Cloud portal for fog-based active protection systems
A portal that collects telemetry from and sends commands to security fog systems connected to customers' alarms, built for an Italian manufacturer.
UR Fog, based in Turin, manufactures active security protection systems: when an alarm triggers, the machine fills the space with dense fog within seconds, so there is nothing left to see and nothing left to steal. The company holds a number of patents in the segment.
I built the cloud portal for one of their IoT boards. Every customer can see the state of their machines and their connection to the alarm system, and commands travel in the other direction, from the portal down to the device.
Two things shaped the work. The first is that this is a two-way channel into a security device, which makes authentication, authorisation and the behaviour on a broken connection more important than any feature. The second was the platform itself: the original setup was replaced with ThingsBoard, which gave the devices a proper IoT backbone instead of a custom one.