User-Friendly Software for Active Motion Workstations to Track Employee Physical Activity
Summary
A Canadian maker of active motion workstations wanted intuitive software to connect employees with its furniture and to track and encourage their physical activity. INNERLUXES delivered a user-friendly WPF application that adjusts the workstations to guide movement, measures activity and calories, gamifies wellness with challenges and rewards, and synchronizes settings online and offline — work that gave the Client's products a competitive edge and grew its corporate user base.
About the Client
The Client is a Canadian company that designs and manufactures innovative office furniture solutions. Built on the principles of non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) and non-exercise physical activity (NEPA), its active motion workstations bring a healthier atmosphere into the everyday office environment.
A User-Friendly Interface and an Activity-Tracking App
The Client wanted to create a user-friendly UI for user-to-workstation communication and to develop an application that tracks and encourages employee physical activity — making movement an easy, natural part of the working day.
Software That Guides Movement and Gamifies Wellness
As an experienced web development and UI design service provider, INNERLUXES was chosen for the task. The team delivered software that adjusts the elements of the workstations to guide employees to move, so the transition into a more active posture happens in a smooth, user-controlled way.
The solution also calculates the calories burnt, monitors motor activity, sets users fitness challenges, and rewards health-related achievements with virtual prizes. A user profile system stores personalized settings, schedules of furniture-position changes, and activity data; to let people synchronize settings across environments — for example, at work and at home — the system was linked to Azure Cloud. Users can interact with it in both online and offline modes, uploading personal settings via USB flash drives.
INNERLUXES's specialists also refactored the code across all devices in the Client's active motion workstation system, implementing a modern programming architecture that enabled:
- Low-level operations with Arduino controllers through the serial port.
- An up-to-date .NET environment.
- Online and offline synchronization.
- An API for activity-tracking challenges and results sharing.
A Competitive Edge and More Corporate Users
The successfully delivered solution gave the Client's products a competitive edge and significantly increased the number of corporate users.
Technologies and Tools
.NET 4.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), SQLite, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), Microsoft Azure Cloud.