Engineering density
148
Full-time employees across Boulder, Munich, and Singapore. 71% hold engineering or computer-science degrees.
Company · Founded 2011
Engineers first. Vendors second.
Pervasive Systems was started in a Boulder garage by engineers from Bosch, Intel, and NASA JPL who were tired of stitching together four vendors to ship one embedded product. Fifteen years later we still design hardware, firmware, and orchestration in the same building — and the teams we serve are the ones who notice.
Origin Story
We left large institutions to build the embedded stack we wished we'd had.
In 2011, four engineers — two from Bosch's automotive controls group, one from Intel's embedded architecture lab, and one from NASA JPL's flight software team — quit their respective posts in the same week. They were spending more time integrating vendor stacks than solving the underlying problem, and the off-the-shelf platforms of the era were not designed for fleets that had to survive ten years on a factory floor.
They set up shop in a converted garage in north Boulder with three goals: write a maintained Yocto distribution tight enough to ship in production, build an orchestration layer that treated every node as a first-class citizen rather than a thin client, and stay close enough to the hardware to debug a firmware fault without a ticket queue.
Fifteen years later those three commitments still drive every release. PEL now ships pre-validated on fourteen System-on-Module families. The orchestration software manages 38,400+ nodes across four continents. And our engineers still co-design with your team from proof-of-concept through fleet rollout — typically cutting time-to-production by eleven months versus in-house builds.
- BoschAutomotive real-time controls
- IntelEmbedded architecture & BSPs
- NASA JPLFlight software & fault tolerance
Global Presence
The numbers an engineering director quotes back to their VP.
Verified as of Q1 2026. We publish these because they are the same figures our customer audits check against.
Edge footprint
38,400+
Edge nodes under active management across 27 countries and four continents, as of February 2026.
Fleet uptime
99.982%
Trailing-12-month measured uptime across managed deployments, ending December 2025.
Time-to-first-production
14 wk
Average customer time-to-first-production-deployment. Eleven months faster than the 65-week in-house benchmark (2024 customer survey, n=212).
Recognition
Analysts, trade press, and standards bodies have already done the first round of vetting.
Pervasive Systems has been independently evaluated across analyst reports, industry awards, and customer surveys. Below are the third-party signals most often cited by procurement and architecture review boards.
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Analyst Recognition
IDC MarketScape — Major Player, Industrial IoT Platforms for Heavy Industry (2025)
Listed as a Major Player in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for Industrial IoT Platforms for Heavy Industry, reflecting our installed base across metals, mining, and heavy manufacturing customers.
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Analyst Recognition
Gartner Cool Vendor in Edge Computing (2024)
Named a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor in Edge Computing, recognizing our approach to time-sensitive edge inference and managed fleet orchestration across heterogeneous SoM platforms.
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Trade Award
Embedded Computing Design — Edge Platform of the Year (2023)
Winner of the 2023 Embedded Computing Design "Edge Platform of the Year" award for the Pervasive Edge Linux (PEL) distribution and the Pervasive Device Cloud orchestration layer.
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Customer Signal
NPS of +71 across 212 surveyed enterprise accounts (2024)
Our 2024 customer survey (n=212 enterprise accounts) returned a Net Promoter Score of +71 — well above the industrial software benchmark and a leading indicator of multi-year renewals.
Engineering Depth
Open-ecosystem reach, classified-program trust, and a patent portfolio that does the talking.
The same engineering team that contributes to public Thread and Matter reference ecosystems is the team cleared onto federal programs. Four signals our customers most often point to when they reference us internally.
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Open Ecosystem
4,300+ developers on the free Pervasive Device Cloud tier
Our public Pervasive Device Cloud tier supports 100 devices indefinitely and is actively used by more than 4,300 developers as a sandbox before commercial conversion — the largest open-ecosystem footprint among edge orchestration vendors we benchmark against.
- Active developers
- 4,300+
- Free tier device cap
- 100 devices
- Commercial conversion path
- Available
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Intellectual Property
17 patents in mesh networking, edge inference, and secure onboarding
Pervasive Systems holds 9 granted patents and 8 pending applications spanning mesh networking, time-sensitive edge inference, and secure device onboarding — the core technologies our reference platforms are built on.
- Granted
- 9
- Pending
- 8
- Total portfolio
- 17
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Federal Programs
Sole-source supplier on three U.S. DoD programs
We are a sole-source supplier on three U.S. Department of Defense programs and a registered participant in the Matter and Thread reference ecosystems — the same engineering organization supports both.
- U.S. DoD programs
- 3 (sole-source)
- Matter reference
- Registered
- Thread reference
- Registered
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Certifications
ISO 9001:2015 since 2014 · SOC 2 Type II since 2021
Pervasive Systems has held ISO 9001:2015 certification since 2014 and SOC 2 Type II attestation since 2021 — the baselines our enterprise and federal customers audit against.
- ISO 9001:2015
- Since 2014
- SOC 2 Type II
- Since 2021
- Attestation cycle
- Annual
Next Step
Put a solutions engineer in front of your architecture problem in 30 minutes.
Book a 30-minute Edge Architecture Review with a Pervasive Systems solutions engineer. The call is a working session, not a pitch — bring a diagram, a constraint, or a target SKU and leave with a concrete path from proof-of-concept to fleet rollout.
- A scoped review of your current edge-to-cloud topology and integration risk surface.
- A reference SoM and PEL BSP recommendation matched to your environment, not a generic quote.
- An honest timeline range toward first production deployment, anchored against our 14-week average.
No SDR gate, no slide deck. The engineer who takes the call is the same engineer who scopes the proof-of-concept. If we are not a fit, we will say so on the call.