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Tego, a company headquartered in Waltham, MA, that provides IIoT solutions for asset management, planned to upgrade its IT infrastructure to rapidly scale its business. First Line Software engineers exported Tego applications from the .NET Framework to.NET Core.
Tego Solutions transform the infrastructure of enterprise systems into a digital environment in which each physical product or asset object contains detailed information about every one of its transactions, interactions with employees, maintenance, and other metrics. Tego’s integrated platform, the Asset Intelligence Platform (AIP), consists of chips, tags, and software. The AIP collects, stores, and processes data from equipment that makes it easy and safe to manage important assets of manufacturing enterprises through a wireless communication protocol.
The Solution
With the release of version 2.1 of the .NET Core platform, Tego decided to migrate its applications to a new open-source environment. In .NET Core 2.1, the main libraries of EF and, Signalr were introduced, and in some cases, even more advanced libraries, such as EF 6 and EF Core were implemented. These libraries are compact and advanced in terms of new features such as alternate keys, batch updates, and mixed client/database evaluation in LINQ queries.
A Non-Complicated Transfer
The migration turned out to require a minimal amount of resources. Analysis of the system’s interactions with third-party components and their dependencies showed that for all of them, there were already versions for .NET Core or .NET Standard. The .NET Standard specification allows developers to create libraries available for the .NET Core and .NET Framework.
In certain cases, the correct solution was to rewrite services using the mechanism for providing external dependencies to software components (Dependency Injection – DI). One of the important aspects was the use of all the advantages of Middleware.
The transfer of MVC controllers required the introduction of a number of simple changes. For example, engineers developed a special filter to control the authorization of customers on the site, which has now become Middleware.
The Benefits
As a result of the migration, Tego now has a cross-platform, high-performance, and scalable application with modern architecture and a lower cost of ownership. After the IoT Hub data is transferred to the IoT platform, the information becomes available online through web browsers and mobile applications. Thanks to .NET Core, Tego can provide its customers with even more flexible, reliable, and stable IIoT solutions to increase production and process efficiency and reduce capital costs.
The Technological Stack
Tego is a platform based on the .NET Framework. Mongo DB is used as a database, and the mobile app part is written in Xamarin. A Cross-platform library supports all primary mobile and operating systems on PCs, including such as iOS, Android, Windows, and OS X, and can be integrated with enterprise applications.
