FiRa Consortium

FiRa Consortium is an international nonprofit industry organization dedicated to driving the widespread adoption of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology through interoperability specifications, certification programs, and ecosystem development.

The engagement covered two complementary tracks: ongoing platform support and maintenance, alongside custom feature development driven by Fira Consortium's specific business needs.

1. Core Support & Maintenance.

Continuous technical support covering Drupal core and contributed module updates, security monitoring and patching, bug fixing, performance optimisation, and minor UI enhancements. As a result, the platform remains stable, secure, and performant with minimal intervention required from internal staff, freeing the team to focus on content and strategy.

2. Whitepaper Management & Gated Downloads.

The team replaced a manual HTML-based publishing workflow with a Drupal-native, editor-friendly whitepaper management system. It includes dedicated content modelling for whitepapers, gated and public access control, built-in lead capture via Webform, secure file delivery, and SEO-safe content migration. Editorial teams can now publish and manage whitepapers entirely through the CMS without touching HTML, and the organisation has seen measurable improvements in both lead generation and content security.

3. Event Notification & Subscription System.

Magnetic Point designed and developed a scalable subscription mechanism allowing visitors to receive notifications about newly published events. The solution includes automated event-triggered notifications, background processing via Drupal Queue API, one-click unsubscribe, and full subscriber lifecycle management. The system was built with performance in mind and supports large subscriber bases without any impact on site responsiveness.

4. Environment Configuration & Deployment Management (Acquia Cloud).

Magnetic Point provided support in configuring and maintaining development workflows on Acquia Cloud, including environment setup (dev/stage/prod), Git-based code repository management, and deployment pipeline configuration. The team ensured consistent environment synchronisation, safe and controlled releases, and proper version control practices.

Key Deliverables

• A reliable, proactive maintenance workflow that keeps our Drupal environment secure, up to date, and performant, eliminating the risk of unpatched vulnerabilities and unexpected downtime.
• The new whitepaper management system significantly reduced editorial effort: content editors can now publish and manage gated resources entirely through Drupal's UI, without any manual HTML editing.
• The event subscription and notification system successfully onboarded a growing subscriber base, delivering automated event notifications reliably without degrading site performance.
• Lead capture improved measurably as a direct result of the structured gated download workflows introduced through the whitepaper system.