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BLE Connect

Real-Time Control, Reliable Connectivity

Overview

Designed for seamless asset and building management, the BLE Connect Dashboard provides real-time insights, automated testing, and detailed reporting.

Users can monitor network performance, track devices, and oversee operations with a self-healing, interference-resistant mesh network. Secure AES-128 encryption, adaptive frequency agility, and dynamic routing ensure reliability and scalability for large-scale deployments.

Automatically test emergency lighting
Configure luminaire information remotely
Deployed in 30+ sites across the UK
Generate status reports on-demand
Industry Emergency lighting
Project date 2023 - ongoing
Services UI/UX design, Web-app development

"Working with Everbit on BLE Connect was a positive experience. With Wirepas being a new protocol in the UK and our system concept pushing industry boundaries, the project required them to expand their knowledge and use a problem-solving approach. They adapted well to the challenges and delivered a functional solution. Communication was clear throughout, and their technical input was very helpful. Overall, a solid team to work with on IoT development."

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Euan Sellars Design Team Lead
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Challenge

Maintaining emergency lighting across multiple facilities is complex and labour-intensive, requiring significant manual effort for testing, meticulous record-keeping for compliance, and scalable solutions to manage growing operational demands. Ensuring reliability amid device failures adds further challenges.

Emergency lighting can often go untested when records are not kept consistently.

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Solution

BLE Connect simplifies emergency lighting maintenance by automating routine tests and enabling remote configuration of luminaires. Its self-healing wireless mesh network adapts dynamically to changes, ensuring continuous reliability. With on-demand status reporting, the system streamlines compliance and eliminates the need for manual inspections.

Everbit designed a dashboard to manage luminaires across buildings allowing for a live updating test view, viewing a luminaire’s test history and creating reports on demand. Organisation admins are also notified when their emergency lighting will testing automatically.

How we built it

The BLE Connect system is built with a Svelte/SvelteKit frontend, delivering a fast, reactive user experience for managing assets, buildings, and real-time testing. The frontend communicates with a Symfony-based API, which handles business logic, integrates with a MySQL database, and leverages API Platform to provide a scalable and extendable RESTful API.

To ensure efficient messaging and real-time updates, Symfony Messenger is integrated with MQTT and RabbitMQ, facilitating asynchronous communication between system components. Additionally, a Python daemon is responsible for handling networked nodes. This daemon, built with Quart, processes webhooks, manages MQTT messages for network control and expansion, and provides a CLI for node management.

The API is designed to support third-party integrations, allowing external applications to connect and interact with the system. This enables monitoring solutions, third-party nodes, and other integrations to be seamlessly incorporated, extending the platform’s capabilities while maintaining flexibility and scalability.

Key technologies

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Next steps

  • You will receive a confirmation email
  • We will be in touch within 3 business days to book a call
  • After the call we will create a project estimate and a project plan for you

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