N° 02 / Work — Sentinel

A plant protection platform built for the office and the field — with real-time analytics piped straight into Power BI.

Client
A plant protection software firm
Year
2024
Scope
Plant protection platform — web and mobile
Services
Platforms
Status
In production

Context

Plant protection is run on a thin margin and a tight clock — agronomists in the field, decisions taken in the office, a regulator who wants the records. The client needed one platform that worked the same way on a laptop in the office and a phone in a field, and that produced operational data managers could actually trust to plan from.


Approach

Kola built the platform in Laravel and Livewire — one codebase serving both the web app and the mobile app, so the office and the field run on the same data model and the same business rules. Field activity — treatments, observations, conditions — gets recorded once and ripples through the platform without re-keying.

The analytics layer is wired directly into Power BI, the client's existing reporting tool, so dashboards are live rather than exported. Managers see what's happened in the last hour, not what was extracted yesterday.


Outcome

Field teams record once. Office teams plan from data that's hours fresh. The regulator gets the records they want from the system rather than from a reconstruction. And because the web and mobile apps share a stack, what ships to one ships to the other on the same release.


Stack
  • Laravel
  • Livewire
  • Power BI

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Coordinates
Kola Solutions Limited
Office 1426, 3 Fitzroy Place
1/1 Sauchiehall Street
Finnieston, Glasgow
Scotland G3 7RH
55.8655° N · 4.2809° W

[email protected]
Company no. SC781583