IoT with cloud-based solutions.
Amidst South Africa's energy challenges, Fluss has developed an IoT device to monitor backup supply for retailers, overcoming hurdles like diverse hardware setups and tricky environments. Fluss ensures seamless communication using various networks. Our cloud platform offers real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, and custom reports, empowering businesses to optimize operations.
The first challenge in developing the device was integrating with multiple different 3rd party hardware setups, understanding the different protocols and making sense of the data gathered - all this achieved on a low cost microcontroller and custom built circuit board.
The next challenge faced was the location of the actual hardware: in most instances, deep underground or surrounded by concrete, which meant getting signals out of any kind was problematic. In certain areas, certain networks such as SigFox and some commercial LoraWan networks were available, but not in others. The final scope includes over 1000 IoT devices that can plug in multiple different communication modules, including SigFox, NB-Iot, LTE, LoraWan or WiFi, depending on what is available in that part of the city, or in that particular part of the country.
The final challenge was the device commissioning, setup and deployment at scale across the country and using multiple different communication technologies at the same time. Our cloud based backend ingests data from multiple sources across various networks, stores the data securely and can initiate action based on any conditions represented in the data.
By providing real-time power monitoring and state of health of backup systems, organisations can centralise their operations and gain insight into their businesses. Fluss developed a multi-tenanted cloud based web platform for the data, that allows our customers to monitor energy consumption in real-time, identify inefficiencies, detect anomalies, and implement timely interventions to ensure the integrity of data and protect their hardware. The application provides real-time alerts, regular automated reporting and customisable reports that can be generated on the fly.
At Fluss we are building our capacity in order to provide turnkey IoT solutions for customers large and small throughout the world, with a particular focus on rapid custom hardware and software development, straightforward deployment and device management, simple integration with existing hardware and software and customisable reporting. Please feel free to reach out to us for any of your IoT needs at info@fluss.io.