APPS + PHYSICAL PRODUCTS
Connected-Device App Development
Native mobile applications that pair with, configure, control and monitor physical products over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and internet services – designed with the hardware, protocol and backend as one complete user experience.
The difficult part is usually the boundary between app and device
A connected product can work perfectly in a laboratory demonstration and still frustrate users once range, permissions, multiple nearby devices, phone lifecycle behaviour and interrupted onboarding enter the picture. Those conditions are part of the product, not exceptions to it.
We design the communication model and the user journey together so pairing, provisioning, control, telemetry and recovery have explicit behaviour. Where we are also involved in the electronics prototype, we can test those paths against the real device while the hardware and protocol are still flexible enough to change.
- Bluetooth device discovery and identification
- Pairing, onboarding and permission flows
- Wi-Fi provisioning and account linking
- Control commands, state and telemetry
- Firmware or device-version awareness
- Reconnect, reset and recovery behaviour
- Backend services for accounts, data and diagnostics
One product experience across mobile, hardware and backend
Users do not distinguish between an app bug, a Bluetooth timing issue, a stale backend state or a device that has restarted. They experience one product that worked or did not. Treating the system as a whole makes it easier to design clear behaviour and useful diagnostics.
We can provide the native app as a focused workstream or combine it with electronics prototyping, wireless integration and API/backend development where the wider product benefits from one technical view.
Building a product that connects to a phone?
Tell us how the device, app and backend are expected to interact. We can help identify the parts worth prototyping before the production architecture is fixed.