Zesium company is regarded as a credible technical partner and the very same virtue brought us many diverse, interesting, and challenging projects. To date, we’ve initiated and developed highly innovative solutions that substantiated our expertise and kept us on the fast track.

One of such projects was done for ‘Peštan’ company from Arandjelovac, Serbia – a leader in the Balkans in the production and distribution of products and solutions from the polymers.

The global plastics industry has continuously grown for more than 50 years and for a long time, Europe and North America were leading in the global plastics production. However, recently, they are under significant competition from Asia since China is the largest producer of plastics with 25%, then followed by Europe which holds 20% and US accounted for 19.5%.

Peštan company is constantly investing into the modernization and the improvement of their equipment in order to meet the strict requirements of the European standards as well as to be able to compete successfully with other well known producers. Zesium was given the opportunity to become a part of such modernization through a project of building a system made of three parts: a web admin application, an Android Handheld application and a backend side.

The goal of the application is to enable monitoring the usage of Zebra Handheld TC 8000 device in the work process of the company and at the same time, to allow Admin Users to:

1. Follow the authentication and the renting rate of the Device
2. Distribute the messages directly to the User
3. Monitor the way the Device is used (improper usage etc.)
4. Distribute the configuration files

Zebra Handheld TC 8000 is a new warehouse mobile computer designed to deliver productivity increase in the warehouse – it is equipped with an innovative scan angle that eliminates the constant tilting of the screen, has Mobility Extensions and SimulScan that helps easily capture labels on boxes and pallets with barcodes and much more. Our client Peštan wanted the same result – less time to complete the job and the increased productivity. Zesium, as a technical partner, took a leading role in building a system that will help our client achieve the wanted result.   

The system for Peštan was done in three parts:

Web Admin application was completed in JavaScript.

The Web app is used to show the analytics of Handheld device usage, send notifications and creating the usage reports. The Admin User has the chief permission to manage total capacity of the application. Additionally, the Admin User will have the ability to access the Dashboard of the app, where he can access the elements like

lists of all devices (device ID, short description, the person responsible for the specific device),

details of the devices (information about the User of the specific device, chronologically listed past logs, sending the message directly to the User and the message status),

creating notifications (creating and sending notifications to all handheld devices),

adding the new file (marking the file and uploading it and sending to all devices),

my profile (the Users can see their profile with all necessary details like name, email, role and the last logging time) and

the reports (reports on the activities of each individual user – device name, session time, log in and log out dates etc.).

Android Handheld application was written in Android Studio.

The User of the application is able to manage the usage of the app on the Handheld device. The goal of Android app is the manage the authentication of the users as well as gathering data about the usage of the Handheld devices.

Some functionalities the Android app provides are pop up authentication alert – separate page created by Admin User where the device name and ID is detected through the service or hardcoded in the app preferences. Afterwards, the User has the chance to unlock the device through swiping RFID card on the Handheld. This way, the User can be verified and confirmed to have the right to access the device as well as the time the User started using the device. There are also features like Time Out (device inactivity time), monitoring sudden movement of the device as well as display of notifications and receipt confirmation.

Backend was written in Java using Spring framework with the database in MySQL.

Since Peštan operates in more than 70 countries worldwide, Zesium needed to maintain the high level of quality when building the application – embracing our originative solutions resulted in a robust application that fosters faster communication and data transparency.

Today, Peštan company is referred to as a very distinctive and significant company at the international level with the focus on an export to many foreign markets and with respect for each individual customer’s request.

We are glad that Zesium was selected to be a part of Peštan’s vision to become recognized as a leader in the Balkans – our assistance in developing such robust application advocates Peštan’s mission to create a competitive advantage in the customers’ businesses with the help of the first-class solutions, services and products.

We contribute to our success by consistently meeting the needs of the clients as well as developing new, creative solutions for the best results for both, our partners and our company.