Metronix Servo Drives
Project Goals
More than 70,000 tested servo controllers leave the Metronix Braunschweig factory every year. The wide range of different products is based on a shared platform and can be quickly adapted to customer-specific requirements. This customization offers the user many new degrees of freedom. The goal was to develop a multi-platform application for smartphones and tablets that allows remote connection to Metronix servo controllers to view and control their status, operating values, operating modes, and protocols.
Challenges
- Wireless real-time monitoring of servo controllers in a demanding industrial production environment
- Support of a wide range of products
- Intuitive operation on many different mobile devices
- Parallel development processes of application and firmware
Solution
SABO Mobile IT has developed a multi-platform application called Servo Drives which enables wireless connection to industrial servo controllers, which control servo motors.
The communication layer is BLE GATT (Bluetooth Low Energy) with a high data throughput, which enables fast data updates and a highly stable asynchronous connection to several servo controllers simultaneously, even under demanding conditions.
The application's intuitive user interface provides a clear display of the status, operating values, and mode of the controllers on a variety of different mobile iOS and Android devices.
SABO Mobile IT is able to quickly implement customized software development and maintain a high level of quality thanks to powerful technologies, an efficient project team, and modern project management techniques:
- Bluetooth ™ LE, GATT, Microsoft® Xamarin, Xamarin Forms, .NET Framework, SQLite
- Intuitive and functional UI/UX solutions from our partner company CaderaDesign
- PractiTest ™ as a test platform to ensure and maintain high product quality.
Results
Working closely with Metronix developers, we were able to create a solution that gives Metronix a significant competitive advantage and covers exactly those functions that end customers demand the most.
- Display of the values of the connected servo motors, e.g. temperature, speed, motor current, position, torque, DC voltage, power, etc.
- Monitoring of warning and error conditions
- "Hello" function to quickly identify the controller you are looking for among other devices
- Lightning-fast response and data transfer via BLE
- Highly professional design for maximum user comfort
- Multiple language support
- Dark Mode for iOS
