Prototype development should proceed incrementally.
Each subsystem should first be validated independently before becoming part of the complete engineering platform.
Typical development stages include:
- Laboratory evaluation of individual materials.
- Validation of hydraulic behaviour.
- Integration of environmental sensors.
- Communication testing.
- Cloud platform integration.
- Artificial Intelligence evaluation.
- Complete system integration.
- Pilot deployment.
This progressive methodology simplifies troubleshooting while reducing technical risk.
Problems identified early are generally less expensive to resolve than those discovered after full system integration.