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The prototype worked. That may be the problem.
- Josef HAYOZ
- October 21, 2026
- Reading time : 12 min12 min
A connected medical device prototype usually enjoys ideal working conditions: a fresh battery, an open enclosure, a cooperative wireless environment, and an engineer standing beside it, providing an extremely sophisticated fault-recovery service. Then someone asks whether it can become smaller, run for a week, survive interference, protect its data, pass verification, and be manufactured repeatedly. That is when a working prototype begins to tell a more complicated story.
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