Technologies

 

Kunde:	Cenprom AG
Applikation:	Agontronic
Technologie:	.Net Core 2.1, MS SQL Server, AZURE Cloud Services: Azure web jobs, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Blob Storage, Azure SendGrid, ReactNative, Victory chart

Cenprom AG, based in the canton of Zug, focuses on the development of iOS and Android applications. It generates ideas and visions for new apps, which are implemented after thorough examination and conception.

For the implementation of the project "Agontronic" the company soXes GmbH was commissioned, which in close cooperation with the client brought the product to marketability.

Agontronic targets a younger audience, which is dedicated to playing online multiplayer games. Via the app, players can compare each other. Their achieved successes are converted into "scores", which are used in app own competitions. Besides the fame that is important in the gamer scene, material prizes can also be won.

With an increasing number of users, game manufacturers will be convinced to create exclusive game content for Agontronic users. These can be played in specially created competitions. Agontronic is designed in such a way that third party companies can also book and run competitions in order to increase their awareness in the scene.

As with many successful products, the underlying idea of Agontronic is very simple: The player should be able to use the points earned at the finish line to participate in competitions while pursuing his favorite activity - playing online games - without any additional effort. All that is required is the download of the app and registration, including the player's email address and country of residence. If the game is supported by Agontronic, he can link his user data (player name) with the app and his successes and failures achieved in the game will be transferred to the app. The received data in turn will be processed and converted into comparable "scores", which will be used for the ranking in the competition. Furthermore, the player can compare himself with friends who also use Agontronic.

However, the implementation of the requirements proved to be a greater challenge. The support of 4 different platforms - meaning different providers through which the players play the online games - as well as games from different manufacturers meant that a separate connection had to be implemented for each system.

The authentication of the players is done via the login masks of the respective platform, which returns the required user data to Agontronic if successful. This way, no login data (username/password) is stored in the app, which reduces the application's vulnerability to a minimum. Furthermore, the app only accesses game data that is publicly available.

The games are connected via proprietary APIs - Application Pogramming Interface, i.e. an interface provided by the manufacturer to query predefined data - which differ greatly from manufacturer to manufacturer. The query and processing of the statistics obtained in this way must therefore be implemented individually for each game, but must ultimately be reconciled.

The fact that the game manufacturers greatly limit the daily queries of the statistics in order to protect their own systems from excessive load proved to be difficult. Agontronic is dependent on data in real time to a large extent, so that for example only one query per day/player to save "requests" is not sufficient for the operation of the app. A sophisticated system to reduce unnecessary queries - e.g. when players are not active and therefore no changes in the statistics are expected - and the distribution of statistic requests to different source systems makes it possible to simultaneously supply the application with statistical data in real time and on the other hand to take into account the limitation of the queries.

For the administration of users and contests an administration tool was implemented, which allows the customer to create contests. The planning of the competitions can be individually adapted to the type and needs of third party companies that book competitions with Cenprom for the Agontronic app. Period of time, prices, but also countries or regions in which the contest should be held can be freely chosen. Based on the country of residence of the Agontronic users, contests can also be created for marketing purposes. In return, the provider receives the contact data (e-mail addresses) of the participating players, who give their consent by participating in the contest.

In the beginning there was the idea of the customer to revolve the online games market. The app users were to be given the opportunity to win prizes with their hobby in a simple way without additional expenditure.

The company soXes took over the ideas and visions of the customer and designed an application according to his ideas, defined the software architecture and took over the communication to the project-relevant third party providers (Microsoft for xBox connection, Sony for Playstation connection as well as the manufacturers of the supported games).

Due to the agile approach, corrections and extensions to the concept and implementation could be made together during the course of the project in order to meet the dynamic environment of online games.

With "Agonotronic" the customer receives an application based on modern and value-preserving software architecture. Due to the modular implementation of the connected games and surrounding systems, further games can be introduced if required without changing the existing content. Using an administration tool, the customer can create and run competitions himself, has an overview of the registered users and can also block them - in case of disregard of the terms and conditions.

 

Kunde:	TUS - Telekommunikation und Sicherheit
Applikation:	TUS AIN
Technologie:	Graylog Cluster, Microservices, Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodik, Data Loss Prevention, Split Brain Prevention

In the sixties of the last century, the then PTT was looking for strong partners to operate and finance an alarm transmission service in Switzerland. Securiton AG and Cerberus AG (now Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies) took up the challenge. In 1968 they founded the interest group TUS Telekommunikation und Sicherheit. The pioneering spirit was rewarded: Thanks to constant technical innovations and considerable investments, TUS today presents itself as a modern and efficient multi-technology provider with brilliant future prospects.

TUS AIN (Automatic Intelligent Notification) was developed in order to bring the notification of system faults and alarms, which until then had mainly been personalised, to more modern technologies such as SMS, push, email, pager and automated voice call. In this way, a notification can be automatically sent by TUS AIN to the responsible alarm recipients and to the desired medium. If required, it can also be displayed and edited via a mobile app. A high-performance IP-based network is used to transmit the messages.

TUS AIN is supplied by the TUS alarmDispatcher system with information on the status of the subscriber terminals and their sensors and is mainly used as a notification centre that can be configured in great detail.

The following technologies and solutions are used specifically: Graylog Cluster, Microservices - including Log Service, Notification Service, System Monitoring (PRTG and others), Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodology, Data Loss Prevention, Split Brain Prevention.

 

Kunde:	Civil engineering office of the canton of Zug Department of Road Maintenance
Applikation:	smartBSAzg
Technologie:	Python, Django, NGinx, MySQL, Angular, ag-grid, XML, React Native

The Electrical Engineering Department of the Canton of Zug Civil Engineering Office is responsible for the planning, construction, operation and maintenance of the operating and safety equipment (BSA) of the cantonal roads.

The electrotechnical operating and safety equipment (BSA) of the cantonal roads in the canton of Zug shall become smart.

All BSAs of the Canton of Zug, which are located on the cantonal roads or in technical premises, must be clearly identifiable by means of a plant identification system (ACS).

Already today, all BSA elements of the canton of Zug are clearly marked. However, the existing coding was no longer sufficient. In smartBSAzg, the BSA will receive an extended AKS coding.
The new AKS code is formed from 14 segments according to AKS-ZG+, which also allows the dynamic coding of data points.

soXes has received the order to develop a web-based BSA tool. In the smart BSA tool, all BSAs are to be inventoried. smartBSAzg contains the static master data, which can be dynamically synchronized with connected peripheral systems (UeKS and UeLS) via XML interface.

New and changed BSA data should be automatically synchronized with surrounding systems. An XML-based interface is to be built, which allows daily data synchronization with surrounding systems.

Within the scope of this project, soXes has also developed a mobile app that allows to read all captured BSA data by scanning the data matrix on the on-site BSA signs.