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DevOps services and solutions for connected products

Indeema assesses, builds and runs the delivery side of software: CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, infrastructure, monitoring and logging. In connected products the same discipline covers device firmware, so builds, tests and over-the-air updates reach devices in the field through a pipeline you can trace and roll back.

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Two release paths, one product: what ships to the cloud can be redeployed; what ships to a device must be able to recover on its own.

Overview

What DevOps services cover

DevOps brings development and operations together, so software moves from a commit to production through automated, repeatable steps instead of manual handovers. As a DevOps solutions and service provider company, Indeema helps you design a DevOps strategy that speeds up your software delivery without compromising quality, then builds and runs the pipelines, environments and monitoring that strategy needs.

Much of our DevOps work is for connected products, where one release can touch a cloud back end, a mobile or web app and the firmware on devices that are already installed. That adds requirements a web-only pipeline does not have: firmware builds and bench tests, signed images, staged over-the-air rollout and a way to recover a device without visiting it.

Diagram linking a phone app and AWS Cloud to a smart-home hub over Bluetooth, and the hub over a custom radio network to household devices including heating, lights, water, fire and locks.
System overview: the app reaches the hub over Bluetooth and the AWS cloud; the hub reaches home devices over a custom radio network. Extending a leak-detection product into a connected smart-home hub

Services

DevOps solutions and services we provide

Six services, from assessing your current delivery process to running it after launch. Engage us for one of them or for the whole path.

  1. DevOps consulting

    An assessment of your current DevOps setup, from repositories and branching to builds, tests, environments, releases and monitoring, followed by a DevOps model for your project: what to automate first, which tools to keep and which risks to remove.

  2. Planning and building architecture

    We plan and build the delivery architecture around your product’s needs: environments from sandbox to production, access control, secrets handling, backups and the way each component, including firmware, is built, versioned and released.

    Cloud & Connected Systems

  3. DevOps automation

    Automating the pipeline from code commit to production: builds, unit and integration tests, static analysis, packaging, deployment and infrastructure changes, so a release is a repeatable step rather than a manual procedure.

  4. Pilot framework development

    A working pilot on one component first, integrated with the repositories, issue tracker, cloud accounts and open-source or licensed tools you already use. Once the pilot proves the approach, the same conventions extend to the rest of the product.

  5. Post-production and maintenance

    Our work does not have to end when the pipeline is delivered. We can keep monitoring workflows and infrastructure, apply patches and access reviews, run update jobs and recommend improvements to how you build and operate the product.

    Software maintenance and support

  6. CI/CD pipeline

    We guide you through adopting continuous integration and continuous deployment: every change built and tested automatically, quality gates that block a bad build, and deployment to each environment with traceable versions and a rollback path.

Cloud and firmware releases

How do cloud releases and firmware releases differ?

A connected product ships more than one kind of software. Cloud and app releases can be rolled back in minutes; a firmware release reaches hardware that may be offline, battery-powered or out of reach. The pipeline has to treat them differently.

Cloud services and apps

  1. Build and test

    Unit and integration tests, static analysis, container or package build

  2. Release unit

    A container image, serverless function or app build per environment

  3. Rollout

    Deploy to pre-production, then production; app stores add their own review and staged rollout

  4. Rollback

    Redeploy the previous version

  5. Monitoring

    Service logs, metrics and alerts

Device firmware (OTA)

  1. Build and test

    Cross-compiled builds, static analysis, bench or hardware-in-the-loop tests on real boards

  2. Release unit

    A versioned, signed firmware image tied to a hardware revision

  3. Rollout

    Staged rollout to a small group of devices first, with update jobs and reporting per device

  4. Rollback

    Keep a fallback image or factory-reset path on the device, because it cannot be fixed by redeploying a server

  5. Monitoring

    Update success per device, version distribution across the fleet and device logs collected without exposing user data

Firmware architecture and the update mechanism on the device are engineered with our embedded and firmware team; the services they talk to are covered on Cloud & Connected Systems.

Technologies

DevOps tools and technologies we use

We work with the cloud provider and tools a product already uses where they fit, and recommend changes after the assessment rather than before it.

Advantages

Advantages of DevOps development services

  1. Greater customer satisfaction

    Small, tested releases reach users sooner, and a defect found in production is fixed and redeployed through the same pipeline instead of an emergency procedure.

  2. Better collaboration between teams

    Developers, testers and operations share one pipeline and one definition of a releasable build. In a connected product that includes the firmware, cloud and app teams.

  3. Increased productivity

    Automated builds, tests and deployments replace manual steps, so engineers spend their time on the product rather than on repeating a release checklist.

  4. Less manual release work

    Infrastructure and deployments defined in version-controlled configuration remove one-off manual work and make each environment reproducible.

  5. Scaling with controlled risk

    Separate environments, staged rollouts and a rollback path let you add services, users or devices while limiting how far a bad release can spread.

  6. Reliable and stable IT infrastructure

    Monitored, backed-up infrastructure with reviewed access rights and a tested restore path, rather than a system only one person knows how to run.

Connected products

Where DevOps fits in a connected product

In a connected product DevOps is one layer of a single system: device, firmware, connectivity, cloud and app. These are the release decisions to settle before scope is fixed.

  1. Release more than one kind of software

    A connected product ships cloud services, mobile apps and device firmware, each with a different release cadence and risk. Define a pipeline and approval path for each, and how compatible versions are tracked together.

  2. Automate the checks that protect the field

    Build, test and static analysis catch problems early. For firmware, add hardware-in-the-loop or bench tests and define which failures block a release.

  3. Plan device updates as a first-class flow

    Over-the-air updates need signing, staged rollout, rollback and reporting. Decide how a failed update is detected and recovered without visiting the device.

  4. Monitor what matters to operations

    Define the metrics, logs and alerts for cloud services and device fleets, who receives them, and how sensitive data is kept out of logs.

  5. Treat infrastructure as reviewed code

    Environment definitions, secrets handling, backups and access control belong in a reviewed, repeatable process. Record recovery objectives and test the restore path.

Line drawing of a lift car and motor room with the monitoring device on the wall, connected through a cloud to the LiftEnergy+ portal on a monitor and a phone.
The device in the lift motor room sends data through the cloud to the LiftEnergy+ web portal. A lift energy and trip monitor, from meter interface to web portal

Why Indeema

Why choose Indeema for DevOps as a service

  • Customized DevOps services

    The setup addresses your challenges and requirements: the cloud provider, repositories and tools you already have, the components you ship and the release risk each one carries.

  • Scalability

    Pipelines and environments are designed with future growth in mind: more services, more developers, more devices and more release targets without rebuilding the process.

  • High-quality output

    Quality is built into the pipeline: automated tests, static analysis such as SonarQube, versioned artifacts and environments that keep testing apart from the live system.

  • On-time fixes and updates

    Fixes and updates go through the same tested path as features, so the system stays up and running and devices receive patches without a site visit.

Case studies

DevOps work Indeema has delivered

Five projects whose case pages describe the pipelines, environments and operations we built.

  1. Square white smart-home hub in front of a house model with heating, lighting, fire and water icons, beside a phone showing the home screen with door lock, alarm and room readings.

    CI/CD · SonarQube · OTA

    CI/CD and AWS operations for a smart-home hub

    The engagement began with a CI/CD prototype. Pipelines for ESP-IDF firmware automate compilation, testing and deployment with SonarQube checks and versioning, and the same approach was extended to back-end services. The AWS setup has sandbox, development, pre-production and production environments with IAM, OTA update jobs and monitoring, plus IAM audits during maintenance.

    Extending a leak-detection product into a connected smart-home hub
  2. Sensocor sensor unit in front of a laptop showing a patient-details page with three indicator graphs, and a phone showing three live signal traces.

    Azure DevOps · Kubernetes · OTA

    Build pipelines for a sensor, cloud and apps

    The client had no CI/CD. Azure DevOps repositories and pipelines run unit tests on each commit and produce deployable artifacts for firmware, back end, web and mobile. Firmware images are fetched from Azure Blob Storage for BLE updates, and the back end uses Azure Kubernetes Service scaling with Azure monitoring and logging.

    Sensocor: from a Bluetooth heart-signal sensor to a doctor's web portal
  3. Black LiftEnergy+ monitoring box with status LEDs, a monitor showing monthly lift energy consumption bars and a table of starts and kWh, and a phone showing an installation checklist.

    Docker · OTA · GitLab

    Pipelines for a lift-monitoring device and portal

    An embedded pipeline for the C++ and ESP-IDF firmware with automated testing and OTA updates, and a web portal that uses Docker for consistent deployment and AWS for hosting. Indeema continues to maintain the system, including regular over-the-air firmware updates over LTE and Wi-Fi.

    A lift energy and trip monitor, from meter interface to web portal
  4. Illustration of a storage tank with a cellular gateway and an industrial controller, connected through a cloud to the VikingSCADA web portal on a laptop.

    Docker · GitLab CI

    Update pipeline for field gateways

    Gateway software packaged in Docker with a reduced image size, and an automated pipeline that publishes new images to cloud storage so an update can be launched on selected nodes from the web portal. The application is maintained with patches, monitoring and backups.

    Extending a SCADA product with cloud monitoring and gateway updates
  5. Enersponse DRMS reports page on a laptop with a site-energy line chart and an hourly usage heat map, beside a wind turbine and solar panel illustration.

    Serverless Framework · Bitbucket Pipelines

    Review of a live serverless energy platform

    A review of an existing AWS serverless platform and its pipelines, then reworked logging to replace shared CloudWatch log streams and more consistent deployment and testing through the Serverless Framework and Bitbucket Pipelines, followed by ongoing support.

    Scaling an OpenADR demand-response platform on AWS serverless
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FAQ

DevOps questions

  1. What are DevOps services?

    DevOps services put in place the processes and tooling that bring development and operations together: version control, automated builds and tests, deployment pipelines, environments, infrastructure management and monitoring. The aim is to release good software more often and with less manual work.

  2. What are the benefits of DevOps?

    Teams that adopt DevOps typically release more often, find defects earlier through automated tests, recover faster because every change is versioned and can be rolled back, and spend less time on manual deployment. How much of that you gain depends on where your process starts.

  3. What can DevOps be used for?

    DevOps applies wherever software is built and run: web platforms, mobile apps, cloud back ends and embedded firmware. Its primary goal is to break down the silos between development and operations and build a software culture driven by collaboration and automation.

  4. Do you provide DevOps managed services?

    Yes, for the infrastructure and pipelines we build or take over. That can include monitoring and logging, patching, access reviews, backups, OTA update jobs for devices and improvements to the pipeline over time. We agree the scope and response expectations with you before the service starts.

  5. Are there any challenges associated with DevOps?

    The main challenge is organizational: moving from separate teams and manual handovers to a shared pipeline and shared responsibility. Technical challenges follow, such as legacy build steps, missing tests and, in connected products, firmware that cannot be updated or rolled back as easily as a server.

  6. How do I choose the right DevOps service provider?

    Look for a provider that starts with an assessment, works with your existing tools where they fit, can show pipelines it has built for products like yours and leaves documentation your team can run. For a connected product, ask how they test and release firmware, not only cloud services.

  7. What does a DevOps assessment include?

    We review repositories and branching, build and test steps, environments, deployment, secrets and access, monitoring and recovery. The result is a list of risks and a prioritized plan: what to automate first, what to keep and what a pilot pipeline should prove.

  8. Can you build CI/CD pipelines for firmware and embedded devices?

    Yes. We have built pipelines that compile, test and version ESP-IDF firmware with SonarQube checks, and pipelines that produce firmware artifacts alongside back-end, web and mobile builds. Bench or hardware-in-the-loop tests can be added as release gates.

  9. How do you handle over-the-air firmware updates?

    Firmware images are built and versioned in the pipeline and published to cloud storage, then delivered through update jobs, over Wi-Fi or LTE, or through the companion app over Bluetooth. We plan staged rollout, reporting per device and a fallback path with the firmware team.

  10. Can you work with our existing cloud, repositories and tools?

    Yes. Our case pages include work on AWS and Azure, with GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket Pipelines and GitHub Actions. We usually improve an existing setup step by step, starting with a pilot, rather than replacing tools that already work.

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Start with how your software reaches production today

A first conversation covers what you ship, how it is built and released now, and where releases fail or slow down, not a tool pitch.

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  • The components you ship: cloud services, apps, firmware
  • Your repositories, CI tools and cloud provider
  • How releases and device updates happen today
  • The part you want Indeema to own
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