Technologies

 

Kunde:	FileWave
Applikation:	FileWave
Technologie:	Design, UX, Redesign

Since 1992, FileWave has been providing mobile device management software to customers in the business, education, and government sectors. The goal is to guarantee the efficient, effective and secure use of mobile devices and their applications and content, starting from a user-friendly console.
FileWave serves its customers from offices in Europe and the USA.

Thanks to its unique mobile device management software, FileWave has become a key player in the mobile tablet revolution. This software is a multi-platform distribution system. Institutions already deploy and support millions of interactive tablet products, computers and smartphones supported by Filewave client and Filewave MDM software.

For the core products Filewave Management Suite and Engage, soXes has completely revised and improved the UI and UX design. A new color scheme was defined and new icons were created to further improve the usability of the tools.
Furthermore, soXes has graphically adapted the Filewave website (www.filewave.ch) to reflect the new design.

 

Kunde:	Wiegand AG
Applikation:	Wiegand
Technologie:	JAVA, SOA, SQL, Java Script, Angular JS, Python, Phone Gap, Mobile, Unit Test, Build Server

Wiegand AG, based in Bülach, specializes in drug management and hospital logistics. It develops concepts for medication processes, storage and transport of medication and consumables in hospitals and homes.
 
In a comprehensive IT project of more than 2 years duration, with a team of 7 developers, Wiegand AG has commissioned soXes to develop a secure, fast and reliable system that ensures the management of medication in hospitals. This comprehensive system is based on four pillars: WMCC (central management server) WMPS (directional station), WM5R (mobile device for dispensing) and the MedManager Cockpit (WMCP)
 
The WMPS straightening station is primarily concerned with the electronic support of the set-up or preparation of medication. Via 2D barcode readers, all medications for straightening are identified and managed - including LOT and expiry dates, if available. Step by step, the straightening station guides the nursing staff both when straightening medication into the distribution dispenser and when providing individual medication. The electronic prescription provides information about the medication, preparation and dispensing. Straightening and dispensing activities are compared with the time axis. Traffic light functions signal the urgency status of the activities.
 
WM5R is a mobile app that runs on various operating systems and devices. It ensures that medication can be traced back to the patient's bedside, thus ensuring traceability and medication safety by allowing the dispensing process to be logged directly at the patient's bedside. The WM5R app implements the 5-R rule: right patient, right drug, right dosage, right application, right time.  Both the entries from the WMPS and the WM5R are automatically fed back into the hospital system.
 
The WMM environment can be managed with the web application WMCP Cockpit. In addition to user and group administration and an overview of patients and prescriptions, this includes a very large part of logistics. The entire supply of the pharmacy and central warehouse as well as the ward can be monitored and coordinated via WMCP. The staff has an overview of the stock levels of all wards everywhere and at any time via a web-based interface. Orders are automatically triggered or manually released and transmitted to the purchasing system. Thus, every material movement is automatically saved (date, user, patient). Evaluations per package, LOT, expiration date, etc. make it possible to trace the movements in detail. The automatic ordering procedure is a central component of this solution and is implemented based on three principles:
1. directional station: according to the dispensations (consumption), the system determines a forecast of the future demand for a drug.
2. kanban: orders are automatically triggered when stock levels fall below a certain level.
3. autoinventory: special cabinets with scales, especially for consumables, allow a completely automatic warehouse, which determines the stock and the necessary orders by weight.
 
The Wiegand drug management system is based on the Java programming language with a PostgreSQL database in the background for WMCC and WMPS. The WMCP was implemented with Python on the server and AngularJS, Bootstrap and HTML5 on the frontend. The WM5R app runs under Phonegap (Apache Cordova) on all major mobile platforms. Throughout Switzerland, the system has already been successfully implemented in several hospitals and connected to the local hospital information and prescription system, while maintaining the HL7 (Health Level 7 an international standard for the exchange of data between health care organizations and their computer systems) standard.

 

Kunde:	TUS - Telekommunikation und Sicherheit
Applikation:	TUS AIN
Technologie:	Graylog Cluster, Microservices, Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodik, Data Loss Prevention, Split Brain Prevention

In the sixties of the last century, the then PTT was looking for strong partners to operate and finance an alarm transmission service in Switzerland. Securiton AG and Cerberus AG (now Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies) took up the challenge. In 1968 they founded the interest group TUS Telekommunikation und Sicherheit. The pioneering spirit was rewarded: Thanks to constant technical innovations and considerable investments, TUS today presents itself as a modern and efficient multi-technology provider with brilliant future prospects.

TUS AIN (Automatic Intelligent Notification) was developed in order to bring the notification of system faults and alarms, which until then had mainly been personalised, to more modern technologies such as SMS, push, email, pager and automated voice call. In this way, a notification can be automatically sent by TUS AIN to the responsible alarm recipients and to the desired medium. If required, it can also be displayed and edited via a mobile app. A high-performance IP-based network is used to transmit the messages.

TUS AIN is supplied by the TUS alarmDispatcher system with information on the status of the subscriber terminals and their sensors and is mainly used as a notification centre that can be configured in great detail.

The following technologies and solutions are used specifically: Graylog Cluster, Microservices - including Log Service, Notification Service, System Monitoring (PRTG and others), Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodology, Data Loss Prevention, Split Brain Prevention.

 

Kunde:	TUS - Telecommunications and Security
Applikation:	TUS alarmDispatcher
Technologie:	Graylog Cluster, Microservices, InputChecker, System Monitoring, Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodik

In the sixties of the last century, the then PTT was looking for strong partners to operate and finance an alarm transmission service in Switzerland. Securiton AG and Cerberus AG (now Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies) took up the challenge. In 1968 they founded the interest group TUS Telekommunikation und Sicherheit. The pioneering spirit was rewarded: Thanks to constant technical innovations and considerable investments, TUS today presents itself as a modern and efficient multi-technology provider with interesting prospects for the future.

In line with this, the TUS alarmDispatcher, an integrated alarm management system for the systematic distribution of system faults, emergency calls and alarms, is designed and implemented using the latest technological possibilities. A high-performance IP-based network is used to transmit the messages.

The TUS alarmDispatcher is a switching unit which ensures that customer terminals (e.g. hazard detection systems) can send appropriate messages to designated alarm receivers (e.g. blue light organisations) within a few milliseconds while maintaining a specified persistence. Alarm receiving points include TUS AIN (Automatic Intelligent Notification) - the smart platform behind the alarmOBSERVER - or eAlarm (Swisscom's intelligent alarm receiving point).

At the same time, the alarm receiving point can send control commands (e.g. lock doors) to the alarm transmission points. Consequently, the TUS alarmDispatcher can function as a duplex.

In order to comply with the high availability and alarm technology compliant guidelines (EN50518, EN50136), the following technologies and solutions are used: Graylog Cluster, Microservices - among others Log Service, InputChecker, System Monitoring (PRTG among others), Redis Sentinel, Nginx, Galera Cluster, JSON, Push-pull Methodology, Split Brain Prevention

 

Kunde:	TUS - Telecommunications and Security
Applikation:	TUS BatchMerger (BTM)
Technologie:	.NET, SQL, C#

In the sixties of the last century, the then PTT was looking for strong partners to operate and finance an alarm transmission service in Switzerland. Securiton AG and Cerberus AG (now Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies) took up the challenge. In 1968 they founded the interest group TUS Telekommunikation und Sicherheit. The pioneering spirit was rewarded: Thanks to constant technical innovations and considerable investments, TUS today presents itself as a modern and efficient multi-technology provider with interesting prospects for the future.

The TUS BatchMerger (BTM) is mainly used as a data supplier of the object configuration for the TUS Automatic Intelligent Notification (AIN) system. The object data comes from two different ERPs and three different locations in Zurich, Lausanne and Lugano. In the first stage of expansion, a UI is still being used for processing the object data, but this UI will be removed later. The object data can be enriched with additional information in the BTM or cleansed of superfluous information.

The ERP object data is loaded cyclically into the BTM and then prepared for processing in the BTM UI. All actions on the object data are historized in order to detect changes to the ERP data and then pass the adjustments on to BTM.

The BTM runs as a classic .NET MVC Client Server application with a MS SQL database server in the background.

With the introduction of TUS AIN, the change to the new media for notifications is completed, which is a great relief for TUS.

 

Kunde:	TUS - Telecommunications and Security
Applikation:	TUS TecTool
Technologie:	PHP, MySQL, Yii, Amphp Framework, Graylog, Angular 4, REST, Websocket

IG TUS Telekommunikation und Sicherheit, founded in 1968 by today's Securiton AG and Siemens Schweiz AG, Building Technologies, offers alarmNET services for the entire alarm chain in the context of building surveillance.

As a result of the discontinuation of the 2G mobile phone network at the end of 2019, 20,000 subscriber terminals installed at customers' premises will have to be replaced in order to ensure continued uninterrupted monitoring.

To simplify the processes, soXes developed the TUS TecTool for TUS, which supports the technician in replacing the old device and guides him safely through the migration in predefined process steps.

Thanks to the experience gained with soXes' proprietary instaGuard development, the customer was provided with both technical and business-related know-how.

The TUS TecTool acts as a central deployment tool for replacing the existing hardware. The technician on site is guided through the process and can control it simultaneously on various devices such as laptop, tablet or mobile phone.

Various security mechanisms prevent unauthorised persons from gaining access to the affected object or application (2-factor authentication).

The TecTool communicates with different surrounding systems and orchestrates the complete process of a migration as well as the testing of the newly installed end device.

In case of a problem, the technician is accompanied during the semi-automated rollback to the original state.

The user interface remains clear and user-friendly despite the wealth of information provided.

After completion of the work, the protocol of the work and tests carried out is automatically sent as a PDF file to the technician as well as to other defined recipients. In addition, TUS' own ABACUS system is updated during a nightly status comparison.

Via the back office, the client can check the status of an order at any time or even adopt it to the greatest extent possible. Text adjustments, parameterisation and configuration of the TUS TecTool can be carried out simply and intuitively by the administrators.

Of course, all actions are logged and are available to the client via the back office for evaluation via Graylog. Not only the log data of the TUS TecTool is entered, but also that of the primary peripheral systems. This provides a quick and seamless overview of all connections and processes in connection with a migration in progress or completed.

The project was based on the specification developed in several workshops by the client and soXes.

Thanks to the agile and SCRUM-based approach to the implementation, changes to the specification could be implemented promptly and without far-reaching cost consequences.

The short sprints allowed a flexible and immediate reaction to changed constellations and extended requirements of surrounding systems.

The introduction of the TUS TecTool enables the technicians on site to carry out a guided replacement of the old components. This also reduces the telephone support effort required by the customer to a minimum. The standardised process guarantees uniform execution of the migration work.

Whereas in the past, technicians had to perform a number of actions manually and with telephone consultation, the TUS TecTool enables automated switching of peripheral systems and displays the test results clearly and comprehensibly in the application. 

The TUS TecTool has also been designed so that it can be used and adapted for further processes after the migration phase is complete.