Apart from the basic functionality required for such systems, we integrated the following features:
If you need to support your hardware system with IoT software, contact us.
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JatApp developed software for a portable IoT power bank sharing station for a French startup. We also built iOS and Android mobile applications for managing power banks.
A digital workplace doesn’t only mean a virtualized form of the traditional office environment.
It’s also about transforming the employee experience within the limits of a physical workspace.
Our client, a startup from France, came up with an idea to support digital transformation in the workplace by leveraging IoT technology to help people to be less attached to their work desks.
We helped the client develop software and mobile applications for their power bank sharing platform that allows employees to work on their computers anywhere around the office.
Our client is a French company based in Cannes. The startup allows companies, coworking spaces, and educational institutions to rent portable power banks and charging bases. When a user’s device is out of charge, or they want to change their work environment, users can take our client’s power bank and continue working from anywhere.
How does the product’s power station work? The station consists of a base and power banks. To take a power bank, a user needs to register on the platform via a mobile app and get validated by the admin. Once validated, the station unlocks a power bank for the user. When the user wants to return the power bank, they can simply put it back into the empty slot on the base.
Our client hired a professional product design team to develop the device: a charging base and power banks, but he still needed technical expertise to make the base and power banks communicate with each other. He found that expertise at JatApp.
We engaged with the project at the end of November and had to complete it by May when the device was expected to be produced and shipped from China. We had only six months to complete our work and we did it despite the tight schedule.
But because of the pandemic and shipping delays, the device was shipped to us only in September. To help the client speed up the time to market in these circumstances, the JatApp team developed an emulator to be able to test the hardware even without the real device.
Apart from the basic functionality required for such systems, we integrated the following features:
To achieve better security, we implemented a multi-step registration and verification process. It works as follows: a user registers with a mobile app and enters the base ID by scanning the QR code on the base. Next, a user has to be verified by the administrator, or the verification can be done automatically in case a corporate email address is entered when logging in.
The mobile application has an in-built QR code scanner that simplifies the process of unlocking a power bank.
Each power bank has a GPS tracker which limits their working radius. This way, users can’t take power banks far away from specified areas, like office buildings or university campuses.
Another feature we’ve implemented is a push notification system. When a user returns a power bank, they get a notification via the app that the device is successfully returned and how much time they were using it.
Today, our client has 24 registered organizations and more than 40,000 active users who charge their devices with our client’s branded power banks.
If you need to support your hardware system with IoT software, contact us.