Use cases and FAQ.
The use cases in detail, our technology, and every answer.
All questions
01What exactly do you do?
We are an IoT and AI engineering agency. We build the app, the cloud and the data for your connected products and services, and AI agents, under your brand and in your cloud, whether on your own devices or by connecting manufacturers’ devices. Firmware and gateway are available on request.
02Who is it for?
Four profiles above all, each with its own use-case page. Multi-brand fleet operators, service companies (energy, heating, pools, solar, EV charging, installation, maintenance) that run other brands’ devices through their clouds and APIs: multi-brand fleet monitoring. Startups after a funding round, whose V1 has to hold in production: the V1 of a connected product or service. Retailers with a digital strategy who want their own branded app and to keep the customer relationship and the data: the white-label app. Manufacturers whose apps, clouds and product generations pile up in silos: migration and consolidation.
03Why you?
Because we go all the way to production: your V1 in production 4 to 6 weeks after scoping, every delivery reviewed and tested, the code and the data in your cloud, in your name. TOVIQ grew out of twelve years of connected products in production.
04Why a subscription rather than a quote?
A connected product or service keeps evolving after delivery: the slot lets you reorder your requests without renegotiating anything. For a truly closed scope, we offer a fixed-price project, quoted after scoping, from which the scoping fee is deducted.
05How much does it cost?
Everything starts with scoping: 2 weeks, €3,000 excl. VAT. It ends with a firm quote: a fixed monthly price for the subscription (the slot), or an overall price for a fixed-price project. The €3,000 is deducted from a fixed-price project or the first slot month. The slot price depends on your scope: the number of products, brands and apps, the level of operation (with or without on-call) and the pace you want. The scoping report is yours, whether you go ahead or not.
06How long does it take?
Scoping in 2 weeks, then your V1 in production 4 to 6 weeks after scoping ends, in the slot or at a fixed price.
07What is a V1?
A production environment ready to scale, with a first complete feature and the foundation it needs: login, accounts, security.
08Do you take over existing products?
Yes, it’s common. We take over what exists, bring the apps and clouds together, and migrate with no service interruption.
09Who does the work, humans or AI?
Our engineers scope every request, choose the approach, review and approve every delivery. AI speeds up production; it never ships on its own.
10How much engineering time is in a slot?
The slot is sold in deliveries, not days. A request is a delivery sliced to fit in a few days: a connector, an app screen, an alert, an export. Bigger? We slice it with you. You get about one a week on average. One active request at a time, carried by our engineers, augmented by AI, all the way to production, and a monthly check-in to show what was delivered. Several workstreams in parallel? Several slots.
11Where is my data?
In your cloud, in an EU or US region depending on your market. You remain the owner of your data.
12If I stop, what do I keep?
The delivered code, the documentation and the access, already in your cloud. Everything is in your name.
13Does the subscription commit me?
3 months, then month to month. You can pause the slot.
14What is not included?
Cloud costs, licences and third-party services, in your name; hardware, prototypes and certification; firmware and embedded, quoted separately; 24/7 on-call, as an option.
15What if we don’t make the devices?
That’s common. We connect the manufacturers’ APIs and clouds (heat pumps, pool equipment, inverters, EV chargers, thermostats) to your platform, with a single data model, device control and AI agents for your operations and after-sales.
16Why not an off-the-shelf IoT platform?
A platform is rented, per device and per year, forever, and your customers see its brand. Your own stack, deployed in your cloud, often costs less than a few years of that subscription: often a few euros per device per year. And it is yours.