IoT Software Development

No — and that's deliberate. Firmware, protocols and certification belong with your hardware engineers or a specialist. We build everything above that: the app, the dashboard, the portal and the cloud backend. If you're looking for one supplier to do both, we're not it.

The market range for connected products is wide — roughly $30,000 for a companion app over an existing backend, into the hundreds of thousands for a platform managing a large fleet. The variables are how many device types, how much data and how many people need to administer it. We scope after discovery and give a fixed number.

That's the normal setup. We agree the interface between us early — what the device sends, what it accepts, how it authenticates — and then both sides can move without waiting on each other. Most delays in these projects come from that contract being decided late.

Common, and workable. We build against a simulated device that speaks the same protocol, then swap in real units as they arrive. What we need early isn't the hardware — it's an agreed data format that won't change twice.

Offline is a normal state, not an error. Commands queue until the device comes back, the app shows the last known state with a timestamp rather than pretending, and data that arrives late gets placed correctly in history instead of overwriting it.

You do, in your own account — and it's worth modelling before you build. Devices send data continuously, so storage and ingestion grow with the fleet whether or not revenue does. Deciding what to keep at full resolution and what to summarise is a business decision we raise early.

Depends who the user is. Consumer devices need an app — setup and control happen on a phone. Industrial and commercial fleets need a dashboard, because nobody manages two hundred units from a handset. Products sold to both end up needing both, usually in that order.

Four things decide whether it feels finished: pairing that works on the first try, a clear picture of what the device is doing right now, control that still behaves when the Bluetooth connection drops, and app updates that don't strand older units. For Misty the Cloud, a smart nursery light, that meant a React Native app that pairs over Bluetooth and controls all three device modes from a parent's phone.