IoT App Development Company

An IoT or connected device app is typically an iOS or Android app that connects to a physical product to either control it, or present data from it. For example, smart home devices, or medical device apps.

The app covers the interface people use, the connection to the hardware as well as connections to any cloud services to exchange further data.

We handle everything from discovery, through design, development and of course hardware integration. We will then work with you to monitor performance and enhance the product over time.

Absolutely, and it’s often the quickest route.

We often work hand in hand with your hardware suppliers to guide the firmware for the integration throughout to ensure a great users experience.

We’ve helped everyone from Caterpillar, to Cambridge Audio and Open Air Med in this way, often building the apps whilst the hardware is still just a circuit board!

The best way to connect depends hugely on the use case, the range required, battery life, the amount of data and if you are sending that data direct to the phone, or via the cloud.

Technologies like Bluetooth/BLE send data directly to and from a phone and are great for control home devices or in products like headphones, whereas technology like LoRaWAN, NB-IoT and Sigfox work best for low power devices sending data to the cloud, like sensors in industrial settings.

We will work with your team directly from the start to offer guidance and advice around the best route for your use case

This is one of the nuances for physical products. We build over the air firmware updates into our apps that allow the app to download new versions of the firmware for the device and then upload it direct.

Of course with the device being anywhere in the world extra care and attention has to be taken to ensure this is a highly robust and secure process.

Our focus is on the software and building the best experience for the user to interact with, however we have a network of partners who can manage everything from hardware prototypes through to sourcing the finished products.

Connected device and IoT apps can be more expensive than a standard mobile app due to the added complexity associated with connectivity and physical world products.

Key drivers include the way the devices interact, if there is a need for any certification (as a medical device for instance) and of course the features required.

As always we recommend building a prototype or an MVP version first to verify the hardware connection and test with real users.

Absolutely! For Cambridge Audio we build the app to control their new range of wireless headphones, allowing users to do everything from setting up their devices to configuring their EQ.

We helped Smarter by building their connected device app to power the award winning iKettle, Smarter Coffee Machine and Fridgecam

We have spent nearly two decades building platforms that require high capacity and resilience levels.

From the offset our team device technical strategies to ensure the platform has ample capacity and is designed facilitate the experience and business decisions the data needs to provide.

Working with cloud partners such as AWS IoT core and Microsoft Azure IoT Hub we are able to provide huge capacity for any size of platform.