Get your motors spinning sooner

Let 20 years worth of motor control expertise help you succeed with your special application

1. Examining your application

As the first step we gather deep understanding of your technological and financial goals, as well as your capabilities. 


In some cases, the solution already starts becoming apparent during this process – the “oh, we never thought that!” moment.

2. Evaluating solution candidates

In the second step, we will brainstorm and filter out the most fit solutions for your project.  


As a independent freelancer, we’re not inclined to sell you "our proprietary solution".  Instead, we’re offering our unbiased recommendations that we believe to serve you best.

3. Kickstarting your project

In the final stage we assist you to get it done.


Thanks to Intensify's consultant's first-hand career on founding industrial motor control company, Granite Devices, Intensify is able to offer laser focused assistance from your idea to production. 


Services may range from hiring and/or training capable developers down to electronics and motor control algorithm development consultation.

About freelancer

Tero Kontkanen - motor control specialist.


Tero's professional history starts from the foundation of industrial motor drive & control company Granite Devices Inc, found in 2007 in Tampere, Finland.


His interest towards motor control development sparked from his back-in-the-days passion towards industrial robotics and CNC machines. In early 2000's he designed and built own CNC machine tools. These projects included development of tailor made servo and stepping motor drives harnessing the latest technologies. Enthusiasm combined with related MSc studies and hands-on development has taught Tero a lot about the soul of drives and motors.


Tero has accumulated over 20 years of know-how in motor control electronics and embedded software development. As an entrepreneur he has worked also years on developer team hiring, training and coaching.


As of 2025 Tero started to offer his skills outside Granite Devices to help organizations to realize their dreams with well-thought specialized motor controls solutions. 

20 years worth of skills

Motors

  • Permanent magnet motors (PMAC, BLDC, brush DC, stepping motors, voice coil)
  • Rotary, linear, radial flux, axial flux, PCB
  • Sub-Watt to 30 kW

Custom drive electronics

  • Motor control microcontrollers (STM32, TI, NXP, Microchip, etc.)
  • Various motor control IC’s (i.e. stepping motor drives)
  • Power electronics (MOSFET, IGBT, half-bridges, inverter modules)
  • Current sensing (shunt resistors, Hall sensor)
  • Position senor devices and encoders (quadrature, BiSS, SSI, Hiperface, EnDat, SinCos, special sensors)
  • PCB layout, heat management, EMC and EMI

Motor control algorithms

  • Field Oriented Control (FOC)
  • Closed loop controllers (PID, feed forward)
  • Torque, velocity, position control modes
  • Multi-axis trajectory generation
  • Digital signal processing (IIR, Biquad, FIR, noise filtering)
  • Field weakening technique
  • Load-cell sensor based force control

Embedded software

  • Drive firmware architectures
  • RTOS & bare-metal hard real-time software
  • Motor control peripherals
  • Vendor specific motor control libraries (i.e. ST MCSDK).

Off-the-shelf drives

  • EtherCAT and CANopen industrial drives
  • Low-level and application specific drives and modules
  • Open-source drives (VESC, etc)

Developer team building

  • Hiring, screening, interviewing
  • Training, coaching

References

Tero Kontkanen is the co-founder, developer, entrepreneur and CTO of a Finnish motor drive products company, Granite Devices. Their products include world famous IONI motor drives and SIMUCUBE 2 racing simulator force feedback controllers, as well as various Granite's customer specific motor control solutions.


As of 2025 Granite Devices employs 60 full-time persons. Granite Devices is globally known from their technology leader status in force-feedback simulator equipment brand Simucube (simucube.com).