01/2024 - ongoing
Project Overview
During the development and testing of a asset tracking solution via BLE for a client, we identified the need for an easy to use software to track BLE advertisements. The current market setup features some software solutions for this usecase, however they tend to have some issues like:
- Complex UI slows down the interpretation process
- Slow startup and configuration is time consuming
- Platform specific BLE stacks generate different results for different OS
- Manufacture Specific Data can't be parsed as custom data
Testing different solutions on the market first lead to some frustration among our developers and later to the decision to design a own product.
Solution Provided
The rosslight software team first implemented an easy to use user interface in Figma and then started development of a .NET software using Avalonia as UI Framework. The integration of different BLE hardware as sensors was made possible thanks to the use of the Darp.BLE platform which allowed running tests on native Windows as well as Nordic BLE dongles.
Parsing of Manufacture Specific Data is achieved by loading client specific plugins.