Smart Tenant

Project Description:

Choosing where to live is one of the most important decisions any person will make at some point in their life, at least once. What do you look for when choosing a place to live? Location, close by amenities, quality of the building, but most importantly, it’s the community around you. The community that is made up of the same people who chose to live where you live. It is the community that makes you feel at home and who you can always rely on in a crisis. You need to make sure you are connected to that community in the best and most efficient way to get the most out of your home.

This is exactly what our client, Smart Living Properties here in Ottawa, wants to solve. We started by conducting market research to find out what’s most important to renters today to achieve that sense of home. We interviewed 35 people from different walks of life and analyzed their responses to uncover the fine details that matter the most to them. Armed with this information, we designed the user experience of our app, Smart Tenant to exceed expectations.

Our next task was to design an equally engaging user interface which we also had volunteers test out to ensure its ease of use and intuitiveness, and that it meets their expectations.

It was now time to move on to the development stage. Choosing the right technology stack to build the final product is crucial to the success of any application For the frontend we use the most professional and trusted cross-platform technology to date, React Native to ensure it looks just right on both iPhone and Android devices. React Native was developed and maintained by Facebook and is currently the leading technology for building cross-platform applications. For our backend, we used Google’s Firebase services for secure and robust data storage and transmission. All our data is kept here in Canada.

Smart Tenant recreates the sense of community from the ground up. It is centered around every individual tenant to deliver an experience that has never been felt; a never been felt before sense of community. Smart Tenant allows its users to engage with, not only their neighbors but with local businesses, property managers, and landlords.

As for our learning outcomes, this experience has been unparalleled and far exceeded our expectations. We learned and experienced what it takes to design and develop a mobile application from scratch and learned to overcome the typical, and some unique, challenges that come with it. We sharpened our design and development skills significantly and learned to work and cooperate together as a group and in a real-world setting. We feel that the quality of the learning we gained from this experience far exceeds the quality and extent we would have received from an internship or a co-op term.

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