Yalantis Joins Nordic Semiconductor’s Design Partner network as demand for secure devices grows

Two European technology companies are formalizing a collaboration that reflects a wider shift in the hardware industry: connected products are increasingly built through ecosystems, where chip vendors, engineering firms, and product companies work side by side from the first prototype onward.

Yalantis, a Warsaw-headquartered IoT and embedded engineering company, has become an official Design Partner of Nordic Semiconductor, the Norwegian chipmaker whose low-power wireless technology powers a wide range of connected products, from medical wearables to industrial sensors. The partnership formalizes years of hands-on work with Nordic platforms and comes at a moment when companies building connected devices face rising expectations on battery life, reliability, and cybersecurity.

Connected devices are no longer a niche. Hospitals rely on wireless patient monitors, factories run on networks of sensors, and electric vehicle chargers, smart meters, and retail systems all depend on small, power-efficient radios that must work for years without attention. Nordic Semiconductor's chips, which support technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy, Bluetooth Mesh, Wi-Fi, and cellular IoT standards LTE-M and NB-IoT, sit at the core of many of these products.

But choosing the right chip is only the beginning. Turning it into a finished product requires hardware and radio-frequency design, embedded software, mobile applications, cloud infrastructure, and, increasingly, a clear path through regulatory certification. That's where engineering partners come in, and why chipmakers like Nordic maintain networks of vetted design partners to support customers who need to move from concept to market quickly.

For Yalantis, the designation builds on existing experience. The company has designed and delivered connected products using Nordic's nRF52, nRF54, and nRF91 chip families across medical devices, industrial systems, EV charging, and connected retail, working with both the nRF5 SDK and the newer nRF Connect SDK built on the Zephyr real-time operating system.

Becoming an official Design Partner gives Yalantis deeper access to Nordic's ecosystem, technical resources, and collaboration opportunities. For companies developing connected products, the practical benefits center on speed and risk reduction:

• One team across the full lifecycle, from concept and rapid prototyping through hardware, firmware, connectivity, apps, cloud, and validation
• Secure, power-efficient wireless design for products that must run for years on small batteries
• Stronger support for regulated products in medical, industrial, and automotive markets, where certification requirements shape engineering decisions from day one
• Faster time to market through closer integration with Nordic's platforms and development tools
• Scalable device-to-cloud architectures designed for products with long operational lifecycles

These benefits matter for startups and established manufacturers alike, including companies in innovation hubs such as Israel, where medtech, digital health, and industrial IoT companies often need to validate a connected product quickly and prepare it for demanding international markets.

The timing also reflects a broader shift in how connected products are regulated. The European Union's Cyber Resilience Act, the first EU-wide law setting cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, introduced vulnerability and incident reporting obligations for manufacturers in September 2026, with its full requirements applying from December 2027. Medical device makers face their own cybersecurity expectations from regulators in the United States and Europe.

For any company selling connected devices into the EU, security can no longer be added at the end of development. It has to be designed into the hardware, firmware, and update mechanisms from the start. Yalantis positions itself as a compliance-first engineering partner: the company holds ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 certifications and runs an in-house R&D lab in Warsaw covering the hardware lifecycle, from industrial design and PCB engineering to prototyping, firmware, and embedded software.

We've been building products on Nordic platforms for years, and our clients rely on that experience to get secure, power-efficient devices to market faster," said Denys Hukov, Chief Growth Officer at Yalantis. "Becoming an official Nordic Design Partner formalizes that expertise and gives us even closer access to Nordic's technology and ecosystem. With regulations like the Cyber Resilience Act raising the bar for connected products, our goal is to help clients build devices that are reliable, secure, and ready for certification from the very first prototype."

As connected products spread deeper into healthcare, industry, energy, and mobility, the partnership between chipmakers and engineering specialists is becoming a key factor in how quickly new devices reach the market. By combining Nordic Semiconductor's wireless technology with its full-cycle IoT and embedded engineering capabilities, Yalantis aims to help companies bring complex connected products from concept to market faster and with greater confidence.

About Yalantis

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, Yalantis is a full-cycle IoT, software, and hardware engineering company with a team of more than 400 specialists. The company designs and builds connected and compliant systems for clients in healthcare, medtech, manufacturing, logistics, automotive, and other industries, combining embedded engineering, hardware design, AI, and cloud development. Yalantis is ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ISO 13485 certified and an AWS Advanced Tier Partner.

This article was written in cooperation with Yalantis