A 50+ year manufacturing and supply chain company

They wanted to manage any device anywhere, and we built for them a complete, fully-integrated Internet of Things (IoT) platform solution that allows for rapid deployment of applications across all devices for their current and future manufacturing customers.

Up and Running is part of the team that is building an application that is used for creating fully-integrated Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for a leading private manufacturing company. This is a client that specializes in the creation of electrical and mechanical devices throughout the whole process (from design to sourcing to assembly to supply chain management), and has been in business for over 50 years. The platform allows hardware devices to have remote monitoring, control, and alert messaging, permitting end customers to interact with their products anywhere in the world on any connected device. The platform is flexible, meaning it’s built to support different hardware platforms to accommodate different client needs, which is crucial for the client to be able to serve its many clients in a maintainable and scalable manner on the same platform. Once adopted, this system will support millions of devices.

What follows is a simple case study regarding how this solution could be used. A company that makes window blinds would be a possible customer of our client. Our client would manage as much of the manufacturing and supply chain management aspects for creating the window blind hardware as their customer wanted. Our client could also add the ability for the end consumers to download an application to interact with the window blinds anywhere in the world, perhaps to open and shut them per some defined schedule. Our client would also help their client push updates to the local controller, and interact with the consumers who purchased their products at the level they want to. The platform that was created would not only serve this client with every type of window blind they make, but the same software can be used to drive any such functionality for any device that they create for any customer. Its scale is large, and it will manage millions of devices as it’s adopted by our clients’ customers.

Web user interface and mobile applications exist to interact with and access every level of functionality, such as:

As one technical example of what we did presented at a greater level of detail, the project made heavy use of Apache Cordova. This is a mobile development platform that allows access to native functions on iOS or Android devices (more information link out). We used this to help the client create a solution that they could customize for their end customers.

The scale of this project made it a very interesting one, and we look forward to putting the platform to work for our client as it’s adopted by its current and future customers. Ubiquitous computing has been around for some time, but it’s safe to say that it’s going or has gone mainstream thanks to companies like Ring.com and Nest.com (owned by Google). Consumers want to interact with many of their devices remotely, or they simply want to be alerted when they need to do something in an efficient manner. Our platform enables all of this in a scalable manner for any device-focused company who works with our customer.

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