endorsedCompleted

Custom WiFi Mesh and IoT Framework Development

Services Covered:

Custom Software Development • Software Maintenance and Support • Software QA and Testing • IoT Development • Embedded Software Development • System Integration

Industry

Telecommunications

9 months

Budget

200K - 999K

Start Date

1 September 2018

Team Size

6-10

Engagement Model

Offshore

Project Capability Score (PCS)

74/100

Good

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Client

Confidential

United States of America

Project Summary

VOLANSYS served as the preferred system integration partner for a wireless IoT company, maintaining a legacy WiFi mesh product and developing bespoke IoT frameworks and testing tools. They built an extensible publish/subscribe framework, testing frameworks, and tooling to simplify OEM flashing and licensing. Their timely deliverables and transparent reporting streamlined processes, accelerated time-to-market, and helped improve customer retention.

Key Challenges

Develop an open-source, extensible framework atop a legacy WiFi mesh product to support IoT applications.
Simplify OEM flashing and licensing during end-node production.
Maintain and repair a legacy WiFi mesh product and overcome a steep learning curve for a long-term engagement.
Implement framework development, testing, and continuous integration.

Project Deliverables

Extensible real-time publish and subscribe framework
Application APIs for data send/receive and event pub/sub
Open-source robot framework for testing mesh networks and nodes
Python-based OpenWrt in-node flashing and licensing tooling
Maintenance and bug fixes for legacy WiFi mesh product

Project Solution

VOLANSYS established a time-and-material engagement to address the steep learning curve, provided maintenance and bug fixes for a proprietary legacy WiFi mesh product, and developed new software components. They built an extensible real-time publish/subscribe framework with application APIs for event-driven IoT use cases, created an open-source robot framework for automated testing of mesh networks and nodes, and implemented a Python-based OpenWrt in-node tool to simplify OEM flashing and licensing. The team also provided continuous integration, testing, and ongoing support leveraging embedded systems, firmware, Java, and QA expertise.

Project Outcome

Volansys' timely software development and testing expedited product time-to-market.
Work helped improve customer retention.
Regular status reporting and structured project management improved governance and transparency.
Vendor demonstrated initiative and dedicated engineering support.

Platforms

Embedded System
IoT

Tech Stack

Python
Java
Robot Framework
Linux

Client Endorsement

Overall Review Rating

Timeliness

Cost Rating

Willing to Refer

Quality of Deliverables

“VOLANSYS contributes deep experience in mesh networks and a thorough understanding of the technology’s challenges and complexity. Their efforts have streamlined multiple processes and directly contributed to higher customer retention. They foster transparency in reporting and seamless collaboration.”
Anonymous
Founder
Date: 04/25/2019