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OEM Partnership Program

Your product isn't complete
until it's a connected, intelligent system.

Viaanix gives OEMs a full stack — hardware, firmware, software, and AI — to launch connected products faster and turn one-time sales into recurring revenue.

One partner. Zero stack gaps. Every layer covered.

73%

of OEM buyers now require connectivity as a baseline purchase requirement

4+

vendors the average OEM manages across hardware, firmware, cloud, and AI

the lifetime revenue potential of a connected product versus a standalone hardware sale

18mo

lost on average when OEMs build IoT infrastructure from scratch internally

The OEM Challenge

Most OEMs know they need smarter products. Few have the stack to build them fast enough.

OEMs are getting squeezed from both sides. Customers are demanding real-time visibility, remote support, and AI-driven insights — features that weren't on the roadmap two years ago. Meanwhile, competitors are shipping connected products faster than ever. The challenge isn't desire. It's execution.

18mo+

Time-to-Market Drag

avg build time

Connected product projects average 18 months or more when built from scratch. By the time you ship, the market has already moved and the opportunity has narrowed.

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4+

The Four-Vendor Problem

vendors to manage

Hardware. Firmware. Cloud platform. AI layer. Four vendors, four contracts, four sets of fingers pointing at each other when something breaks. Nobody owns the outcome.

Hardware says: firmware issue
5+

Platform Fragmentation

disconnected systems

Disconnected tools produce disconnected experiences. When your data lives in five different systems, your customers feel it — and your support team drowns in it.

CRM
ERP
IoT
CMMS
BI
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Revenue Left on the Table

recurring revenue

Your competitors are already monetizing monitoring, analytics, and remote support as subscription services. Your hardware team was never designed to build a SaaS business.

5+

Connectivity Complexity

protocol options

BLE, LoRa, 4G/5G, satellite — choosing, integrating, and certifying a communications stack is a full engineering project on its own, before you've built anything on top.

BLEUncertified
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AI Is Moving Without You

AI-ready

Buyers are walking into evaluations asking about predictive diagnostics, intelligent alerts, and conversational interfaces. Most OEM product stacks were never architected for any of it.

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Conversational AIN/A
The Uncomfortable Truth

If your product isn't connected, it isn't just behind. It's already dying.

This isn't a prediction about some distant future. It is happening right now, in your market, to products that look exactly like yours.

This is how it always unfolds. It is not sudden. That is what makes it so dangerous.

Year 1

You Still Win Deals

Your product works. Your customer relationships hold. Nothing feels broken from the inside. But a connected competitor has entered your market quietly. Their demo has a live dashboard. A few deals go sideways.

Year 2

The Conversations Change

Your sales team starts hearing questions they don't have good answers to. Does it have remote monitoring? Can we get automated alerts? You lose a flagship account to a competitor whose product costs more but comes with a platform.

Year 3

The Discount Spiral

To stay competitive you begin cutting price. Margins shrink. R&D budgets get trimmed. The connected competitor is upselling analytics subscriptions to their growing installed base — customers who used to be yours.

Year 4

Commoditization

You are no longer in a conversation about value. You are in a conversation about price. Your product is functionally identical to three lower-cost alternatives because you have nothing to differentiate on.

Year 5

The Reckoning

New logos have stopped coming in. A full rebuild would take three years and capital your business no longer has. This is not a turnaround story. This is the end of a product line.

The Hard Number

Connected product competitors are displacing traditional OEMs at an accelerating rate. Every month you spend evaluating is a month your competitor spends deploying.

The Brutal Truth

Hardware that cannot talk is hardware that cannot justify its price. Hardware that cannot justify its price gets replaced — first in the deal, then in the relationship, then across the entire category.

The Exit from Fear

You are reading this page. That means you have not waited too long. The OEMs who move now still have the time and the market position to lead. That window is open. It will not stay open indefinitely.

The question is no longer whether your product needs to be connected. The question is whether you build that capability yourself or partner with someone who has already built it.

The Shift

You don't need to build a platform.
You need to own one.

Today's product must do more than function physically. It must identify itself, report its health, communicate usage patterns, accept remote updates, and integrate into your customer's daily workflows. That is not a firmware patch. That is a platform play.

Build It Yourself

0 months

Time to market

$0.0M+

Engineering cost

  • 18 to 36 months to first customer delivery
  • 3 to 5 vendors to coordinate and manage
  • Custom stack your team maintains indefinitely
  • Hardware team distracted by software problems
  • High capital cost, uncertain outcome

Partner with Viaanix

18 months90 days
Done
  • Launch a connected product in months, not years
  • One accountable partner across every layer
  • Production-tested, field-proven stack
  • Your hardware team stays focused on what they do best
  • Predictable cost, scalable architecture

The real question OEMs face isn't whether to add connectivity — it's how to become a software-enabled business without losing what makes your hardware great.

The Solution

Everything your connected product needs. Nothing you have to build yourself.

Viaanix is the only partner that covers every layer — from the circuit board to the AI layer. We don't just provide a cloud platform or a firmware SDK. We act as your connected-product division, giving you the hardware, software, and intelligence to launch a full product ecosystem under your brand.

Layer: Edge

The physical foundation of your connected product

Custom Hardware & Electronics

IoT-ready boards, sensors, and gateways designed around your product's form factor, environment, and power requirements. Engineered for production from the start.

Embedded Firmware

Production-grade firmware with OTA updates, secure boot, hardware abstraction, and device management built in from day one.

Connectivity Stack

BLE, LoRa, 4G/5G, satellite — we select, integrate, and certify the right communications layer for your use case and cost targets.

Custom PCB & enclosure designOTA firmware updatesProtocol-agnostic (BLE, LoRa, 4G/5G)Edge compute & real-time processing
Layer: Platform

The operating system for your connected product

ArgusIQ

Asset tracking, health monitoring, usage analytics, workflow automation, and customer-facing dashboards — all in one place, all white-labeled under your brand.

Digital Identity & Lifecycle

Every unit provisioned with a unique digital identity at first power-on. Every event, firmware update, and service interaction tracked and auditable.

White-Label Experience

Your customers never see Viaanix. They see your brand, your dashboard, your platform. We are invisible infrastructure.

Digital asset registry & lifecycleWorkflow engine & automation rulesMulti-tenant with recursive sub-customersWhite-label: your brand, zero code changes
Layer: Intelligence

AI that makes your product genuinely smart

Ask Argus

Conversational AI built natively into your platform. Customers ask questions in plain language about asset health, utilization, and anomalies — and get instant, accurate answers.

ArgusAI

On-premise and air-gapped AI for defense, critical infrastructure, and regulated industries where cloud is not an option. Full intelligence without cloud dependency.

ArgusForge

Rapid application and workflow builder. Extend functionality, create custom integrations, and launch new features without re-platforming.

Conversational AI (Ask Argus)Air-gapped AI (ArgusAI)Rapid app builder (ArgusForge)Predictive analytics & anomaly detection

Viaanix helps OEMs own more of the value chain — before the sale, after the sale, and throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Full-Stack Capability

From silicon to SaaS — one partner, no handoffs.

Most OEMs coordinate 6–10 vendors to ship a connected product. We replace the entire chain with a single accountable team that covers hardware, firmware, cloud, and intelligence.

8 vendors1 Viaanix

Hardware Engineering

Custom PCB designSensor integrationEnclosure engineeringPower managementRF & antenna designCertifications (FCC/CE/UL)

Software & Firmware

Embedded firmwareOTA updatesSecure bootDevice managementProtocol stacksMobile apps (iOS/Android)

IoT Platform

ArgusIQ platformAsk Argus AIArgusForge appsMulti-tenant architectureWhite-label brandingAnalytics & reporting
The Journey

From hardware product to intelligent platform. Together.

Seven stages. One partner. We move with you from the first conversation to full-scale deployment and beyond.

Stage 01

We Listen First

Every engagement starts with understanding your product, your customers, and the ecosystem you want to build. We align on vision, business model, and revenue strategy before a single line of code is written.

Stage 02

We Design Your Edge

Custom hardware, firmware, and connectivity — engineered for your form factor, environment, and cost targets. Production-ready and field-validated before we move forward.

Stage 03

We Bring It Online

IoT and RTLS infrastructure that brings your units online — BLE, LoRa, 4G/5G, or satellite. Every device connects, registers, and begins reporting from the moment it powers on.

Stage 04

Every Unit Gets an Identity

Each device provisioned into ArgusIQ with a unique digital identity — health status, location, firmware version, and full lifecycle history. Your fleet becomes a managed, intelligent asset base.

Stage 05

Your Customers See the Difference

Branded dashboards, real-time alerts, automated workflow triggers, and AI features — delivered entirely under your brand. Your customers engage with your platform.

Stage 06

You Build on Top of It

ArgusForge enables you or your customers to add new applications, third-party integrations, and custom workflows without re-engineering the foundation.

Stage 07

It Scales With You

From 100 units to 100,000. From one enterprise account to dozens across multiple verticals. Multi-tenant architecture without re-platforming.

Why OEMs Partner with Viaanix

Building connected products is no longer just a hardware project.

OEMs partner with Viaanix because speed, risk, revenue, and competitive position are all on the line at the same time.

For the Product VP

Faster Time-to-Market

Ship a connected product without years of backend development slowing your roadmap. Our stack is production-tested and ready to integrate with your hardware program today.

For the CTO

One Partner, Full Accountability

No more coordinating between four vendors who each own one piece of the stack and none of whom own the outcome. We are accountable for every layer — hardware through AI.

For the Sales & Marketing

Differentiation You Can Demo

Real-time dashboards, AI diagnostics, intelligent alerts, and a white-labeled platform your competitors cannot replicate quickly. Your demo becomes a software experience buyers remember.

For the CEO & CFO

Recurring Revenue That Compounds

Turn your hardware invoice into a monthly subscription. Monitoring, analytics, remote support, firmware management — predictable revenue that grows with every unit in the field.

For the Customer Success

Customers Who Stay

When your customers open your platform every day to manage operations, churn becomes structurally rare. You own the digital experience. You own the customer relationship.

For the The Board

A Foundation for What Comes Next

Predictive maintenance, autonomous operations, digital twins, AI-native workflows — the platform we build with you today is the foundation your roadmap needs for 2027 and beyond.

The OEMs that win next will not just sell products. They will sell intelligent systems. The time to build that capability is now.

OEM Use Cases

From the factory floor to the digital frontier.

Viaanix powers connected product ecosystems across every major hardware vertical.

Smart Factory Equipment

OEMs shipping industrial machinery give products built-in monitoring, predictive maintenance, and remote diagnostics. Unplanned downtime drops. Service contracts evolve from reactive to proactive.

Up to 60% reduction in unplanned downtime in Year 1.
Condition Monitor
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Robot Cell 7
PM Due
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Intelligent Fleet Devices

Mobile asset OEMs enable full asset tracking, utilization reporting, geofencing, and automated dispatch scheduling across any geography and fleet size.

Full fleet visibility across multiple regions from a single dashboard.
Fleet View
3 regions · 142 units

Connected Industrial Monitors

OEMs building sensors, gauges, and measurement instruments add live telemetry, threshold alerts, and AI-driven anomaly detection to previously silent hardware.

Anomalies identified hours earlier than manual inspection cycles.
Anomaly Detection
Spike detected — 2hrs early

Facility Control Systems

OEMs in building technology bring HVAC, power management, environmental sensors, and access control into one unified platform.

Three buildings. One screen. Zero fragmented tooling.
Unified View
Building 1All systems normal
Building 2HVAC alert
Building 3All systems normal

White-Label Software Platforms

OEMs who want software as a core part of their product deliver fully branded dashboards, mobile apps, and AI features powered entirely by Viaanix infrastructure.

Branded IoT platform live within 90 days of engagement.
Your Brand

AI-Enabled Product Ecosystems

OEMs deploy Ask Argus as a native customer-facing assistant. End customers query assets in plain language and get proactive recommendations based on real-time data.

40% reduction in support ticket volume.
Ask Argus

"Which units need attention?"

3 units flagged. RTU-042: vibration trending. Pump #9: overdue PM.

Why Now

The market is not waiting. Neither are your competitors.

Three forces are accelerating simultaneously, and the window to act as a first-mover is getting narrower every quarter.

1

Your buyers have already seen what connected looks like.

Industrial and B2B buyers who have experienced real-time dashboards, AI diagnostics, and remote support in one product will not accept silent hardware in the next purchase cycle. That expectation does not reset.

2

Your competitors are not waiting for you to figure out IoT.

In most hardware verticals, the top three to five OEM players already have connected product programs either in market or in active development. Every month you spend evaluating is a month your competitor spends deploying.

3

The platforms that win in 2026 define the category for a decade.

Hardware commoditizes. Platforms compound in value. The OEMs who own the software experience own the customer relationship — and that relationship produces recurring revenue, stickiness, and pricing power that standalone hardware can never generate.

Where This Goes

Tomorrow's products won't just report data. They'll act on it.

The products that lead markets in 2028 will know what they are, where they are, how they are being used, and what action to take next — without waiting for a human to make a decision. Viaanix gives OEMs that foundation now.

Predictive Service

Devices that identify their own failure mode and initiate a service workflow before the failure occurs — eliminating unplanned downtime entirely.

Autonomous Calibration

Products that self-adjust operating parameters based on real-world usage patterns and environmental conditions — without field technician intervention.

Fleet-Level Intelligence

AI systems that process data across thousands of deployed units simultaneously and surface prioritized, actionable recommendations to operations teams.

Digital Twin Integration

Every physical product paired with a live, queryable, continuously updated digital counterpart — enabling simulation, diagnostics, and design feedback loops.

Deployment

Deploy the ecosystem your customers actually need.

Not every OEM sells into the same market or regulatory environment. Viaanix supports every deployment architecture so you can sell into commercial, industrial, and secure markets without rebuilding your stack.

Cloud

Fully managed SaaS — the fastest path to market with enterprise-grade reliability, automatic scaling, and zero infrastructure overhead.

Private Cloud

Dedicated tenant environment for OEMs with data residency requirements or enterprise customers who require isolated infrastructure.

On-Premise

Full platform deployed inside your customer's data center — for organizations where data leaving the building is not an option.

Air-Gapped

Complete platform and AI for defense, critical infrastructure, and high-security environments where network connectivity to external systems is prohibited.

Don't just connect your product. Transform it into a platform.

OEMs who move now will build customer loyalty, recurring revenue streams, and competitive advantages that are genuinely difficult for late-movers to replicate. The technology gap between a connected OEM and a hardware-only OEM compounds every year. So does the revenue gap.

Viaanix provides everything — hardware, software, AI, and lifecycle management.

We handle the rest.

The future belongs to products that are systems. Your customers are ready for it. Your market is demanding it. Your competitors are working on it. Let's build yours.