Consumer IoT Solution for Pool Equipments Controlling & Automation

Germany’s leading swimming pool equipment manufacturing company partnered with Intuz for developing a custom IoT Solution to monitor, control and manage devices giving the end users a best in class user experience for their products.

The project involved managing IoT-based pump controllers with multiple controllable ports. The biggest challenge was selecting a cost-effective chip that could fully support OTA updates. After finalizing the chip, we provided consulting for PCB board design and completed the firmware development to enable reliable device control and onboarding.

Intuz Development & Consulting

ESP32 Wifi chip selection

Firmware development

Azure IOT Hub platform consulting

Device Onboarding & management

OTA update

Audit trail

GDPR compliance

Web & Mobile application

MQTT Broker

Intuz DevOps experts compared self-managed and cloud messaging queues. Based on reliability, cost, security, maintenance, and GDPR compliance, we chose Azure IoT services. To control cloud costs and support real-time data sharing for multiple users, we designed a single-channel architecture optimized for efficient resource usage and future scalability.

MQTT Cost Optimization (Azure)

Azure IoT Hub works on an event-driven model, where each device message creates an event. To avoid extra events from direct user communication, we used WebSockets with a single IoT Hub channel. By using a triggering mechanism, we synchronized requests efficiently and reduced overall requests, responses, and event counts.

Once the device is onboarded, the user has the option to control the device and its ports, and share the access with their family members or technicians.