Case Study / Fifthplay

Nuvonet Portal

Fifthplay uses our offshore team to develop their Nuvonet

platform. Nuvonet is a website that makes local information,

services and shops accessible to everyone simply using a

PC, smartphone or tablet. It is a social networking website

connecting citizens, local authorities, traders, schools and

associations from the same town or region.

“It looks really great, thank you! I am very impressed from your team achievement during time we work together!” Mihail Mihaylov, Fifthplay, Project Manager

Client / Fifthplay

Technology / ASP.NET

Fifthplay develops and produces innovative technologies for energy management in

buildings and for health monitoring of patients. They are also actively working on the

further integration of technology into our buildings and cities.

Gateway is a key device for Fifthplay customers. It enables various devices to be

accessed from the Internet without a computer.

Nuvonet is one of the websites that Fifthplay provides to their customers. This system is

designed to make living in the city even more integrated and comfortable. It contains

information about stores and service providers, and allows ordering goods or services

directly from the website. Any merchant can buy Fifthplay Gateway with a printer, and

orders from the Nuvonet portal will be printed at his/her premises.

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For service providers like dentists, or restaurants, Nuvonet users can reserve a time slot

when they would like to come. This information will be printed, sent by SMS and added

into the Nuvonet Calendar.

What the client required

The customer has a rapidly expanding system which requires considerable development

effort, so they have been seeking an experienced team able to look after the project. The

team had to work independently, following Fifthplay architecture standards, and report to

technical and business people.

What we offered to our client

Our team of four professionals performs development and QA tasks on the project. A user

experience designer, also provided by MEMOS, creates UI concepts for the Nuvonet

Portal and for other customers’ projects. The co-operation between MEMOS team and

Fifthplay is based on Kanban methodology as used, for example, in Toyota plants.

Application design principles

The application was designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of users with many

different types of devices. Our main task was to create the public version of the portal,

together with user experience design and usability optimization. We have developed the

portal for use across all browsers and tablets, including iPad and Android-based devices,

and we have also developed a mobile version.

The main technologies used are as follows:

ASP.NET

MVC 3

MS SQL

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Entity Framework

JavaScript

CSS

The portal has several features, allowing the user to:

consult custom-tailored news reports and weather information

search for services of merchants, associations and service providers

order products and services directly from merchants (baker, supermarket,

etc.)

consult city information

subscribe to city events

monitor in-house energy consumption

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carry out a GPS search for closest store, restaurant, or other points of

interest

Conclusion

We offered Fifthplay three developers and one QA engineer, who work remotely in our

development centre. There is also a user experience designer who creates all the portal

designs and improves application usability. The team have considerable experience of

work in user-oriented projects, paying close attention to device compatibility, performance

and comfortable usability.