Challenges
An adventure sports company faced difficulties in efficiently managing and securing their kayaking equipment, including safety vests, helmets, oars and the kayaks themselves. The company needed a solution that would streamline equipment access, enhance security, and provide real-time monitoring capabilities.
Solution
Xanthus provided a cutting-edge IoT-based mobile application, designed to address the challenges faced by the adventure sports company. The application offers the following features:
- Equipment Access Control:
The app allows specific users or groups to access the safe holding the equipment through the app itself. This eliminates the need for physical keys and enables seamless, secure equipment retrieval.
- Real-time Monitoring:
The IoT integration enables real-time monitoring of the safe’s status, providing instant updates on equipment availability, usage history, and any security breaches. The company can track equipment usage patterns and optimize resource allocation accordingly.
- Equipment Tracking:
Utilizing GPS and geolocation features, the app tracks the location of equipment when in use or during transportation. This allows the adventure sports company to accurately locate and retrieve misplaced or lost items quickly.
- Simplicity of use for the end-user:
Through a sleek and simple app, the user is able to figure out the availability of equipment at a given location and even unlock the locker.
Technology
Using a robust IoT framework, enabling seamless connectivity between the mobile application and the equipment safe, our developers utilized Android Studio and iOS Xcode to create a user-friendly and intuitive mobile application for both Android and iOS platforms. The application’s backend was developed using the MVC architecture to ensure efficient data management and system scalability. C# and Java was employed as the primary development language.
Result
With Xanthus’ IoT solution, the adventure sports company achieved significant improvements: