# Spanidea

> Spanidea is a privately held engineering and technology services company founded in 2011. It helps device makers, semiconductor companies, and enterprises build connected products through hardware design, embedded software, wireless integration, cloud applications, and AI engineering, supported by reusable connectivity and device-management software.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, United States
- **Founders:** Bhagirath Choudhary (Founder and Chief Executive Officer)
- **Products:** Embedded Systems & Firmware Engineering, Silicon Engineering & Hardware Design, Edge AI Engineering, UConnect, UManage
- **Notable:** Joined TIP OpenWiFi in October 2021, according to its announcement., Announced a ₹100 crore, three-year Jodhpur investment plan in April 2022, with a target to expand the local team from 100 to 500., Listed by STMicroelectronics for IoT engineering and silRTOS.

## Products & services

- **Embedded Systems & Firmware Engineering** — Board support packages, device drivers, real-time operating systems, middleware, and hardware/software integration.
- **Silicon Engineering & Hardware Design** — ASIC/FPGA design and verification, physical implementation, hardware design, and post-silicon validation.
- **Edge AI Engineering** — Model deployment and optimization on embedded targets, hardware acceleration, power optimization, and system validation.
- **UConnect** — Wireless connection-management software for discovering, configuring, controlling, and connecting cellular and Wi-Fi networks.
- **UManage** — OMA device-management software for over-the-air firmware and application updates, configuration, and remote diagnostics.
- **ANDSF / UMobility Manager** — Standards-based network discovery and selection software supporting Wi-Fi offload.
- **SpanFi** — Vendor-neutral Wi-Fi software stack and access-point solution supporting cloud or on-premises management.
- **silRTOS** — Real-time operating system for resource-constrained embedded applications, listed in STMicroelectronics’ partner catalog.
- **Cloud and Digital Engineering** — Cloud-native application development, modernization, DevOps, analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise integration.
- **OpenSync and OpenWiFi Integration** — Firmware porting, cloud-controller onboarding, integration, validation, and commercialization support for connected networking equipment.

## Achievements

- Joined TIP OpenWiFi in October 2021, according to its announcement.
- Announced a ₹100 crore, three-year Jodhpur investment plan in April 2022, with a target to expand the local team from 100 to 500.
- Listed by STMicroelectronics for IoT engineering and silRTOS.
- Contributed PPE detection to an Axelera multi-partner ISC West 2026 demonstration.
- Included as a firmware partner in BrainChip’s AKD1500 ecosystem.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Axelera AI’s September 15 Europa launch announcement included a statement from Spanidea CEO Bhagirath Choudhary about its end-to-end engineering work.
- **2026-09** — Spanidea promoted an AkidaTag fall-detection demonstration with BrainChip at Embedded World North America, September 22-24.
- **2026-04** — Axelera’s ISC West 2026 demonstration write-up credited Spanidea for PPE detection within a multi-model security system.

## Links

- Website: https://spanidea.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spanidea/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/SpanIdeainc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spanideasystem
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/spanideainc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Spanidea/61589859433778/

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Last updated: 2026-10-17