Manchester IoT Lab

Northern England’s Edge AI & IoT Proving Ground.

A practitioner-led lab enabling hardware startups and scale-ups to build on NXP and NVIDIA silicon faster. Based in Manchester. Operated by Resolutis.

Lab Partners
NXP
Silicon Partner
Founding Partner
NVIDIA
AI Hardware
Connect Member
ARM
Architecture
IoT Partner
LF Edge
Ecosystem
Contributor
Your Co.
Founding Partner
Open
The Full Stack

Edge to enterprise, end to end.

Most consultancies solve one end of this problem. We solve all of it — from silicon bring-up through to data landing in your ERP or cloud dashboard.

Device
NXP i.MX 9x NTAG 424 DNA Abeeway tracker Custom firmware
Edge AI
Jetson Orin TensorRT eIQ / i.MX 9x EdgeOps
Connectivity
LTE-M / NB-IoT LoRaWAN MQTT / AMQP ThingPark
Cloud Pipeline
Kafka / Redpanda AWS IoT Core Azure IoT Hub Conduo
Enterprise
AWS / Azure / GCP SAP / Odoo / ERP WMS / POS Dashboards SFTP / CSV ingestion

Built for practitioners, not pitch decks.

The Manchester IoT Lab is a hands-on technical resource for hardware startups and engineering teams building edge AI and IoT products. We provide access to production silicon, embedded engineering depth, and a community of practitioners in the North of England.

Operated by Resolutis, the lab brings 25 years of embedded systems experience from Nokia, Google, JLR, Intel, and NXP to bear on the practical problems startups face when moving from development kit to production hardware.

The Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield triangle is underserved for this kind of support. The lab changes that.

25+
Years embedded systems depth
3
Active NXP silicon programmes in production
NV
NVIDIA Connect member
MCR
Manchester, Northern England

From dev kit to production.

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Hardware Access
NXP i.MX 9x and i.MX 93W evaluation boards, NTAG 424 DNA samples, PN532 rigs, Jetson Orin hardware, and Abeeway cellular trackers. Access production silicon before committing to procurement.
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Technical Deep Dives
Quarterly hands-on workshops covering BSP bring-up, edge AI inference deployment, NFC authentication architecture, and IoT connectivity stacks. Run by practitioners, not slides.
// 03
Embedded Engineering Support
Direct access to Resolutis engineering depth for prototyping sprints, architecture reviews, and production bring-up. Yocto, TensorRT, eIQ, NTAG 424 DNA, LTE-M. Real problems, real silicon.
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NXP Startup Programme Access
Lab members building on NXP silicon get a fast-track referral into NXP’s startup partnering programme via Resolutis as named sponsor.
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Community & Network
Monthly meetups connecting embedded engineers, hardware founders, and IoT product teams across Manchester and the Northern England corridor. No fluff, just practitioners.
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Prototyping Sprints
A 10-day structured sprint to prove your IoT connectivity or edge AI inference concept on real hardware before committing to a full build. Your hardware or ours.

Production silicon, not dev kits.

NXP
  • i.MX 93 EVK
  • i.MX 93W
  • NTAG 424 DNA
  • NTAG 224 DNA
  • PN532 NFC Reader
  • SE050 Secure Element
NVIDIA
  • Jetson AGX Orin
  • Jetson Orin NX
  • Jetson Orin Nano
  • TensorRT runtime
  • DeepStream SDK
Cellular IoT
  • Abeeway Micro Tracker
  • Abeeway Industrial Tracker
  • Actility ThingPark
  • LTE-M / NB-IoT
  • LoRaWAN gateway
Dev Stack
  • Yocto / OpenEmbedded
  • Rust embedded toolchain
  • eIQ ML toolkit
  • AWS IoT Core
  • Kafka / Redpanda

Who the lab is built for.

Hardware startups in the North of England building on embedded and edge AI technology. If you are hitting the wall between a development kit and production hardware, this is where you come.

Get in touch
01
NFC and RFID authentication companiesAsset provenance, anti-counterfeit, and proof-of-purchase products building on NTAG 424 DNA and NXP silicon.
02
Edge AI product companiesTeams with a trained model hitting the wall deploying it on Jetson or i.MX hardware in production.
03
IoT and asset tracking startupsProducts using LTE-M, NB-IoT, or LoRaWAN cellular connectivity for industrial or logistics applications.
04
Enterprise integration playsConnecting edge devices and sensors to ERP and cloud backends.
05
Spirits, whisky, and luxury goods techA genuine Northern England niche with active production proof points already running through the lab.

NXP’s beachhead in Northern England.

The Manchester IoT Lab is positioned as NXP’s strategic presence in the Northern England embedded and edge AI ecosystem. Resolutis provides the operational backbone and engineering credibility. NXP gets a developer pipeline, brand presence, and a real-world proving ground for their silicon.

01
NXP Validated Lab

A formal NXP designation carried by the lab when enabling startups on NXP silicon — i.MX 9x, NTAG 424 DNA, SE050.

02
Startup Fast-Track

Lab members building on NXP silicon get a direct referral into NXP’s startup partnering programme via Resolutis as named sponsor.

03
Build on NXP Workshop Series

Co-branded quarterly events counting toward NXP developer community activity in the North of England.

NVIDIA Jetson expertise, formally recognised.

Resolutis holds NVIDIA Connect membership, giving the lab and its startups direct access to NVIDIA's partner ecosystem, technical resources, and Jetson hardware programme. Edge AI inference on Jetson Orin is a core lab capability — not just a dev kit on a shelf.

01
Jetson Hardware in the Lab

Jetson AGX Orin, Orin NX, and Orin Nano available for prototyping sprints and inference bring-up. Access production-grade hardware before committing to your bill of materials.

02
TensorRT and DeepStream Deployment

Lab engineering support for TensorRT optimisation, INT8 quantisation, and DeepStream pipeline bring-up. Get your model from notebook to production Jetson hardware with the latency and power budget your product actually requires.

03
EdgeOps Observability

The lab runs EdgeOps — Resolutis’s in-house inference observability tool — on Jetson hardware. Latency tracking, model drift detection, and throughput dashboards. Datadog for edge inference at the SME price point.

Join the lab.

Whether you are a startup building on edge hardware, a silicon vendor looking for a Northern England presence, or an engineer who wants to be part of the community, get in touch.

Start the conversation john@resolutis.com