Featured Projects

Our work that illustrates the bespoke experiences we designed and built

Industrial equipment & tools

CFD & FEA for a Copper Smelter Furnace

EnCata carried out advanced CFD and FEA simulations to help an industrial manufacturer analyze heat and gas flow in a copper smelting furnace. The insights revealed inefficiencies, guided geometry improvements, and supported modernization across TRL 1–9.

Robotics

Custom Warehouse Fulfillment Robot

EnCata supported a robotics startup as an engineering contractor, developing a custom warehouse robot (400 kg load) for indoor and outdoor use — from concept to pilot-ready prototype. All IP belongs to the customer.

Industrial equipment & tools

Custom TPMS Test Stand for Industrial Use

EnCata engineered a custom tire pressure sensor (TPMS) test stand for industrial QA—developing mechanics, electronics, and firmware from scratch. The compact device supports 10 chambers. All IP belongs to the customer.

IIoT & automation

Custom IIoT Solution for Thermal and Water Flow Control

IIoT solution combining thermal metering, flow regulation, and smart valve control. Built from scratch (TRL 1) and deployed in real infrastructure (TRL 9). All IP belongs to the customer.

Healthcare

Custom Brain Cooling Device

EnCata developed a dual-circuit brain cooling system for therapeutic use in stroke rehabilitation, neurotrauma, and psychiatric care. The system includes a portable cooling control unit and a head-cooling helmet.

Green tech

Custom atmospheric water generation system

This custom-built system extracts up to 50 liters of water per day from air in hot, dry regions. Developed to meet a specific customer's needs, it showcases EnCata’s full-cycle expertise in thermal design, electronics, firmware, and prototyping. All IP belongs to the customer.

Industrial equipment & tools

Custom Thermal Manikin Testing System

EnCata developed a thermal manikin testing system to evaluate fire-protective clothing. The system features high-efficiency thermal panels, a mobile manikin with 180° rotation, and a crane-beam mechanism adapted to the facility’s space and ventilation layout.

Consumer & wearable

Custom IoT 5-in-1 Air Purifier

EnCata developed a multifunctional IoT device that purifies, humidifies, ionizes, and monitors indoor air. We supported a consumer startup as an engineering contractor — from concept and embedded software to pilot production. All IP belongs to the customer.

Consumer & wearable

Custom Smart Beverage Pourer

EnCata supported a startup as an engineering contractor, developing a smart beverage pourer for bars that meters each pour in real time, connects to POS and mobile apps, and enables NFC payments — from PoC to MVP. All IP belongs to the customer.

Healthcare

Custom Surgical Drain Device

EnCata supported a MedTech startup as an engineering contractor by developing a custom surgical drain device intended for post-operative pleural cavity drainage. The project included mechanical design, rapid prototyping, and low-volume manufacturing. All IP belongs to the customer.

Smart building

IIoT & automation

Inflatable Building Development

EnCata designed and built a smart inflatable facility to expand its R&D space. The project included pneumatic structural design, HVAC, embedded IoT systems, cloud-based control, simulations, and manufacturing — delivered from concept to commissioning in 3.5 months.

Agriculture

Smart Soil Irrigation System Development

EnCata helped a startup develop a smart soil irrigation system from concept to MVP. The system includes custom electronics, BLE, LoRaWAN, and solar-powered modules for real-time soil monitoring and control. Built and tested in just 8 months.

Analytical & lab equipment

Custom soil testing equipment

EnCata provided engineering services for a startup developing a custom soil testing rig with a stabilometer and load system. We delivered mechanical engineering, CAD, FEA, prototyping, and documentation. Built and tested from scratch in just 5 months.

Consumer & wearable

Custom Smart Kitchen Kettle

EnCata developed this smart kitchen appliance for a European company entering the smart home market, delivering feasibility studies, electronics, firmware, and a working prototype for a device that brews coffee, tea, and prepares baby formula.

Consumer & wearable

Actuator mechanism spinner

The actuator mechanism spinner replaces the traditional central bearing with a custom mechanism that enables spinning when squeezed rhythmically along its axis. The speed of rotation is controlled by the force and intensity of the applied pressure, offering a dynamic, interactive experience.

Smart building

Cuby House construction technology

EnCata invented and developed a new technology - CUBY CONSTRUCTION. It allows large-scale rapid housing development and modular architecture with repeatable manufacturing quality, comfort and low cost.

Healthcare

Sleeping Pod

Reyou capsule for rest, sleep, quick recovery and improved psycho-emotional state during the working day.

Healthcare

Smart gate with built-in disinfection system

Gate|0 is a unique multifunctional disinfectant system for crowded places, offices, and mobile hospitals, providing an overhead shower of disinfectant solution for a few seconds as individuals pass through the gate.

Vehicles

IP-66 housing for a car-sharing company

Custom dust and moisture-resistant IP66 enclosure for automotive application, accommodating a custom PCB. EnCata delivered the industrial design, DFM, and manufactured in-house a steel mold along with the first batch and product assembly.

Industrial equipment & tools

CFD computer simulations for New type Gas burner

Heat transfer computer simulations and design of a new type of ceramic gas burner employing IR-irradiation effect. The novel industrial gas burner design demonstrated superior efficiency in comparison with conventional heating modules.

Vehicles

Mobile system for radio communication

The project's aim was to develop an industrial design and build a prototype for the antenna. The antenna system is a mobile UHF radio communication system. It's used for navigating ships, as well as radio control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The device is installed at a depth of up to 50 meters from the ship.

Industrial equipment & tools

5-axis CNC machine

MiniCNC is a compact 5-axis CNC machine used for prototyping. Its main functions include precise processing of a wide range of materials (non-ferrous metals, waxes, modeling plastics) and producing high precision parts of small dimensions. Its low prime cost serves as its primary competitive edge.

Other

Self-managed cold electronic storage for digital assets custody

The Piston Vault is secure electronic custody safe for Spark™ wallets. The safe design provides storage and reliable connectivity, ready to control and execute blockchain-enabled safe transactions.

Healthcare

VR surgery training and simulation platform

A VR surgical training platform with hyper-realistic simulations uses full-body tracking and tactile feedback for maximum immersion. It integrates software and hardware to enable collaborative surgeries and tool skills training.

Consumer & wearable

Compact horizontal drilling tool

The hydrodrilling tool is a horizontal directional drilling (HDD) device for trenchless pipe-laying. It is used to create a pilot borehole and a borehole of a specified size.

Smart building

Aerocapsule for noise-insulation in the crowded places

AeroCapsule is a soundproof booth for meetings, time-off and secluded work in public areas. It is designed for use in locations with variable ambient noise loads, such as manufacturing facilities, offices, airports and other overcrowded areas.

Green tech

Vehicles

Electric skateboard for urban mobility

An electric skateboard is designed for simplifying short-distance travel around the city. The device is a reliable, eco-friendly, convenient, and intelligent type of urban transport with the possibility of integration into urban infrastructure.

Healthcare

Blood Container

The blood container is designed for automated whole blood centrifugation in a specialized centrifuge.

Healthcare

Laminar flow box for GMP production line

Rapid custom development and batch production project for a new pharmaceutical plant. The specific size and assembly requirements compounded the challenge for the laminar clean hood design.

Vehicles

VTOL impeller design

The R&D project involved a range of aerodynamic simulations for a new generation electric flight design. The project focused on optimizing multirotor three-bladed propellers’ efficiency within impeller ‘barrel’ geometry with further DFM.

Vehicles

Autonomous Drone Station

A hangar for the drone on autonomous control with a built-in charging system. Equipped with a robotic drone positioning/landing system. The hangar design allows the drone to take off and land automatically.

Smart building

The house-building system “Ecocube"

ECOCUBE is a system which allows for building energy-efficient, environmentally friendly, economical houses from natural renewable materials.

Industrial equipment & tools

Explosion-proof industrial vacuum cleaner

Industrial explosion-proof (Ex-proof) vacuum cleaner designed to work with sugar dust combined with the central cleaning system of the sugar mill.

Industrial equipment & tools

Explosion-proof industrial baghouse for dust collection systems

A large Ex-proof modular baghouse designed and produced for a sugar processing plant. The filter unit cleans 32,000 m3 of dusty air per hour and operates automatically, taking advantage of smart mechanical and electrical design.

Agriculture

Hydroponics IoT Plant Pot

An industrial design and product development project of the “click-and-grow” smart plant pot with IoT functionality and significant stress on customized UX/UI design and functionality.

Agriculture

Urban Farming IoT System for Plant Growth

An autonomous smart IoT plant growing system Fito Slim for urban farming. The product designed around a “plant and forget” philosophy, outperforming conventional soil and hydroponic solutions. The product allows users to manage the indoor plantation via a mobile application.

Consumer & wearable

3D body scanner

A high precision body scanner for fashion retail. The scanner design is a rotating platform with a set of digital cameras measuring body parameters. Digital images are then transferred via a Wi-Fi interface to a PC and undergo real-time conversion into a digital 3D model.

Vehicles

Truck Variator

A continuously variable frictionless transmission prototype (proof-of-concept) with high torque was developed and manufactured, based on a client’s patented invention. The prototype EnCata designed and built then went for static testing and further development.

Other

Digital fab lab to incubate hardware startups

MakeIT.Center is an automated fabrication laboratory (Fab Lab) franchise to incubate hardware projects. A technological space where anyone can rent advanced equipment and industrial tools to create almost any prototype from an idea to alpha-version independently or under the guidance of our operators.

Vehicles

A system for analyzing the parameters of the vessel's movement

Marineo is a unified information and telecommunication system that analyzes a vessel’s movement data and the surrounding hydrometeorological situation automatically. The installation cuts down on fuel use while also improving marine navigational safety.

IIoT & automation

AI-driven tools tracking system

AI-powered 5S tool boards use machine vision to track tool availability, ensuring no item is missing or checked out in the workshop. This system can be adapted to other industries that require continuous object recognition.

Smart building

Sludge Recycling Feasibility Study

The project concerned the technology and economic feasibility assessment of sludge treatment in the North of Oman. The study conceived the plan for the waste disposal plant construction with 100 tons daily of sludge utilization capacity.

IIoT & automation

IoT-powered CRM and ERP Software Platform for Manufacturing

IoT-driven cloud-connected platform for fabrication laboratory and makerspace workshops allowing tools and equipment rental. Software management system combines CRM and ERP features, multi user interface and allows makerspace easy scalability.

Other

Educational platform MakeIT School

MakeIT School is an educational platform for schools designed to popularize engineering among the youth by making learning the basics of design and prototyping feasible for aspiring engineers and high-school students.

Smart building

Digital transformation and feasibility study in construction

A digital transformation consultancy project for a large construction company from Europe with a focus on developing and implementing cutting-edge IoT technologies for service, utilities, residential houses, and building management.

Analytical & lab equipment

Healthcare

Fourier Spectrometer

We designed and produced the Fourier Spectrometer prototype based on an existing research lab prototype made by the customer. EnCata’s role included industrial design, mechanical and electrical engineering documentation, and a manufactured prototype.

Agriculture

Grain temperature monitoring system

A new design temperature transducer for grain crops and vegetable warehouses.

Other

Blockchain-based fund asset control system for issuing vouchers

A blockchain-based solution to control and manage three-party (service provider / donor / end-customer) contractual engagements. The voucher issuance system incorporates smart contracts and automates document flow, reducing overheads for all parties involved.

Consumer & wearable

IoT powered rodent detector

The detector monitors rodent presence in key areas like catering, food production, and farms. When a rodent enters, the sensor is triggered, and data about the detector's status and rodent count is sent to the cloud.

Healthcare

Consumer & wearable

Wearable medical smartwatch

The smartwatch monitors vital signs and alerts an ambulance if health declines. It can save lives after a heart attack or stroke, especially when the risk of recurrence is high. The bracelet also helps elderly users by notifying doctors and relatives if their health worsens.

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