Naxtre

Mohali-based Naxtre designs and ships Internet of Things products, from firmware and device provisioning through to cloud platforms and the control apps users rely on. The company says it has operated since 2015 and began with mobile app development before concentrating on the Internet of Things, the field of devices that are connected to networks and to each other.

Five layers of IoT development

Naxtre says it works across five layers. Embedded and firmware development covers power budgets, duty cycles, audio and sensor tuning, the work that decides how long a device lasts on a charge. Connectivity and device provisioning covers pairing on real networks, secure onboarding, over-the-air updates and the grouping of fleets of devices. The company offers this through Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi and NB-IoT links.

Cloud platform development covers the ingestion of device messages, device registries, rules engines, storage and the interfaces that connect them. Control apps and dashboards give the customer the interface through which they judge a product, including scheduling, sharing, notifications, activity history and offline behaviour. Its data and predictive maintenance work completes the list.

Fixing products already in the field

The company says it can join a project at any point, whether the client has a working board, a product still at the idea stage or a fleet inherited from someone else. In one case, a safety device whose battery was draining in the field was improved by rewriting its software and connectivity logic. Naxtre says this cut power use by up to 90 percent without changing the hardware.

Industrial and consumer work

For a payment device maker, Naxtre built systems that track manufacturing status, map QR codes to unique device identifiers and load the correct language firmware before a unit is cleared for dispatch, which it says reached 99.9 percent accuracy. For a large electrical equipment group, the company replaced ageing transformer services with a scalable platform for health monitoring, predictive maintenance and real-time analytics across a renewable fleet.

Naxtre also built a temperature telemetry component that can be placed inside another company's mobile app without slowing it down. Products it has worked on, according to the company, include utility meters, refrigerated transport monitors, charging equipment for electric vehicles, card terminals, personal safety devices and grid transformers. It says it has handled more than a million units of telemetry to date.