Application Development to Automate Platform Code Download to Set Top Box

Abstract

Intelligent Automation of manual process has become current trend of modern era. Automation can reduce man effort and time effort drastically. Automation is the process of connecting different or dissimilar systems or software in a manner that they behave as self-regulating entities. Usually this is done so that mundane tasks can be done more efficiently and effectively, thus cutting about time. This application is basically developed for ARRIS internal use only with the agenda of upgrading/downgrading multiple Set-top boxes (STB) automatically through a common procedure. The way we get updates for our devices operating systems, STB would also have up-gradation and down-gradation of platform version and other applications on top of it. Up to now it was a typical manual process consuming so much of human efforts for the simple repetitive tasks. Here my project is to develop a third party plugin which is also a standalone executable which can be imported in AutoMOTO (ARRIS internal tool) to automate the whole code download and version verification process. I have targeted STB's of different category based on the supported protocols for the Code Download process. There are two modules which supports DAC based CDL and TFTP based CDL and automated the whole process. Return On Investment (ROI) report indicates the clear achievement of eliminating hundreds of staff days efforts.