Client Overview
A Connected Home and Security brand of a fortune 500 company with a product range like smoke detectors/ alarms, extinguishers, cookware, home fragrance, food storage, etc. making the world a better and safer place
Business Challenge
- Required vendor with expertise on Z-Wave to identify and migrate to new Z-Wave module in safety devices (Smoke & CO) as existing module came to an End-of-Life (EOL)
- Lack of Z-Wave capabilities to develop new firmware for the Z-Wave section along with leveraging existing hardware and firmware for the Smoke and CO detection section
- Solution for mass production test jig at their manufacturing facility
VOLANSYS Contribution
Firmware design and development
- Developed Z-Wave module firmware application
- Interfacing Silabs Z-Wave module with STM as co-processor platform
- Power optimization and battery-life management to achieve a 1-year battery life
- Firmware bring-up on the STMicroelectronics hardware prototypes
- Z-Wave application porting on hardware
Complete solution testing
- Developed the test jigs for radio module and EOL testing at client’s factory
- Flashing and Serialization scripts for production
- Unit and integration test plan, test cases
- Device commissioning, Smoke detection, CO detection, Silent/ Test alarm, Battery test, LED test, RF Range test
- Functional, integration and regression testing with test reports
Certifications and integrations - Z-Wave Plus self-certification and pre-compliance with accredited test-house
- Final Z-Wave Plus certification with required documentation
- Integrated & certified safety device to work with Ring and Samsung Smart Things (hubs)
Solution Architecture
Benefits Delivered
- Being single stop shop providing a full turnkey solution, helped the customer with ease of communication and shorten product launch timelines
- Improved production quality and faster EOL testing with testjigs developed
- End-to-end ownership from selection to development of Z-Wave module that reduced the client’s development efforts and time
- Extended market reach through device integration with leading smart home automation platforms (hubs)