CBH CDF
Owned by approximately 4,200 West Australian grain growers, the CBH Group is Australia’s largest co-operative. Conducting the operations of grain storage, handling, transport, marketing and processing, the CBH Group is a leader in the Australian grain industry.
Developed with growers and transporters in mind, we built the original CDF App back in 2017, a pilot product, tasked with testing the provision of truck load details in real time to improve decision making at harvest.
The first release saw us deliver native iOS and Android apps that integrate with Saturn (CBH’s Site/Delivery Management System). We also created a custom code generation tool to translate the Swagger API specification for use in J2ObjC, enabling us to share the client code between platforms.
The apps leveraged Firebase Cloud Messaging to receive notifications and synchronise with the current state of the grain delivery. We also leveraged AWS Cognito authentication to manage user access and permissions as well as specific geofence data to assist with service analytics and deliver location based convenience features to truck drivers using the app. Furthermore, we developed a bespoke way to handle patchy network connectivity where access to networks would drop in and out in the middle of a form being submitted.
Following the successful pilot of 2017, CBH released CDF (2) to their full network in 2018. This major release was so well received that the business brought us back this year to build out a range of new features in time for the 2019 harvest. This recent CDF (3) focused on improving the grower experience, delivering an improved form submission process, an updated notification centre, a new email address book, improved load history details and search function. The on-site delivery process was also improved with functionality to automatically connect to CBH site WiFi and automatic progression of deliveries based on bluetooth beacon detections.
We look forward to what’s in store for the 2020 harvest.