Mobile phone with an app to control a coffee machine

Technical Apps for Smartphones, Tablets and PC

for Android, iOS and Windows

Customer's Challenge

In the age of digitalization and „Industry 4.0” the complex, difficult-to-use solution had become obsolete. The end users, but also the service and commissioning specialists demanded simple and user-friendly solutions for configuration, use and diagnosis.

Outcome

An app (application) on a tablet or rather just an app on the own smartphone which can access the equipment wirelessly.

But which smartphone: Android oder Apple iOS? And do we not want to be able to run the same function also on Windows? All of these wishes could be fulfilled.

Implementation

Since the function of the app exceeded the resources of a browser („web-apps”), a „real” application had to be programed which runs on all platforms. Using a modern framework, we could make sure that the same code can be used for all operating systems. So the effort for creation and maintenance could be decreased and still each user can use the own beloved smartphone.

Because for a part of the function C#/ .NET code for Windows already existed, we have reused this code. This happened without having to change the code.

Since only certified code can be executed on all modern operating systems, certificates for the different platforms had to be generated and managed. WE also handled this for the customer.