Smart home / Hub, cloud and delivery pipeline

Smart Home Hub Development: Extending A Leak-Detection Product

From a leak-detection product to a hub-based smart-home system, with CI/CD, AWS environments and an app.

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.

The opportunity

A product outgrowing its process

The client sold a water-leak detection product with a growing user base. Its next step was a smart-home hub, and its development needed an organised flow of commits and a CI/CD architecture first.

Portrait of Dr. Ivan Karbovnyk — **Ivan Karbovnyk**Chief Technology Officer, Indeema

The solution

Pipelines, then the hub

Indeema set up automated, quality-gated pipelines and separate AWS environments, then built the hub with BLE onboarding, OTA updates, logging and an app.

01CI/CD pipelines
02AWS environments
03Hub firmware
04BLE onboarding
05Smart-home app

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.

The impact

What changed for the client

6
Smart-home functions in one hub: 5,000
Users of the smart-home system

Unstructured commit flowAutomated, quality-gated pipelines
One environmentFour separate AWS environments
Leak detector onlyHub with lighting, locks and energy views
Manual firmware updatesOTA update jobs

Indeema also ran monitoring and IAM audits during maintenance. The client owns the product and its device compatibility list.

Engineering judgement

Decisions that shaped the product

Start with the delivery pipeline

The engagement began with a CI/CD prototype, so firmware builds, tests and deployments were automated before the product scope expanded.

One pipeline approach for firmware and back end

The same CI/CD conventions, quality gates and versioning were applied to ESP-IDF firmware and back-end services, which supports traceability and rollbacks.