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Client-Server platform to support an IoT environment

Our client is one of the leading service providers and equipment manufacturers for consumption-based energy cost billing in the world. They provide all-round service for measuring, visualizing and billing of energy and water consumption.

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Client-Server platform to support an IoT environment

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Challenge

The business case here is that our client manufactures meters and also offers/sells a client-server software solution where the service providers (that buy our client’s meters) can:

Organize meters in a Location hierarchy (Buildings/Tenants/Meters).
Allocate install/reading orders to technicians, that have the client application installed on their windows tablets. (a generic workflow put in place)
Configure smart devices (using driver provided by client) to read over Bluetooth the reading values of neighboring meters and send the values over GSM to a target server.
Automatically receive and store reading values from smart devices
Export the reading values to different formats (CSV, Excel) to be later imported in different tool for billing
Export reading values to SAP MDM system.

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Solution

The client was looking for a custom solution to support an IoT (Internet of things) environment that would help centralize the distribution of work to technicians for tasks like meter reading operations, installations and repairs. Infobest developed a main application that will help our client to tackle this tasks and more.

The main application is a desktop client server solution that aims to:

Organizing/configuring/repairing/reading various smart meters
Organization of meters at the owner and location level
Automatic recording of reading data received from smart meters that send this information via GSM
Data export to SAP billing or local modules in CSV/EXCEL format.