The power industry is undergoing a digital transformation driven by the rise of renewables, distributed generation, and smart grids. These advancements are challenging traditional business models and regulatory frameworks, demanding innovative solutions. The rapid growth of data collection and exchange presents both digital threats and valuable opportunities. Customer engagement is shifting online, while the Internet of Things opens new product and management possibilities. Digital disruptors from outside the industry are driving change, while governments and regulatory bodies promote intelligent metering systems and greener generation and consumption standards.
To navigate these challenges, the future of the power industry lies in fully embracing digitalization. This necessitates a comprehensive transformation of utilities, starting with immediate steps to enhance efficiency and expand customer reach. As this transformation gains momentum, it will unlock a wider range of digital opportunities across the entire sector.
One of the top European suppliers of gas and electricity was looking for a trustworthy partner to assist in enhancing their development procedures for commercial and residential structures. Agiliway custom software development company helped the client develop an innovative React-based solution and taking into account the organization’s long-term objectives.
Background of the Project
After an ineffective collaboration with an outsourced vendor, the client approached the Agiliway team to become a member of their in-house team. The Agiliway team assisted the client in streamlining its operations by conducting a thorough analysis of the architecture and devising a strategy for the ongoing development of the iOS and Android mobile applications.
The main focus of the responsibilities included:
- Deploying a CI/CD approach for a mobile application.
- Examining the features that are already available, what may be changed, and how to enhance the product’s value.
- Enhancing the speed and efficiency of their website.
- Evaluating the Next.js implementation that generates a static server without single-page application capabilities, resulting in frequent page refreshes.
Regarding the business requirements, Agiliway programmers had to consider that the functionality should be intuitive, easy to understand, and low maintenance (to minimize the client’s expenses on further assistance).
Implemented Solutions
The client had shown interest in hiring primarily Senior and Lead Engineers. Consequently, upon reaching out to the Agiliway team, they were aware that they needed not only advanced specialists but also exceptional team players capable of conducting research, building a proof of concept, and engaging in discussions with the rest of the team while presenting established ideas, etc.
Aligned with the client’s expectations, the team undertook the following tasks:
- Investigated CI/CD for iOS application building through in-depth market analysis, assessing the performance of multiple tools with regard to speed, pricing, pros, and cons.
- Researched and analyzed the existing features of web applications.
- Assisted in creating a single-page application, thereby ensuring proper operation of static server rendering.
- Improved the front-end architecture using a Lerna-based monorepo, enabling the reuse of packages. This solution facilitated quicker and more efficient building of additional widgets.
- The adoption of monorepo packages resulted in cleaner and better-structured code, and the independence of the packages allowed their simultaneous use, thereby speeding up the development process.
- Simplified and reduced testing time by making architectural changes.
- Initiated the development of a React Native-based mobile application, where some packages (logic, constants, API requests, etc.) were reused from the web app, significantly reducing development time.
- Set up AWS, leveraging its multiple benefits crucial for the client’s platform operations. Notably, services such as CodePipeline and CodeBuild were utilized for integration and continuous development.
Additionally, Agiliway experts took full responsibility for setting up CI/CD, conducting Device Farm testing, distribution for testers, distribution to AppStore and Google Play Market, and managing the mobile development process, among other tasks.
The technological stack employed for this project included serverless Node + Express for the backend and a monorepo with React for the web and React Native for the mobile app in the front-end.
Value Delivered
Undertaking the project for the energy industry is of utmost importance and presents significant difficulties due to the many factors that must be considered. The primary and essential criterion was to provide optimal user experience in terms of both home care services and energy usage. Our client’s ultimate objective is to implement sustainable systems and services that effectively mitigate climate change by reducing energy consumption.
The Agiliway engineers collaborated with the client’s internal team to enhance performance by using their considerable expertise in developing online and mobile apps using cutting-edge technologies. Additionally, they contributed their skills to enhance the client’s commercial value. This was accomplished by using concepts that automate various processes, hence reducing costs associated with product creation and ongoing maintenance.
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