • Under two weeks — first prototype shipped. A physical unit in Sysdyne's hands rather than a render to comment on.
  • Next few weeks — beta prototypes. We worked with their team to refine the design and test different sensor and connector configurations, then shipped beta units.
  • On site. One of our engineers travelled to their facility after the beta units shipped to help with installation, troubleshooting and testing on real equipment.
  • Under three months — 50 units. Once the configuration was approved we made the parts, purchased and assembled the electronics, integrated and packaged every unit, and shipped the batch.
CAD render of the Sysdyne-branded Delivery Sensor enclosure showing the 12 VDC input and five numbered sensor ports
CAD of the approved enclosure: branded top face, vented ribs, one power input and five numbered sensor ports.

Enclosure Design and Electronics Packaging

A mixer truck is a hostile home for electronics: vibration, wash-down water, concrete dust, heat and cold, and cabling that gets pulled. The enclosure was designed around those loads rather than around the board — a sealed body with structural ribbing across the back face, corner mounting bosses that carry load into the vehicle instead of into the electronics, and a single connector face so the harness can be strain-relieved as one bundle. Our electronic design services and mechanical team worked the two sides together instead of handing an enclosure a finished board.
The connector face is the interface the installer actually sees: one 12 VDC input powered from the truck battery, five numbered sensor ports, and a labelled PAIR control for Bluetooth pairing with the driver's tablet. Labels are moulded into the surface instead of printed, because a sticker does not survive a wash bay. We worked with Sysdyne on the component selection behind that face — connector series, sealing rating, cable glands, mounting hardware — choosing parts that were available in quantity and did not need a special assembly step.
Internally, the board, radio, power conditioning and wiring were packaged so the unit can be assembled by hand in a repeatable sequence: board seats in one orientation, harness routes one way, lid closes on a gasket with a fixed screw pattern. That decision is what made a fifty-unit batch feasible on the schedule — simple parts, minimum components, and no assembly step that depends on a skilled operator getting it right by feel.

Prototype Rounds, Testing and On-Site Support

The first prototype existed to be argued with. Sysdyne installed it, ran it against their software, and came back with changes: mounting position, cable exit, which sensor inputs mattered and how the unit should behave when a truck loses power. We iterated the enclosure and the internal layout around those findings and shipped beta prototypes a couple of weeks later. Different configurations were tested side by side rather than debated, which is the only way to compress a hardware decision into days.
After the beta units shipped, one of our engineers travelled to Sysdyne's facility to help install them, troubleshoot the integration and support testing on real trucks. That visit removed the slowest failure mode in remote hardware work: a fault that is obvious in person and invisible over email.

Making and Assembling the First 50 Units

Approval of the final configuration turned the project into a production job. We made all of the enclosure parts through in-house rapid prototyping and low-volume manufacturing, purchased the electronic components, assembled and integrated every unit, packaged each one as a field-ready kit and shipped the batch of fifty. Every step was designed to be repeatable: one board seat, one harness route, one gasketed lid with a fixed screw pattern, so a batch could be built on a compressed schedule without a bespoke fixture for each unit.
Sysdyne Delivery Sensor and paired gateway unit seated in custom foam inside an orange protective case
Packaged Sysdyne Delivery Sensor kit in its protective case ready to ship from the first production batch
Each unit shipped as a field-ready kit: sensor and paired hardware in cut foam, in a case that survives a truck bed.

The Outcome

Sysdyne secured the key customer that was waiting on the technology and moved to full-scale production and deployment quickly. The reason was the design as much as the schedule: a low part-count unit with straightforward assembly can be scaled by a contract manufacturer without redesign, and a field team can install it without training. The Delivery Sensor now ships as part of the Sysdyne product line alongside DeliveryGo.

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