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Industrial Automation · Embedded Systems · IoT · AI

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Meet the team What we do
What we do

Our services

We mostly partner with innovative small companies and work with large and technically demanding organisations — from early-stage advice to full project delivery.

Core Business Lines
Consulting

Consulting

Independent, calculation-backed engineering advice for directors, leadership teams, and technical organisations. Vendor-neutral, always.

  • Feasibility & tech options
  • Platform & vendor selection
  • Technical due diligence
Mechatronics Engineering

R&D and Engineering

We take on the hard problems that corporate R&D teams need external depth for — mathematical modeling, algorithm design, and prototype-to-production development.

  • Mathematical modeling & simulation
  • Algorithm & firmware design
  • Engineering roadmap & PoC
Systems & Integration

Systems & Integration

Full system architecture for complex multi-layer programmes — from the sensor on the machine to the operator dashboard and enterprise data layer.

  • Multi-layer architecture
  • TwinCAT, STM32 & Edge AI
  • Physics-based simulation
End-to-End System Delivery

End-to-End Delivery

We own the full stack for large-scale deliveries — hardware design, embedded software, system integration, and on-site commissioning. We build, validate, and hand over a running system.

  • Hardware & firmware co-design
  • System integration & testing
  • On-site commissioning
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New Business Line

Maritime Intelligence & Strategic Advisory

Bridging quantitative modelling, geopolitical analysis, and maritime domain expertise for multinational shipping companies, logistics operators, and research institutions. We translate complex regulatory, trade, and route data into decision-ready insights.

Trade & Route Intelligence
  • Freight cost & route optimisation
  • Bunker & cost simulation models
  • AIS data analysis & vessel tracking
  • Cargo flow mapping by region
Regulatory & Geopolitical Risk
  • EU ETS & IMO compliance impact
  • Sanctions exposure analysis
  • Bosphorus & Black Sea policy
  • Conflict & trade disruption risk
Research & Proposals
  • TÜBİTAK & EU Horizon proposals
  • Ship simulation & training systems
  • Maritime automation & autonomy
  • Strategic intelligence reports
Expertise

What we know

Deep domain knowledge built across decades of work with major industrial groups, semiconductor companies, and defense contractors.

Policy & Decision
Policy & Decision

Translating industrial, legal, and logistical requirements into clear hardware and software specifications.

Factory Floor Industrial Automation
Industrial Automation

Deep control integrations across high-temp glass, ceramics, and heavy logistics facilities.

Industrial PLC Control Panel
Beckhoff TwinCAT

Industrial controller programming with TwinCAT 3 — PLC logic, motion control, servo drives, and full EtherCAT machine integration.

STM32 Embedded PCB Firmware
STM32 & Embedded Firmware

Custom real-time firmware on ARM Cortex-M4 — MQTT, HAL/LL drivers, IoT edge computing, and UART/SPI/I2C integrations for industrial hardware.

INDUSTRIAL ROBOT ARM ● ACTIVE
Industrial & Collaborative Robots

System integration with industrial robots, cobots, and SCARA robots — motion planning, real-time control, ROS 2 integration, and safety logic for factory environments.

Applied Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

Statistical modeling, algorithm design, and simulation — used to predict behavior before hardware is ever touched.

HMI SCADA Svelte
Real-Time HMI & SCADA

Real-time operator interfaces and SCADA-compatible web applications built with Svelte and SvelteKit — WebSocket data streams, live process dashboards, and cross-platform industrial web apps.

ADAS Autonomous Driving Sensor
ADAS & Autonomous Driving

Sensor fusion combining LiDAR, Camera, Radar, and V2X for Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) — real-time inference on NPU/Edge AI platforms.

Track Record

Clients & Projects

Major companies and institutions we have delivered engineering work for — spanning semiconductors, defense, industrial automation, and maritime.

Alcatel / STMicroelectronics Chip Design
Chip architecture design and functional verification & synthesis of digital circuits at the RTL level.
ASIC Front-EndVHDL/VerilogRTL ModelingSynopsys Synthesis Static Timing Analysis
Vestel Technology (VESTEK) Video Processing
Advanced image and video processing algorithm design and physical silicon deployment for consumer displays.
LED TV Video Processing AlgorithmsFPGAC/C++
Philips Semiconductors / NXP / ArrayComm Mobile Receiver Design
Signal processing and algorithm design for 3G/4G mobile terminal receivers — channel estimators, equalizers, interference cancellation, and multiuser detection.
Baseband DSPMatlabC/C++
Defense Industry Classified Work
Classified FPGA engineering work covering video encoding/decoding and GPS signal protection for tactical systems.
Video CodecGPS Anti-JamXilinx System GeneratorMatlab
GCA Glass Automation PLC Design
Turnkey PLC machinery logic, specialized thermal camera integrations, and machine vision inspection systems.
TwinCAT 3C++ST (Structured Text)Computer/Thermal VisionAutomation
Analog Devices / Mulberry Sensors / Aceinna Sensor Fusion
Multi-sensor data fusion, 3D orientation algorithms, and signal processing for precise pose estimation systems. DSP for QCL Gas Sensing.
Sensor FusionQCL DSP (C/C++/Python/Matlab)LabView Comsol Multiphysics
Public Transit Authority Classified
Full semi-autonomous safety stack for a high-frequency urban bus rapid transit corridor — integrating RTK positioning, V2X communication, camera, radar, and sensor fusion into a real-time ADAS platform. The system enforces corridor-wide dynamic speed limits, delivers Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB), and ensures controlled deceleration into stations — bringing semi-autonomous behaviour to a fleet operating in dense urban traffic.
RTK PositioningV2XSensor FusionFCW / AEBCamera + RadarEdge AI
Maritime Industry Onboarding
Now expanding into maritime
Strategic intelligence, route modelling & regulatory advisory
Embedded & IoT systems — firmware for shipboard hardware
Industrial automation & system integration at sea
Machine vision & AI on Edge hardware
End-to-end delivery — concept to commissioning
AIS AnalyticsRoute OptimisationIMO Compliance
Technologies

Tools & stack

Languages, platforms, and modeling environments we work with every day.

Languages
C / C++ Python JavaScript VHDL / Verilog Structured Text Matlab
Platforms
Svelte / SvelteKit STM32 Beckhoff TwinCAT CUDA / OpenCL TensorFlow PyTorch Keras ONNX OpenCV
Signal Processing & Modeling
Signal Processing Matlab / Simulink Comsol Multiphysics Monte Carlo Simulation Numerical Methods 3D Kinematics & Motion Sensor Fusion Algorithms
Applied Maths
Linear Algebra Differential Equations Statistics & Probability Operations Research Statistical Modeling Optimization Theory
Marine & Policy
AIS & Vessel Tracking Geopolitical Risk Analysis EU ETS / IMO Compliance Bosphorus & Black Sea Policy Sanctions & Trade Risk Freight & Route Optimisation
The team

Meet the people

Engineering depth and industrial strategy — a unique team with a track record spanning major multinationals, five countries, and three decades of advanced technical projects.

Electrical Engineering
Ahmet Baştuğ
Academic · Engineer · Founder
Ahmet Baştuğ, PhD
Computer Engineering Faculty Member with Electrical Engineering Background
  • Education: PhD from EURECOM / ENST France. MSc from Boğaziçi University, BSc from METU.
  • Industry Roles: Formally Principal Architect & Research Fellow at Vestel, Analog Devices, Philips/NXP.
  • Research: Active contributor across EU Horizon 2020 and TÜBİTAK nodes — engineering-led applied research. More than 20 international patents.
  • Focus: Industrial automation, embedded systems (STM32), computer vision, and AI deployment on real hardware.
Beckhoff PLCs Embedded C++ Edge AI Computer Vision Svelte HMI
Get in touch
ahmet.bastug@ionia.com.tr
+90 532 442 9237
linkedin.com/in/ahmetbastug
Academic Profile Portal
Navigational Bridge of Container Vessel
Hüseyin Baştuğ
Research Associate & Policy Analyst
Hüseyin Baştuğ
MSc Maritime Studies — Istanbul Technical University
  • Education: BSc in Political Science & Public Administration from Bilkent University (Full Scholar).
  • Operations: Hands-on production planning history inside large-scale Turkish glass manufacturing plants (GCA).
  • Domain: Turning legal, maritime, and geopolitical data into engineering requirements and risk frameworks.
  • Capabilities: Advanced quantitative model building in Python/MATLAB.
Maritime Policy Supply Chain Risk TÜBİTAK Framework Python Modeling
Get in touch
huseyin.bastug@ionia.com.tr
+90 507 894 9096
linkedin.com/in/hüseyin-b
Istanbul Technical University — Maritime Faculty
Partner Network & Trusted Collaborators

When a project needs more hands, we bring in vetted engineering specialists — no learning curve, just capacity.

YT Control
PLC programming, SCADA integration & rail system control
Ogün Erkutay
.NET full-stack developer — backend systems & Robotics AI integrations
Ali Asghar
Industrial automation, robotics & real-time systems engineering
Ahmet Güven
Asst. Prof. — ML, LLMs & data science; digital transformation advisory