Free 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

Societal-Threats Regulatory Landscape

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

Interactive Formula Directory

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 — Boundary Discipline Toolkit

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. Companion to Chapter 13.

Open Electrum

Concept

Pigment

Wear your color.

The wrist is too small for someone else's taste. Pigment hands you the brush: turn any photo into a custom watch face in seconds, swap it as often as you change your mind, and wear today's mood instead of last season's catalog. Your color. Your wrist. Daily.

Open Pigment

Concept

Concierge

From a robot you own to a home that runs itself.

The vacuum was the beachhead — a sensor on wheels that learned the floor plan. Concierge turns that map into the dashboard your home actually wanted: schedule cleaning around real life, get notified before the dust bag runs out, browse vetted home services in the same app. The consumer face of the marketplace pivot from Chapter 23.

Open Concierge

Concept

Vendor Platform

List your service. Reach the install base.

The supply side of the iRobot Marketplace. Local cleaners, repair pros, and home-service brands list offerings, manage profiles, and surface in front of the households already running an iRobot in their living room. The vendor portal from Chapter 23's platform-pivot playbook.

Open Vendor Platform