The Enterprise Operating System for Modern Residential & Commercial Communities
Unified Living. Seamless Operations. Smarter Communities.
Client
Habita Operations Inc.
Engagement
technology company
Duration
5 months
Team
6 people
Habita replaces legacy paper ledgers, fragmented messaging groups, and manual gate logs with a unified cross-platform hub that automates visitor security control, centralizes digital dues processing, streamlines governance meetings, and delivers transparent financial accounting across every property unit.
Habita proves Krenno Labs' capability to architect, build, and deploy high-reliability, cross-platform PropTech platforms that handle real-time security access control, automated payment processing, and multi-tenant governance. The project demonstrates our mastery of complex state orchestration, offline-first security passes, automated CI/CD deployment pipelines, and enterprise backend integrations delivered seamlessly across desktop and mobile form factors.
Built for
Managing modern residential complexes and gated communities involves navigating severe operational friction: vulnerable paper guest logs, delayed maintenance collection cycles, opaque financial accounting, and uncoordinated communication between management committees and residents. Legacy property management systems are often fragmented, desktop-bound, or lack real-time access controls and payment integrations.
Krenno Labs engineered Habita around a strict BLoC (Business Logic Component) pattern in Flutter, paired with an API-driven Azure microservices backend. We focused on building a resilient mobile-first experience equipped with dynamic access pass generation, integrated Razorpay financial processing, silent background token refresh protocols, and instant push notification triggers to keep residents and administrators synchronized without friction.
Habita consolidates all residential touchpoints into a unified mobile workspace. Residents can authorize pre-approved guests with instant QR passes, pay monthly dues via integrated digital gateways, view real-time account ledgers with downloadable PDF invoices, sign official digital notices, and track grievance resolution with live status updates—all within a fluid, highly responsive user interface.
From onboarding to daily gate authorization, Habita delivers an effortless user experience. Residents enter through biometric or phone-based authentication, immediately viewing an adaptive dashboard showcasing active dues, pending visitor approvals, upcoming community meetings, and urgent circulars. Navigation relies on custom animated app bars and spring-physics page routing, ensuring complex operations like fund switching or digital signature submission take only a few intuitive taps.
Empowers residents to generate pre-authorized visitor passes, temporary vendor entry codes, and digital item exit passes embedded with dynamic QR codes for instant gate verification.
Facilitates seamless online settlement of monthly maintenance dues, utility charges, and special project funds using Razorpay integration, complete with automated digital receipt generation.
Delivers official association notices directly to residents with support for digital document signing, response tracking, and real-time acknowledgment statistics.
Allows residents to log categorized maintenance issues with photo attachments, track real-time resolution status from assignment to completion, and provide final sign-off.
Enables interactive community decision-making with real-time voting on association proposals, instant tally calculation, and automated meeting schedule coordination.
Also included
Provides detailed visibility into community bank accounts, collection stats, fund allocations, expense breakdowns, and downloadable transaction statements.
Allows homeowners owning multiple properties across different associations or blocks to seamlessly switch between units within a single app session.
Maintains an instant-access, tap-to-call operational directory for local emergency services, security desks, facility managers, and verified utility service providers.
Visual placeholders mark where final screens and captures will live. Drop assets at the paths shown on each tile.
Habita is engineered around a decoupled, reactive BLoC state management layer that cleanly isolates presentation logic from underlying microservices and data persistence mechanisms. User interactions on the resident, gatekeeper, or administrator surfaces dispatch strongly-typed events to dedicated feature BLoCs. These BLoCs interface with an API Client repository equipped with custom HTTP interceptors. When a network request returns a 401 Unauthorized status, the interceptor silently pauses pending requests, triggers a refresh token handshake with the Azure auth microservice, updates encrypted storage, and replays the original request transparently. Response models are deserialized into immutable entity states that drive reactive UI updates across multi-device form factors without UI thread locking.
Decision
Complex applications with multiple concurrent data feeds (notifications, visitor arrivals, payment updates) require strict predictability to prevent UI glitches and memory leaks.
Achieved clean code separation, testable business logic, and effortless state replay during multi-screen user navigation.
Decision
Users should never suffer session interruptions while generating access passes at a security gate or making live payment transactions.
Silent authentication token renewal without requesting re-login, providing a smooth user experience while preserving strict backend security.
Decision
Generating visitor passes directly on the device reduces server load and guarantees instant pass availability even in low-bandwidth gate environments.
Immediate QR card creation with custom branding, resident photo overlays, and single-tap sharing via WhatsApp or SMS.
Stack
Habita is engineered using Flutter 3.x and Dart >=3.8 with a pure BLoC state management architecture. The application integrates seamlessly with cloud microservices on Azure App Services, utilizing Firebase Cloud Messaging for real-time alerts, Razorpay SDK for automated financial transactions, and native platform channels for hardware-accelerated image rendering and document storage.
Collaborated with property managers, security officers, and resident association leaders to map end-to-end community workflows, access points, and financial governance requirements.
Designed an adaptive design system built on high-contrast visual hierarchies, custom dynamic tab bars, spring physics animation layouts, and accessibility-first forms.
Implemented feature modules in parallel sprints using Flutter BLoC, configuring automated Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and automated APK/AAB build generation.
Executed widget tests, unit tests for BLoC state transitions, offline storage validation, and API integration testing against simulated high-traffic payment and notification workloads.
Deployed to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, supported by automated release tagging and cloud notification token registration pipelines.
Problem
Security gate check-ins require under-two-second processing. Delays caused by weak mobile signals or manual entry led to vehicle queue backups and security breaches.
Approach
Engineered a pre-authorization engine that generates offline-ready dynamic QR pass graphics client-side, embedding resident verification, vehicle metadata, and cryptographic tokens directly into the pass.
Outcome
Reduced gate entry verification time to under 1.8 seconds per visitor, eliminating queue bottlenecks and establishing a tamper-proof entry audit log.
Problem
Residential associations maintain separate accounts for general maintenance, sinking funds, and special construction projects, complicating digital payment reconciliation.
Approach
Integrated Razorpay with dynamic fund tagging, enabling multi-account key retrieval, itemized breakdown views, and automated digital ledger updates upon transaction confirmation.
Outcome
Achieved 100% automated payment accounting transparency with instant downloadable PDF tax receipts for residents.
Problem
Residents open the app sporadically (e.g., when a visitor arrives at the gate), leading to expired JWT access tokens and failed API requests.
Approach
Built a non-blocking token refresh interceptor directly inside the ApiClient layer that transparently captures 401 status codes, fetches new token pairs, and re-executes the failed call seamlessly.
Outcome
Eliminated unexpected authentication dropouts, ensuring instant app responsiveness whenever opened.
Habita transformed community operations into a modern, transparent, and secure digital environment, driving exceptional resident adoption and operational efficiency.
What's next
Extend the platform with machine learning models that analyze historical complaint data to forecast equipment failures and optimize maintenance schedules.
Connect the visitor access engine directly with IoT hardware for automatic boom barrier opening upon LPR camera detection of pre-authorized vehicles.
Introduce an integrated micro-marketplace allowing residents to discover, book, and pay for verified local service providers directly within the community workspace.
Have something in mind?
Tell us about your product and we'll help you ship something
worth putting on this page.