A Smart Building Assistant Solution

About the company

Andersen was approached by Leicom AG – a company that operates in the automation and control technology industry, offering infrastructure system solutions and digital services. The company is a smart building provider for digital infrastructures, with offices in five locations in Switzerland and Germany.

Project overview

The Eliona Smart Building Assistant enables users to interact with digital infrastructures and optimizes building and business processes. In this fashion, it increases the efficiency of facilities, employees, and processes via skilled Data Analysis and implementation of complex use cases.

Key functionality

Andersen has provided the customer with a tool capable of generating customized data visualizations and offering the best possible UX. Among other things, it offers the following functionality:

• Data display via charts and tables together with the tracking of device locations on maps, in 3D models, and in Augmented Reality;
• Advanced monitoring and data logging functionalities for a wide range of devices and resources;
• A possibility to create thoroughly customized dashboards that take into account users' personal preferences and needs and are well-adapted to mobile devices;
• An alarm system with notifications automatically sent to all involved parties under certain conditions specified by the user;
• Integrating with analytics tools to track user interactions and app performance;
• Implementing techniques like lazy loading, code splitting, caching, and Server-Side Rendering for performance optimization.

Project results

• Andersen's QA team has built a testing framework for the project from scratch and introduced a test strategy, Asana flows, and a new GitFlow. Among other improvements implemented, the number of ad hoc bugs has decreased by 10%;
• One-click deployment performed by an allocated DevOps engineer allows the customer’s end-clients (hospitals, industrial facilities, etc.) to deploy and start using the app much faster and easier. As a result, their client base is going to grow significantly.
• The percentage of tests passed has risen from 60% to 90%;

Customer review