Enhancing Digital Access -

with Secure, Scalable and Smarter Technologies

Alpha ICT has proven experience in the design and development of embedded electronics & modules for Digital Access Products applicable across multiple areas – 

Residential

Hospitality

Goods-in Transit

These embedded controllers & allied solutions developed under the “Outsource Product Development” model utilizing Alpha ICT’s in-depth “Concept-to-field” expertise, are running successfully on the field and are being launched to maintain the competitive leadership across the target markets for a well-established brand having a presence in India and Middle East.

Alpha ICT’s Unique Offerings & Advantages

Offerings and Advantages

Highly appreciated & recognized Concept-to-Field experience and well-established delivery model.

Product Validation

Dedicated Product Validation of diverse products, fully supported by in-house labs and third-party NABL-accredited labs to expedite time to market.

Value Engineering

Leverage our innovative Value Engineering offering to address cost reduction requirements along with the technology upgradation needs and hardware obsolescence.

Proven capability and experience in building Embedded Controller & Drive Platforms addressing family of products and capacity ranges.

Offerings and Advantages
Connected Devices

Demonstrated expertise in building Connected Device strategy and implementing predictive analytics.

Manufacturing Support

Well-established Manufacturing Support eco-system – right from prototyping to supply.

Multiple skills under one roof

Multiple skills and capabilities under one roof– Mechanical, Embedded Electronics- Hardware & Firmware, Software Applications- Desktop, Cloud, Web and Mobility.

Emerging tools and technologies

Dedicated teams well experienced in Current & Emerging Tools & Technologies for delivering firmware, software & mobile applications.

Enhance Digital Access Solutions with
Alpha ICT’s Expertise

Alpha ICT’s custom solutions help streamline Digital Access Systems – better security, newer technologies & improved user experience.

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Embedded Controller Platform

Embedded Controller Platform

Proven capability & experience in building embedded controller platforms addressing family of products and variants including-

  • Enabling Design Ownership
  • Component Standardization
  • Cost Optimization
  • Better Serviceability
  • Flexibility & Scalability
  • Incorporating value-added features as well as new & emerging technologies
Embedded Controller Platform

Authentication & Access Control

Fingerprint

Fingerprint
  • Identification of suitable vendor(s) based on customer requirements (Target costs, No of fingerprints, 180-degree sensing, current optimization strategies and consumption, certifications, longevity and source of origin)
  • Capacitive buttons for human touch interface
  • Capacitive buttons for human touch interface
  • Proven experience in FAR & FRR verification, vendor interaction for issues resolution, sensing optimization.
  • Demonstrated capability in FP Module integration covering- PCB design, Prototype development, firmware development, mobile test app & SDK development, Module level testing, functional testing, life testing & Release.
Fingerprint

Capsense

  • Identification of suitable cap-sensing technique based upon product architecture and mechanical design ideas to arrive at cost effective, user friendly, intuitive, robust and easy to manufacture design.
  • Proven experience in working with multiple capsense semiconductor chip manufacturers and product ideas for keys sensing and illumination techniques considering available PCB real estate constraints, co-existence of other electronic components/ modules/ antennas/ technologies.
  • Integration with different types of product ideas including integration with metallic, different plastics, and acrylic materials for user interaction by designing non-standard PCB sizes and dimensions.

RFID, Key Fob

rfid
  • Product specific RFID and Keyfob Technology identification based upon usage characteristics, expected security level, product cost and compliance requirements.
  • Proven skillsets in vendor identification, concept proving and cost calculations to speed up the development and market introduction.
  • Proven experience in RFID antenna design for PCB trace antenna working with metallic, plastic and acrylic enclosures to optimize sensing and authentication performance along with low power consumption strategies.
  • Self-sufficient team with a proven track record to identify, design, integrate, optimize and test for compliance of RFID technology in the product.
rfid
NFC

NFC

NFC
  • NFC based authentication through appropriate RFID semiconductor chips fulfilling industry needs of low power consumption, low cost, ease of access with the help of the development of Android mobile applications for NFC communication protocol, security mechanisms to design and develop byte level protocol to exchange data between Android mobile and embedded application.
  • Functional testing and optimizing Android mobile application to work with different Smartphone manufacturers and various Android OS for optimal performance.

Face Recognition

Face recognization
  • Sensor identification – low power, physical dimensions suiting product enclosure needs, longevity, renowned brand supporting worldwide distribution, Sensor interface with a host microcontroller, libraries (low-level code) to integrate with the application.
  • Sensor integration with the application, functional testing, low power mode integration and compliance testing.
  • Sensor manufacturer and EMS vendor interface for production quantity supply and quotation.
Face recognization

Connected Devices

Wi-Fi

wifi
  • Suitable SOC/Module identification fulfilling technical requirements of communication with external world.
  • Comparison of different SOCs/Modules to choose best-fit, suitable low power application having connection and data security features.
  • Development of Web APIs for communication with Cloud & Mobile application enabling secure communication and data exchange.
  • Hardware integration for functional testing and compliance testing.
wifi

BLE

  • Suitable SOC/Module identification fulfilling technical requirements of communication with the external world.
  • Comparison of different SOCs/Modules to choose best-fit, suitable for low power applications having connection and data security features.
  • Development of Web APIs for communication with Cloud & Mobile applications enabling secure communication and data exchange.
  • Development of beacon as well as characteristics/services based BLE applications for secure data exchange.
  • Hardware integration for functional testing and compliance testing along with power optimization options for deciding number of advertising channels, advertising time and advertising frequency.

Wired Communication

  • Identification of suitable wired communication technology depending on various parameters like – distance & speed of communication, number of devices on the communication bus, environmental conditions etc.
  • Finalization of a technology to be used depending upon these parameters and choosing the appropriate communication module/chip for the same.
  • Development of low-level drivers and application code for selected microcontroller/microprocessor platforms along with OS/RTOS/bare metal programming.
  • Integration and testing of the overall system for functionality, compliance and reliability.
  • Various communication technologies worked are – RS232, RS485 (MODBUS), SPI, I2C, Ethernet, USB, USB to Serial, and 1-Wire.

Powerline Communication

  • Powerline communication module selection depending upon communication distance, communication voltage and number of nodes required.
  • Identification, integration and testing of Powerline communication modules working on 230VAC, 24CDC and 3.3VDC voltage lines.

Displays & HMI

Capsense

  • Capacitive buttons for human touch interface
  • Upto 12 capacitive button interface with host microcontrollers
  • Feature development for enhancing touch sensitivity depending on how touch keys are interfaced with user through different types of mechanical fascia
  • Integration of Capsense buttons along with other wireless technologies in PCB layout development with optimal performance
  • Knowhow of multilayer PCB development for Capsense buttons integration with the product
  • Automated test fixture development for long run testing of the product

OLED

  • Identification of cost effective, low power consuming techniques for integrating OLED display in the product
  • UI design for OLED displays
  • Firmware development for low level drivers and application level integration
  • Functional and compliance testing

e-Paper

  • Identification of suitable displays for low cost HMI development
  • Hardware and firmware development for integrating e-Paper displays
  • Demonstratable knowhow on very low power consumption with wireless interface to update the information on e-Paper display

Colour TFT

  • Identification of suitable Colour TFT display with / without touchscreen
  • Multiple vendors available for different kinds of displays (TFT, Alphanumeric, custom segmented) integration with the product
  • Knowhow of hardware and firmware development for all such kinds of displays
  • Team capable of developing and implanting feature-rich UI on such displays with different architectures (HTML web pages, Qt framework, UI development software like easy GUI)

Backend Connectivity & Services

Mobile Apps

  • Native or Hybrid mobile applications development, testing and deployment.
  • UI/UX wireframes, UI and related software development, featuring the latest technologies.
  • In-depth knowledge of developing technical mobile apps using different communication technologies – BLE, Wi-Fi, NFC.
  • BLE advertising interval configuration, Bluetooth channels enabling/disabling, various encryption algorithms development and implementation, various types of access keys (public and private) identification, integration and testing.
  • Different types of database handling for optimized, fast and secure- saving & retrieving of data.
  • VAPT testing experience in communication, database handling, and API development.
  • iOS and Android apps deployment /publishing on respective app stores and interaction with their deployment teams.
Cloud Connectivity and web app

Cloud Connectivity & Web Apps

Cloud Connectivity and web app
  • UI/UX development suitable for multiple devices like PC, mobile apps, tablets.
  • Wast experience in architecting and developing Web apps and APIs withthe  latest development platforms and languages.
  • VAPT testing experience to reduce time to publish applications.
  • Desktop App development capability with various architectures and communicating with networked devices (TCPIP server-client, FTP).
  • Sizing and identifying suitable modules to deploy Web applications, databases on Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure along with security considerations.

Third Party SW integration - PMS, Oracle

Third party software Integration
  • Knowhow of setting up such integration with different partners like property management solutions providers, building management solution providers.
  • Development of custom APIs / integration and testing with third-party APIs.
  • Handling different types of Cloud subscriptions for such third-party integrations- Oracle FIAS, BACnet
Third party software Integration
Third party encoder integration

Third Party Encoder integrations

Third party encoder integration
  • Local network encoder integration with Desktop and Web applications.
  • Architecting suitable applications for third-party encoder integrations over USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi.

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