Digital Access and Security Products

Client's Overview:

A leading well know brand providing security & digital access solutions.

Challenges:

In an era where safety and security are one of people’s biggest concerns, the advent of technology has introduced digital safety apparatuses. A popular one amongst these is the electronic lock. Due to its keys that cannot be copied, central access, digital encryptions, and regular updates offer them more security in comparison with mechanical locking systems.

However, due to the limited success so far in the digital lock market and control over the product design roadmap, it was difficult for them to maintain the leadership position in the market. They had a high dependency on traded product portfolios and still had to navigate through the features of their potential product.

Solution & Approach:

The need was to establish a detailed product roadmap for the digital lock portfolio with upgraded versions for the next 3 years

Our team successfully delivered end-to-end product development requirements covering –

Hardware platform design & development, potentially delivering upgradable products and technologies
Facilitated wireless connectivity
Collaborated with client’s mechanical design, engineering, manufacturing and service teams
Selected appropriate semiconductor vendors as per the product’s technical requirements
Incorporated various access control technologies for intuitive and an easy-to-use user interface
Product certifications and compliances with international standards including ATEX

Field installations and service support facilitating future roadmap

Results

Increased product relevancy through redesign
Improved user experience: facilitating wireless connectivity to enhance product performance and user convenience
Hardware & Firmware platform and PC software catering to multiple product variants
Developed low power consumption strategy to enhance battery life in the product.

Outcome:

Products are successfully deployed on the field for residential and hospitality markets.

Technology Areas

Fingerprints-based Secured Access Control
Algorithms for secured access
Wireless Connectivity with security cameras and key fobs
Capacitive buttons based intuitive user interface

Hardware

A total of 5 PCBs – all double-sided PTH
Schematics, BOM, Layouts, and Gerbers: PADS from Mentor Graphics
Microcontroller: STM32L4 series 32-bit Low Power ARM Cortex M4 core MCU
Capacitive buttons: Cypress dedicated controller
RF ISM band: Maxim controller
Fingerprint sensor module – Imagematch Inc

Firmware

Bare metal programming in C Language
IDE: System Workbench for STM32-AC6