Company needed to build complete solution for the homeowner to control the water inlet, leak detection and remote valve control
Project Period : 6 Months
Team Size : 10 members
Protocols Used: Thread, MQTT, 6LowPan
Challenge
Outcome
| WHAT DID GADGEON DO? | PLATFORMS/TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES USED |
| 1) Architecture for complete system including ZigBee based end node, ZigBee Hub, Gateway, Cloud and Mobile App | Requirements Gathering & Analysis, Uses cases, Architecture development, identification of functional components. |
| 2) Hardware design, prototyping, boardbring up for ZigBee based end node and Hub | Cadence allegro, optimized for battery powered operation, |
| 3) Linux Gateway | Off-the-shelf Hardware (beaglebone Black) was used with the Linux application(cpp), Silicon labs radio chip for Thread protocol, MQTT to connect to the server. |
| 4) Cloud server | Express framework based node.js REST API server, AWS RDS database, MongoDB and AWS S3 for storage, sms notifications using Twilio server, push notifications via Google Cloud Messaging and Apple Push Notification Service, eMail using SMTP server. AWS platform for hosting the cloud server: Mosquito MQTT broker |
| 5) Mobile App design and development for controlling and managing the watermeter | MVC architecture, encrypted databases, realtime notifications using MQTT & GCM, REST API based alert generation, Followed the recommended design patterns from Apple and Google. |
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