About Client
The world today is witnessing a growing trend in the use of technology in the health sector. This allowed us to assist our client, a pharmaceutical company in tracking medical devices and the quality of medicines on the go along with the inventory and transit status, and we supported them in AWS to IoT integration.
Project Background
In this case study, we achieved the following:
- How we implemented a small AWS IoT integration application with a toolkit to assure product quality, elevate the efficiency of medical devices, and raise alerts in case manual intervention is required
- Set up AWS for the application to manage the devices seamlessly
- Interaction with the device to fetch vital information
- Finally, creating a mobile application and using AWS IoT to monitor the devices
Scope & Requirement
We used the below solution components to create a responsive web application that gives a holistic view of all the devices connected to the system and information on their vital parameters.
Implementation
Technology and Architecture
Technology/ Services used
We used AWS services and helped them to setup below
- Cloud: AWS
- Organization setup: Control tower
- AWS SSO for authentication using existing AzureAD credentials
- Policies setup: Created AWS service control policies
- Templates created for using common AWS services
Security & Compliance:
- Tagging Policies
- AWS config for compliance checks
- NIST compliance
- Guardrails
- Security Hub
Network Architecture
- Site to Site VPN Architecture using Transit Gateway
- Distributed AWS Network Firewall
- Monitoring with Cloud Watch and VPC flow logs.
Backup and Recovery
Cloud systems and components used followed AWS’s well-Architected framework and the resources were all Multi-zone availability with uptime of 99.99% or more.
Cost Optimization
Alerts and notifications are configured in the AWS cost
Code Management, Deployment
Cloudformation scripts for creating stacksets and scripts for generating AWS services was handed over to the client
Challenges
- We encountered some issues as below:
- AWS setup and pricing were complicated to understand as it is based on usage and consumption, which was a difficult thing to assess at the start of the application
- Ensuring data privacy and security is of utmost importance in this case. Since devices can be hacked without much effort due to poor encryption and that could allow unauthorized access
- Impeccable quality assurance of the whole setup was to be achieved in this case of the pharmaceutical industry, which involves dealing with medicines are surgical instruments, so there was a need for honest sharing of information if anything was not going as expected.
- Understanding the client’s vision of how they needed the UI was challenging.
Support
- 1 month of extended support
- A template for Cloud formation stack to create more AWS resources using the available stacks
- Screen-sharing sessions with a demo of how the services and new workloads can be deployed.
