Sterylis

Sterilizers are innovative disinfecting and sterilizing units with an air filtration function used at homes, schools, petrol stations, and hospitals.

After logging into the application, the device's owner - enterprise, service, or consumer - can see and change the parameters and previous settings of all the owned sterilizers regardless of their location.

The STERYLIS app provides access to both static data, such as information about the address and the exact room in which it is located; and dynamic data, such as the device's current configuration, external influencing factors, or power of operation.

This application was created in cooperation with Intsol, the business partner leading the project and building the backend infrastructure for future Flutter-based apps.

The IoT Industry has become an important part of the enterprise, public, and consumer segments. Spending on software and hardware related to IoT are projected to grow from US$726 billion worldwide in 2019 to US$1.1 trillion in 2023 (according to a market research report).

Using its sensors, network, and analytics, IoT provides the core tools to focus on key drivers as safety, efficiency, quality control, cost reduction, and revenue growth. The STERYLIS application offers a solution that takes advantage of IoT capabilities and translates them for the user's benefit.

Processing data at every stage helps control air quality and enables operators to take corrective actions in real time. In addition, organizations can pursue their efforts to provide a safe working environment and protect employee health with solutions that enable them to operate devices remotely.

We used the cross-platform Flutter framework for building both apps, and we connected to the .NET backend for the STERYLIS app.

The STERYLIS app had to provide different device management capabilities, including tenant selection, device metadata editing, and registering devices to the tenants. The app had to display all available device information in real time and be able to edit all available configuration parameters.

As STERYLIS Pure was only a control app, the entire scope of work was known at the beginning - the user should be able to discover, connect, and control STERYLIS devices. The controlling was done over a custom device protocol, which had to be replicated in the app.

The app also had to show live device data by maintaining an active connection and polling the device. Implementing multiple safeguards over the native Bluetooth calls had to be done to ensure a clean user experience despite the various native Bluetooth quirks. Here, you can read more about connecting BLE devices with Flutter apps.