Blue Star - An Innovative IT Outsourcing Company

Country

United States

industry

Retail Fisheries

Technology

GPS Tracking | IOT | MERN | IOS | Android

The Client

One of the world’s leading premium seafood marketers that operates through a network of global production facilities and caters to a universal clientele. The company is a global leader in verifiable traceability and sustainability within the seafood based economy.

The Challenge

Claritus was entrusted with the task of designing a GPS based mobile tracking solution based on the ‘Trap to Plate’ concept for the client that would help them ensure transparency and sustainability and thereby win the confidence of their global customer base.

The Solution

Developed a comprehensive & fool-proof GPS based tracking solution for mobile platforms
Solution built around the 'Trap to Plate' concept enabling end users to track every portion of crab meat sold globally to its exact point of catch in the sea in the APAC region
QR based Mobile solution for traceability
Location of the catch in the APAC region is important from the end users' perspective due to its far superior quality
Solution optimized for web and mobile (iOS and Android) platforms
Hosted on AWS cloud servers
Developed front-end application using PHP-Yii framework.
User REST controller
• To integrate with tracking device and retrieve location to store in location database.
• To integrate mobile app with Web application
Service layer was developed to implement business rules and validation
RDS (MySQL) was used as primary database.
MS SQL server was used to store location database.
Google MAP APls were used to show location and route over map.
SNS was used to send Push Notification to Android and iPhone Apps.
Scheduled jobs were created to verify the data on a pre-defined time interval and based upon certain business logic.
Waterfall methodology was used for application development.
Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration to ensure the build is deployed only when it passes all tests.
Selenium and Appium was used for automation testing of web and mobile application respectively.