Overview:    Customer is Radioweb(  radioweb.com  )  Radioweb wanted to  develop and market low cost  standalone internet radio player device. Radioweb decided to outsource software development wok. NetConsulate was chosen because of its expertise in the windows Embedded technology.  Project developed windows CE based internet radio device.   

 Background:  over  ten Thousands of  Internet radio stations  and over five thousands of podcast are streaming the contents on-line from all corners of the world. Our customer wanted to develop and sell dedicated,standalone and sleek internet radio device  and offer services based on Internet radio Player device. Another company “odcglobal” based in india was awarded the software development contract from the customer. But Odcglobal were lacking  Windows CE specific skills. So OdcGlobal contacted NetConsulate and requested consulting/development  role in the project. As Windows CE provided customizable Internet explore and rich multimedia support components,  Windows CE was chosen as operating system for internet radio device over other embedded operating systems.

 Challenge: Hardware platform to be used was custom one and did not have suitable drivers available and hardware details was not good documented. Also as it was first kind of product in the market, requirements were often kept on changing based on feedback from the marketing team.

 Solution:  Given target hardware board for the internet radio device and functionality required, Custom windows CE OS image was developed , custom device drivers were added to the Windows CE OS image. As customer wanted branded look and feel for  user interface of internet radio device, Internet explorer was customized to have branded look and feel and Internet explore was used as a shell. Internet radio Device used windows CE components like Internet explorer, Windows media player and other custom application. When Internet radio device starts it opens customers website and shows list of internet radio stations so that user can choose the desired radio stations and listen to it. Other custom applications were developed useful for different target markets and bundled with the operating system image

Benefits: By using netconsulate's technical expertize, Customer  achieved faster  time to market and reduced total cost of develoment. Microsoft Windows Embedded CE technology provided useful components like Internet explorer and Windows Media Player and allowed to customize them so overall development efforts were minimized.

 Conclusion: By leveraging Windows Embedded CE technology and netconsulate's software development services, customer achieved faster time to market and total lower cost of device development.Customer's Internet radio deveice product is deployed at numerous hotels and other premises.