NBE began by supporting the electronics industry through component supply. In 2020, we expanded that role with a clear vision: to help customers transform components and ideas into useful, connected and deployable systems.
Many people know NBE as a trusted electronic component supplier. Through years of working closely with customers, we gained exposure to a wide range of applications and technical challenges across different industries.
In 2020, NBE expanded its support capability by establishing an electronics and IoT engineering function. This complemented our existing component business by allowing us to assist customers in areas such as electronics design, embedded firmware, sensing technologies and connected systems when project requirements called for additional engineering support.
Today, NBE continues to support customers through both component supply and practical engineering solutions across a variety of industries.
Our engineering capability grew progressively through technical exploration, customer projects, proof-of-concept development and real-world deployment.
NBE built strong relationships within the electronics industry through component supply and customer support, gaining practical knowledge of sourcing, cost, manufacturability and application requirements.
NBE established an electronics and IoT engineering function and began exploring a variety of sensing, embedded firmware, connectivity and automation projects.
We developed a proof-of-concept smart waste collection machine for a town council, providing early experience in translating an operational requirement into a working customised system.
NBE was awarded a project to design and build an energy-monitoring device for the HDB smart-city initiative. Following development and validation, production began in 2023.
We expanded beyond measurement hardware by developing our own energy dashboards, mobile applications and data platforms, with support for both cloud-hosted and local-server deployment.
We developed a production yield counter to help factories monitor output, identify downtime and improve machine utilisation and operational visibility.
Our work expanded into occupancy sensing and automated appliance control, together with an energy evaluation platform supporting harmonics analysis and NILM-based appliance differentiation.
Our capability now covers the complete path from physical sensing to useful operational action.
Sensor interfaces, energy measurement, protection, communications and product-focused hardware design.
Stable device control, data acquisition, local decision-making and communications for deployable products.
Cloud-hosted or local-server data collection, historical storage, alarms and visualization.
Custom web pages, mobile applications, Power BI reporting and Tuya ecosystem integration.
Harmonics capture, trend analysis and NILM algorithms for differentiating appliance behaviour.
Presence-aware control and intelligent appliance operation to reduce avoidable energy consumption.
We began with measurement. We then learned how to retain, display and analyse the data. Today, we are extending that intelligence into control—so a system can not only report energy waste or abnormal behaviour, but also help prevent it.
This creates a more complete solution for customers: accurate sensing, clear visibility, earlier warning, deeper analytics and practical actions that improve efficiency.
Continue developing energy intelligence, preventive maintenance, local decision-making, NILM and smart control solutions that can work across buildings, factories and remote assets.
Remain flexible enough to support different customer platforms, deployment sizes and operating environments.
No project is too small to begin a useful collaboration. A proof-of-concept can become a product, and a single monitoring point can become a complete operational system.
We want the opportunity to understand each partner's application, operating challenge and commercial objective. From there, we can evaluate whether an existing NBE platform can be adapted or whether a customized solution is more suitable.
Whether the requirement is a small trial, a customer-specific development or a larger deployment, our team will support the engineering process and work toward a practical outcome.
• A real customer problem
• A measurable objective
• A practical pilot
• A pathway to scale
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