Cloud Control Access: From Hack to Reality
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Neurer, an IT&C company based in Bucharest, Romania, aims to address challenges in deploying IoT cloud access control platforms through innovative technology solutions. Their approach emphasizes a decentralized system for user provisioning, integration with existing systems, and diverse authentication methods while utilizing a robust technology stack including Java, Docker, and Kafka. Future plans include expanding partnerships, integrating additional systems, and launching mobile applications for enhanced user experience.
Cloud Control Access: From Hack to Reality
- 1. Cloud Access Control Platform Challenges in deploying an IoT Cloud Platform 20th of November 2019, London Neurer Business Solutions - Laura Chirca, Business Development Manager
- 2. Agenda Who we are Innovation approach Product Architecture Struggles Future plans Insights
- 3. Who we are Laura Chirca: Software and business consultant. Worked for Oracle, PwC, FISERV 2014 - Co-Founder and Business Development Manager of NEURER The company: Small-size, IT&C, based in Bucharest, ROMANIA. Our Products: Infrastructure as a Service, VPS, VDS, Disaster Recovery, Email Delivery Platforms (corporate servers, transactional, newsletter)
- 4. “Technology is opening the doors to endless possibilities” State the problem you are solving in one or two sentences. Make sure to explain why it is a real problem.
- 5. … but what is the technology behind the actual opening of the doors? State the problem you are solving in one or two sentences. Make sure to explain why it is a real problem.
- 6. What is Innovation? Justify your effort to try to solve the problem. Highlight the pain points of the current solution or how customers deal with not having a solution to the problem. - Not always a new idea - Not always disruptive - Sometimes just a new approach on something that already exists
- 7. What you see Justify your effort to try to solve the problem. Highlight the pain points of the current solution or how customers deal with not having a solution to the problem. What lies beneath
- 8. - Decentralised system - Impossible to scale - Difficult to provision users across multiple sites - Difficult to integrate with other systems - No modern authentication technologies (two factor, smartphone app with NFC…) Old versus Modern approach
- 9. Today’s challenges - Centralised system and information from anywhere across the world - Unlimited doors, buildings, locations - Real time provisioning of users across buildings and regions - Integrated with any ERP or core system (HRMs, Payroll) - Multiple authentication methods available
- 10. Our approach
- 11. Building Server - Architecture
- 12. Building Server - Message Data Flows
- 13. Cloud Platform - Architecture
- 14. Cloud Platform - Data Flows
- 15. Building Server: - Mosquito - Docker - Java App - Mongo DB Technology Stack Door Controller: - Arduino - Raspberry Cloud Logic: - OTA System Mender - Log System Logz.io - Kafka - PosgresSQL - TimescaleDB Cloud CCA Platform: - ?? Our own cloud: - Vcenter Cloud Access Control Technology Stack
- 16. Building Server: - Mosquito (MQTT) - Docker - Java App (Spring framework) - MongoDB - Raspberry Pi Cloud Access Control Technology Stack Door Controller: - Arduino - C Cloud Platform: - Kafka - PostgreSQL - TimescaleDB - Java (Spring framework) - Swagger - Mender Our own cloud: - VmWare - VyOS - Mikrotik - Kubernetes
- 17. Technology Stack Java, a top programming language with a long history behind, stability and widespread are it’s main advantages and it’s used as backend and for data processing projects Spring framework, most used java general purpose framework. Or Devs love it. Swagger a visual tool that allows easy integration for API’s, it facilitates communication between teams, implements OpenAPI standard ReactJs the most popular javascript library for implementing one page applications, has a large community, lots of support and it promotes a decoupling from the DOM model Kafka a scalable widely used message broker, acts as the glue between different parts of the systems, enable async processing of information PostgreSQL a relational SQL compliant database that support scaling .It has been around since 1996, and it’s arguably in front of MySQL as adoption rate TimescaleDB a time series database, it’s scalable and fully support SQL sytax and features, it’s “backend” it’s made of PostgreSQL servers so it sits in top of a super tested and used technology Docker probably the most popular container system used today, enables system decoupling from phisical resources
- 18. Technology Stack Kubernetes a platform for managing containerized services, it has a growing traction in the industry and simplifies deployments and working on multiple environments with little configuration Mosquitto an open source MQTT broker, it is lightweight and simple to configure, suitable for IOT devices like ours MongoDB a document based database, although it’s a very powerful tool, our usage it’s limited to store data for the local building server. Our reasons: it’s easy to model the data, use it’s API and it has a lot of features Mender.io it’s a OTA (over the air) updates system for operating systems. It has a smart fool proof method of deploying the image using a dual boot. Really necessary if you have multiple devices (servers) running in remote locations. We are using it for our Raspberry pi fleet Arduino and Raspberry PI, two of the most used development boards in the hobby community, although we may upgrade them in the future releases they have helped us kickstarting the project. The power of the community was awesome and we had delivered a working demo of the product in a short time
- 19. Commercial model SaaS monthly subscription On existing customers we only replace the door controllers. Keep the card readers and the the existing door lockers. Customer Advantages: - No (or minimal) investment in hardware - No need to manage the system - Opex instead of Capex - Pay per use model - add buildings and users on the go - Full automation with existing HRM and Payroll systems
- 20. Wireframes - UX matters in B2B as well
- 21. Struggles - Choosing the right technology stack - Low cost Performant Hardware prototypes - Devs and Devops - synergies that can develop into dissensions - Choose the minimal set of features for our first MVP (minimum viable product) - Running it in our own “cloud” infrastructure - Keeping the architecture clean, microservice-divided and easy to migrate to AWS/Google/Azure
- 22. Inside our Lab
- 23. Inside our Lab
- 24. Where we are Jan 2019 July 2019 Project Start MVP Nov 2019 Beta version First customer Feb 2020
- 25. Future Plans - The first customer: a chain of dental clinics - Integrate as many HRMs and Payroll systems as possible - Integrate Video and do some AI on the video recording like analysing who’s entering or getting out of the doors - Launch the android and ios mobile apps - Looking for partners across different markets