Free IoT tools for connected-hardware PMs

Interactive tools spanning IoT security, regulatory landscape, business calculators, and platform-concept prototypes. Use them before reading the book. No registration required.

Planning

IoT Security Requirements Generator

Describe the product. Get the requirements.

Describe your product profile. Get ETSI-mapped security requirements for your PRD, exportable as Markdown or CSV.

Launch Generator
Audit

IoT Security Scorecard

Audit your security in 19 questions.

19 questions aligned with ETSI EN 303 645. Get a risk grade, mandatory compliance flags, and prioritized recommendations.

Launch Scorecard
Reference

Regulatory Landscape

Know which frameworks bind your product.

Which cybersecurity frameworks apply to your connected product? Map the landscape by archetype, market, and buyer type — ETSI EN 303 645, EU CRA, UK PSTI, IEC 62443, ISO 27001, and more.

Open Landscape
Reference

Battery Discharge Curves

Pick the chemistry, not just the brand.

Interactive comparison of AA battery chemistries on voltage vs. capacity: zinc-carbon, zinc-chloride, alkaline, and nickel-cadmium. Companion to Chapter 7.

Open Chart
Reference

Post-Sale Regulations for Connected Products

Map the obligations that outlive launch.

Map which post-sale regulations bind your connected product across EU, US, UK, and France — repair, forced obsolescence, data brokers, bankruptcy transfers, and e-waste. Companion to Chapter 19.

Open Landscape
Calculator

Business Formula Calculators

Business math, live and shareable.

Live calculators for key business formulas — contribution margin, profit, NPV, simple and compound interest, risk premium, and customer lifetime. Calculate, share via link, embed anywhere.

Open Directory
Electrum example output — labeled cross-section illustration of an automated bubble maker next to a photorealistic render of the same product on a wooden table Toolkit

Electrum — Hardware-Software Partitioning

From one sentence to hardware specification.

Open-source toolkit for placing every function of a connected product on the right layer — hardware, firmware, app, or cloud — before tooling locks the choice in. Templates, gate-review checklist, and AI-assisted skill.

Open Electrum
Playful 3D illustration of charts, gauges and data shapes drawn as smiling characters on a dark navy background Planning

Tangibles Analytics Stack Planner

Map use-cases to the stack you actually need.

Plan your connected-product analytics stack one use-case at a time — data class, stack layer, KPIs, platforms — then export a buy-vs-build setup plan. Companion to Chapter 9.

Open Planner
Diagram of IoT devices — a gateway, sensors and a camera — routing through a central locator hub to three destinations: Edge, Hub and Cloud Planning

Tangibles Compute Locator

Edge or cloud? Find out before you commit.

Decide where compute & AI should live and check cost, latency, bandwidth and battery-life feasibility at fleet scale — including harvested and mains power. Companion to Chapter 9.

Open Locator

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