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Cool the controller before pilot tooling closes

You’re the hardware / mechanical / manufacturing engineer. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 15, 2026.

The enclosure protects the controller while trapping heat where the PoE load peaks.

Cabinet-ready assembly must preserve tamper resistance and keep power components inside their thermal limits.

Who you’d be doing this for

“We can’t send someone to reboot a controller every time a busy entrance heats up.”

Lars Haugen · Security Administrator

Manages door access across a multi-site healthcare organization preparing to install wireless locks.

What is at stake

Pilot controllers restart after hours of busy door traffic inside cabinets. You must weigh a fast enclosure change against manufacturability and validation evidence.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • thermal margin vs. tooling schedule
  • tamper protection vs. heat removal
  • board stability vs. enclosure change
  • fast evidence vs. repeatable validation

Why Verkada

Combined controller and wireless-hub hardware has to stay reliable in the cabinets where distributed sites run their doors.

Written with these in mind

product design mechanical engineerhardware validation engineermanufacturing-minded hardware engineer

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This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.