Clients and testimonials
For more than fifteen years we have designed, built and supported embedded products for companies like these, from startups with a single product to global groups. Their products run from payment terminals to quantum platforms.
Smart energy and metering
Home energy devices, metering platforms and factory heating controls, from first prototypes to products in hundreds of thousands of UK homes.
Octopus Energy
Lucy Electric
Sunamp
Sero
Procode
Arista Electronic Systems
Vickers ArcSett
Healthcare and assisted living
Medical and care technology, from bed-exit alarms and home monitoring to connected health gateways.
Montcalm International
Current Health
PHL Group
Canary Care
Scientific instruments and deep tech
Instruments and research platforms, from electron microscopy to quantum technology.
Oxford Instruments
Megger
Infleqtion
Irisys
Rail, transport and security
Rail signalling, motorway signage, secure video and safety-critical software, supported for the long term.
voestalpine
Curtiss-Wright
Digital Barriers
Direct Insight
VMS
Consumer, retail and leisure
Payment terminals, audio products and vending systems, with production runs in the tens of thousands.
Accu-Time Systems
Naim Audio
Quickgrind
What people say about working with us
“We have used Rufilla since 2012, when we embarked on a major project utilising technologies we had little experience of. During this time, Rufilla have worked collaboratively with us – helping with design concepts, providing advice while we learnt these technologies and providing essential support when we needed it quickly. Joe and his team have always been on hand and have reliably responded rapidly and flexibly where necessary despite our development priorities changing from time to time, communicating effectively throughout. Together, we have built a comprehensive build process and system architecture which underpins our products despite our initial lack of expertise in the technologies we chose to use for the developments. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Rufilla and would have no hesitation in recommending them.”
“We approached Rufilla to develop a remote alarm system for our acute care hospital beds to alert staff when patients are preparing to get out of the bed. The project required system design, multi-source component specification, procurement, assembly and testing. Rufilla worked through the project with quiet professionalism and delivered on time and at manageable cost. A perfect partner for our project.”
“Joe at Rufilla and his team have done a superb job defining and writing software for our company. He met his timeframes, and was very communicative and cooperative throughout the process. I highly recommend Rufilla for efforts requiring excellent insight and prompt successful accomplishment.”
“We called Rufilla for specialist help with a Yocto project. Not having dealt with them previously, we were not sure how this would work out. Joe's team were immediately on the case and provided solutions beyond our expectations. Great communications, skills and handover contributed to a very satisfactory result for us.”
“Joe is professional and great to work with. He always finds a solution to every problem with his unrivalled expertise. His work and ideas are innovative and I can highly recommend him.”
“Joe has an unusually strong combination of leading-edge technical skills and an entrepreneurial mindset, and is always fun to work with.”
From our training courses
Public courses have ended, but training is still part of how we work with client teams. Some feedback from delegates over the years.
“The presentation of the course is perfectly paced and explained in enough detail to build a working knowledge without getting bogged down in edge cases and unnecessary detail. I left the course feeling I was able to move on with our project utilising Yocto. [Joe's] presentation skills are excellent and the balance between slides and lab exercises was perfect.”
“AMAZING. I can separate the wheat from the chaff and Mr Joe Nicholson gave us not only the wheat but [the] bread and he shared with us how to make that good quality bread…”
“Congratulations on the recent Linux course – our 2 guys were very impressed with it, and having scanned the course material, I can see why!”
“Talking to my colleagues, we all felt we had gained something very useful from this (course) … it was especially good to have the benefit of Joe's hands on experience.”
“I attended one of your sessions … and very good it was too!”
“Thanks very much for the Linux course. I think it was really good and it was really what I wanted.”
“Thanks for the course yesterday (we) found it very useful.”
“Thanks for a well paced course on Wednesday”