About the client
Polku Innovations is a Finland-based technology company specializing in IoT-enabled property management and intelligent building systems. The company builds infrastructure for data-rich environments, including Twinly — its 3D digital twin platform that consolidates sensor data, environmental metrics, and operational insights. With a strong focus on AI, automation, and cloud-native architectures, Polku helps organizations modernize how buildings are monitored, maintained, and optimized.
Business context
Our partner, Polku Innovations, is a well-known tech company specializing in built environment digitalization, IoT, and cloud solutions. They also own a scalable 3D visualization platform for buildings’ digital twins – Twinly.
This solution was highly evaluated by the primary audience — real estate companies, property management agencies, and property experts, as well as property owners and building managers. We empowered them with complex real-time deep analytics that allowed them to cut costs and boost sales.
Furthermore, Geniusee collaborated with Polku in the development of Twinly, a scalable platform for building digital twins in 3D that utilizes our proprietary deep technology and the power of the IFC standard. A single, easy-to-use, mobile-first interface aggregates building data from multiple data sources using IoT solutions.
Keep the system running while increasing its complexity by adding new powerful and resource-demanding features
Work with a vast amount of new data that comes in every second from smart devices placed in multiple properties
Optimize each request to run through an extensive database
Run triple checks for each solution, even for well-known, and their joint work with the central system
Assure productivity, speed, and velocity of 3 different databases
Solutions we implemented
Geniusee usually starts working with a client from a discovery phase, yet, here, we skipped this part as Polku and Twinly team already knew what they needed and had a platform that needed redesign and upgrades. We developed proactive collaboration with the client, offering solutions and improvements based on our expertise, market, user, and competitors’ research.
Project management
As a part of our continuous delivery process, we actively track documents, such as stakeholders’ registers and communication plans, a risk list we follow with clients, and the roadmap. The client’s CTO stepped in as a business analyst, supporting the development lifecycle and defining requirements. Metrics also track sprint releases, team performance, quality assurance, and finances.
Design
We started with a system redesign. The previous client’s design was built on the AntDesign framework but was a bit outdated. We updated a system interface without migrating to other frameworks or solutions, and based the development of the whole dashboard on AntDesign. We used many tools and complex solutions based on open source to align with the client’s system.
Full-stack development
We tailored both the frontend and backend of the web application for smart buildings based on IoT technology. We also delivered a complete logic of the system. We built a vast range of new features and functions to extend the system’s possibilities according to the client’s CTO requirements, such as, e.g., the recording function to create data reports and analysis. We also supported the whole system and assured its scalability.
DevOps engineering
We tailored and configured a data pipeline to make it easier to use IoT. Geniusee’s team also delivered a configuration of Google Cloud settings for the frontend and backend. We also aligned it with different data centers. Our DevOps engineers provided a complete documentation package for the deployment and installation of the delivered data pipeline.
Remote hardware configuration
- Scanners based on a radio network that is free in Finland
- Full configuration documentation
- The end user sends a request to the system, and the provider customizes devices according to the user’s needs
Reporting and interactive data representation
- Collection of the data from IoT devices and scanners
- Analysis of essential indexes: temperature, humidity level, dew formation temperature, etc.
- Unified data system with data tracking and real-time data collection
- Reports personalization according to end users’ needs
- Report module updates via the admin panel
- Data interpretation based on graphics
House maintenance assignments
- Managers may overview all the data in a comfortable way
- Tenants may create requests for current and recurring maintenance
- Statistics by categories: type of request, building, worker
3D models rendering library
- Create a blueprint of the building
- Upload the blueprint
- Convert it into the 3d model
- Based on rendering libraries
Long-term partnership and collaboration that brought up IoT-based data-driven solutions for the real estate industry
Digitazion boost for property management that reshapes the building landscape
3D model rendering and visualization system to manage the built environment through the whole lifecycle
Multiple system integrations based on IoT solutions to empower service delivery
Powerful digital twins that make the building world more accessible and intelligible
Harnessed analysis system based on real-time data incomes, quality check-ups, AI-based solutions, and direct communication with databases
