Engineering products and services
From the field to the back office,
we engineer the systems your operation runs on.
Outlier Engineering Group is a Jacksonville, FL engineering team that designs and ships custom hardware and software: rail-spec by specialty, capable across any industry.
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What we do
Services across the stack
From custom hardware design to back-office software, with deep expertise in rail-spec, industrial IoT, and embedded systems.
Embedded Software Development
Bare-metal and Linux-based firmware and applications for rail-spec hardware. Full lifecycle: architecture, implementation, validation, deployment.
Learn more →Hardware Design
Custom electronic device and system design tailored to client requirements: schematic, layout, AREMA-compliant rail-spec, mass-production-ready.
Learn more →Back-Office Systems
On-premises and cloud back offices with high availability, low operational cost, and seamless integration with existing IT investments.
Learn more →Asset Tracking
Tracking solutions for mobile and fixed assets: sensors, edge devices, gateways, and the back-end that ties them together.
Learn more →IoT & Edge Computing
Real-time analytics at the edge: sensor integration, protocol translation, predictive analytics on resource-constrained devices.
Learn more →Business Intelligence
Data visualization, automation, and operational dashboards. We make field data actionable for the people who use it.
Learn more →Knorr-Bremse Signaling Certified Developer Program
We build certified applications for the WSDMM platform.
In January 2025, KB Signaling launched the WSDMM Certified Developer Program, which opened their wayside-intelligence edge-computing platform to third-party application development. WSDMM has been deployed in the thousands across North America since 2019 and is AREMA- and CENELEC-compliant.
Outlier Engineering Group builds and owns its rail software products, and is a certified developer for the program. BattTrackIQ is in production today and EventRecorderIQ is demo-ready; both are also available as KB Signaling App Partner products, validated through KBS's automated test pipeline and backed by KBS Tier-1 support.
Products
A platform and a growing product line.
A growing portfolio of OEG-owned rail software, from products shipping today to our roadmap, plus the Wayside Watcher platform.
Wayside Watcher™
Detection without doubt. Records that verify themselves.
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BattTrackIQ
Real-time battery monitoring and predictive analytics for smart chargers.
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EventRecorderIQ
Modern crossing event recording that accepts existing SEAR configurations.
Learn more →More apps to come
More rail software applications on our roadmap.
View full roadmap →Selected work
Built, deployed, and operating.
Recent projects across rail, industrial, and embedded engagements.
ASCTD Embedded Application Development
Full-stack embedded software ownership for an AAR-certified automated railcar test device, from bare-metal C and Yocto Linux to OTA updates and AWS CI/CD.
CSX Smart Crossing
Complete edge software stack for CSX grade crossing monitoring that unified multi-vendor field equipment and built the first native CAMS/WAMS integration outside of Siemens.
WayLink Touch JE
Joint hardware and software development of a rail-spec jumper enforcement device that enforces Out-of-Service policy, tracks field presence, and integrates with the Wayside Watcher platform.
The team
80+ years of engineering experience.
A team of engineers, an operations lead, and a vetted partner network. Based in Jacksonville, Florida, working with clients across North America.
James
Barge
Chief Product Officer
Jason
Cobb
Chief Technology Officer
David
Meadows
Director of Engineering
Nghiep
Thai
Director of Operations
Josette
Cobb
Operations Manager
Partner
Network
Trusted partners