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Embedded Rust Systems

Production Firmware — Memory-Safe, Bare-Metal, Connected

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Memory bugs in C firmware — buffer overflows, use-after-free, data races in interrupt handlers — surface as field failures, recalls, and security holes long after the device ships.

Obox Systems is an international software engineering company headquartered in the US, specializing in production embedded Rust firmware for IoT and industrial hardware. Engagements are led by our CTO, backed by a structured team with mandatory peer review; NDA available on request.

We engineer production-grade embedded firmware in Rust — bare-metal drivers, wireless connectivity, RTOS integration, and OTA update systems for IoT, industrial, and consumer hardware. Rust’s ownership model rules out whole classes of memory bugs at compile time, with no runtime overhead and C-level performance.

Proven: system crashes eliminated after a Swift-to-Rust migration on an IoT robot-vacuum platform (GoodFirms review, Cloudnine IoT).

We can help you with:

  • Bare-metal Rust firmware (no_std, embedded-hal, platform HALs)
  • Wireless protocol integration (BLE, WiFi, LoRa, MQTT, Zigbee)
  • RTOS integration and real-time task scheduling (FreeRTOS, Zephyr)
  • OTA firmware update systems with rollback and secure boot
  • Sensor fusion, motor control, and signal processing pipelines
  • C-to-Rust incremental migration via FFI — no forced full-rewrite
  • Power management optimization for battery-powered devices
  • Hardware bring-up on STM32, ESP32, Nordic nRF, and RP2040 — BSP development and driver implementation
  • Custom protocol parsers (CAN bus, Modbus, SPI/​I2C/​UART)
  • Tech lead support and embedded architecture consulting

The Diagnostic Architecture Audit maps your hardware architecture and firmware boundaries in five days — a written plan you own.

Technologies we use

  • Rust
  • C
  • STM32
  • ESP32
  • nRF
  • RP2040
  • FreeRTOS
  • Zephyr
  • BLE
  • LoRa
  • MQTT

Packages

Diagnostic Architecture Audit

Hardware architecture, existing firmware, and safety risks reviewed — Rust adoption path, firmware boundaries, and a roadmap

5 days

Rapid Technical Spike / PoC

One driver or subsystem running in Rust on your target silicon — integrated with your C code via FFI where needed

10–15 days

Dedicated Engineering Squad

A dedicated Obox embedded team owning firmware releases, device updates, and hardware bring-up, with all code staying yours

Monthly retainer

Core Modernization Sprint

C firmware migrated to Rust in phases — peripheral by peripheral, with no forced rewrite or frozen feature work

Milestone-based

Case Studies

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Battery Management System (BMS)

An industrial Battery Management System for energy storage, using CAN-bus real-time monitoring, intelligent charging, and automated safety controls across thousands of battery modules.

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Steel Yard IoT Asset Tracking - Hybrid Asset Management Platform

United States11 months

Engineered a hybrid LoRa+GPS and BLE AoA asset-tracking platform for a US manufacturer, cutting asset retrieval from up to 45 minutes to under one minute and deploying 1,500+ tags with multi-year battery life.

Robot Vacuum Cleaner App project screenshot
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Robot Vacuum Cleaner App

United States24 months

Re-architected a robot vacuum companion app, migrating critical components from Swift to Rust — halving the codebase, eliminating crashes and deadlocks, and boosting cross-platform speed.

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Cirdia Fitness App

United States8 months

A privacy-first mobile health-tracking app with direct Bluetooth IoT integration, keeping biometric data fully local while delivering meaningful insights and reliable data flow.

FAQ

  • Rust gives you C-level performance with compile-time memory safety. No garbage collector, no runtime overhead. The compiler catches buffer overflows, race conditions, and use-after-free before code touches hardware — the bug classes responsible for most embedded field failures.

  • Yes. Rust’s C FFI lets us add new modules in Rust that integrate directly with your existing C codebase. No forced rewrite. We migrate incrementally — one peripheral, one driver, one subsystem at a time.

  • STM32 (Cortex-M0/​M3/​M4/​M7), ESP32 (Xtensa and RISC-V), Nordic nRF (BLE SoCs), RP2040, and custom ARM/​RISC-V targets. We work with your target silicon — not a simulator.

  • We design firmware with deterministic execution paths — interrupt priorities, DMA transfers, lock-free data structures. For hard real-time requirements, we integrate with RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr) and validate timing with logic analyzers and hardware profiling.

  • If a HAL crate doesn’t exist for your MCU, we write one. Rust’s SVD-to-PAC toolchain generates register-level access code from your chip’s datasheet. We’ve built custom HALs for targets without ecosystem support.

  • Yes. BLE, WiFi, LoRa, MQTT, Zigbee, and CAN bus. We architect communication layers that coexist with real-time control loops — proper interrupt priorities, power management, and OTA update systems that don’t brick devices.

  • Yes. We sign NDAs before any technical discussion begins, on request.

  • You do. IP, source code, firmware binaries, and hardware documentation are fully assigned to you on completion — no vendor lock-in.

  • Yes. Signed contracts with fixed scope per phase. Wyoming LLC — you’re contracting with a registered entity, not an individual.

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