Enabling Smart Clothing with NFC Scanning App

Business Requirements

Cloth Tracking Capabilities

Theft Reporting Capabilities

Brand Performance Analytics

What was the Problem?

The client wished to create an application that would serve Fashion Brands with online smart trading of clothing in the USA market. Client had identified that there was no open market mobile application that would empower brands and customers to trade, track and monitor their products. Apart from that, there were also no applications or devices that would help product owners to track the theft of their clothes. With these pain points in mind, client came up with a concept of a mobile application that would serve the brands and customers with smart clothing application using NFC tags.

NFC Tags For Product Tracking

Smart Clothing Trading App

Brand Reports And analytical capabilities

And What was the Need?

With the identified pain points and business opportunity in the Fashion Industry, client wanted to create a business model that would incorporate the cognitive intelligence of IoT and serve customers and brands with smart clothing via a mobile application and a web platform. Pertaining to the requirements, client already had basic UI designed for the web and mobile applications. He required an IoT Development company to refine the designs and create an intuitive mobile application and web platform for end-users and brands & administrators respectively.

What Zealous Proposed?

Mobile app development and Website UI

We consulted client in refining the UX navigation and deliver UI development services of web for brands and administrator and mobile application development services for end-users.

NFC Tags information architecture

We consulted clients with creating the entire navigation and information architecture for the NFC tags scanning and making it a business model for product procurement.

Analytics integration

After extensive research, defining the user-persona and analyzing the fashion market, we collaborated with client to create a detailed list of system metrics for analytics and reporting.

The Journey

Client Briefing

Various meetings were conducted with client by a team of Business Analysts to understand the client requirements.
Document of Scope

After many brainstorming sessions between client and technology consultants, a detailed scope document was prepared.
Mobile App development

With the use of agile methodology, an IoT based Mobile application was developed for the client.
Web UI

Once the Mobile App was developed, we collaborated with client for NFC flow and website UI.
System Testing

Various regression, integration and UAT testing activities were conducted on Mobile App and website.

A Tough Fight

Convenience is the mother of Technology Innovation

The biggest challenge for us was the understanding of the analytical requirements of the clients, verifying their feasibility and implementing them seamlessly in the application for the brands. Apart from that, the digitalization of products with NFC was a challenge as there were numerous records to be verified of past customers. There were also difficulties in enabling the weekly wardrobe feature using customized calendar requirements.

Since the concept was fairly new and unexplored, a cross-functional team of business analysts, technology consultants and developers were deployed to carry out detailed UX research and technical feasibility tests for the client pertaining to the above mentioned challenges.