ThingsBoard
ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. The platform enables device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols - MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and supports both cloud and on-premises deployments.
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About ThingsBoard
ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. The platform enables device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols - MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and supports both cloud and on-premises deployments.
ThingsBoard combines scalability, fault-tolerance and performance so you will never lose your data. With flexible dashboards, a powerful rule engine and comprehensive integration capabilities, ThingsBoard is the ideal solution for your IoT projects.
WZ-IT & ThingsBoard
We install, host and operate ThingsBoard for your company - either on our secure, GDPR-compliant infrastructure in Germany or other locations, as well as on-premise in your own environment.
With 24/7 monitoring, enterprise support, automatic backups and professional maintenance, we ensure maximum availability and reliable operation of your ThingsBoard instance.
Device & Asset Management
Provision, monitor and control your IoT entities securely using rich server-side APIs. Define relations between devices, assets, customers or any other entities.
Real-Time Dashboards
Visualize your data with over 600 customizable widgets and flexible dashboards. Create custom visualizations and share dashboards with your customers.
IoT Rule Engine
Process incoming device data with flexible rule chains based on entity attributes or message content. Define your application logic with the drag-and-drop designer.
Multi-Tenancy
Supports multi-tenant installations out-of-the-box. Single tenant may have multiple tenant administrators and millions of devices and customers.
SCADA System
Monitor and control your industrial processes in real time with SCADA. Use SCADA symbols on dashboards for full flexibility in designing and monitoring workflows.
Security & Encryption
Supports transport encryption for both MQTT and HTTP(s) protocols. Provides device authentication and device credentials management for secure IoT communication.
ThingsBoard in Action
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Enterprise Managed Hosting
Enterprise Grade
Open source enterprise-ready for productive workloads - we run your applications with highest security standards and enterprise support
Why Enterprise Managed Hosting?
Open source software for business-critical processes requires professional maintenance, continuous updates, and enterprise-grade support. With our ThingsBoard Enterprise Managed Hosting, you get the necessary infrastructure and support to reliably operate open source in production environments. Backups, SLAs, telephone support, and personal contact - so you can focus on your core business.
Installation on Your Infrastructure
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We also offer customized ThingsBoard Enterprise solutions for your specific requirements. Contact us for an individual quote.
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ThingsBoard Managed Hosting & IoT Integration
Production-ready ThingsBoard hosting with professional support. merkaio accompanies you as a partner throughout your entire IoT project.
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Themen
Basics
ThingsBoard is an open-source IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, and device management. It supports industry-standard protocols like MQTT, CoAP and HTTP and offers both cloud and on-premises deployments.
ThingsBoard is used for Smart Energy, Environment Monitoring, Industrial IoT (SCADA), Smart Metering, Smart Farming, Fleet Tracking and many other IoT applications.
ThingsBoard supports MQTT, CoAP and HTTP for device connectivity. Additionally, there is support for LwM2M and other protocols through extensions.
The Rule Engine enables processing of incoming device data with flexible rule chains. You can transform data, trigger alarms, forward data and define complex logic with a visual drag-and-drop designer.
Features & Functions
ThingsBoard provides over 600 customizable widgets for data visualization: line charts, bar charts, maps, digital and analog gauges, tables and much more. You can also create custom widgets with the built-in editor.
ThingsBoard supports multi-tenancy natively. Each tenant can have multiple administrators and manage millions of devices and customers. Users only see their own data.
ThingsBoard provides SCADA functionality (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) for real-time industrial process monitoring and control. With SCADA symbols, you can create complete workflows on dashboards.
ThingsBoard integrates with AWS IoT, Azure IoT Hub, IBM Watson, OPC-UA, Kafka, RabbitMQ, REST APIs and many other systems. There is also a REST API and WebSocket API for custom integrations.
Yes, ThingsBoard is horizontally scalable. In microservices mode, you can add more servers to linearly increase the number of supported requests and devices - without downtime.
Devices & Data
ThingsBoard provides comprehensive APIs for registering and managing devices. You can monitor client-side attributes, provision server-side attributes and send RPC commands between server and devices.
ThingsBoard can collect and store telemetry data (time series), attributes (key-value pairs) and events from any sensors, connected devices or applications.
Dashboards are customizable visualizations with widgets. You can create multiple dashboards, share them with customers, define access control and add interactive features with the toolbar API.
Yes, ThingsBoard offers comprehensive alarm management. You can create alarms based on telemetry data, attribute changes or device inactivity and send them via email, SMS, Slack or custom integrations.
Infrastructure & Deployment
ThingsBoard supports both cloud and on-premises deployments. You can run it on your own servers, in private data centers or in public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner).
ThingsBoard supports PostgreSQL, Cassandra and TimescaleDB for data storage. You can choose where to store main entities and where to store telemetry data (SQL, NoSQL or Hybrid).
ThingsBoard supports both monolithic deployments (for smaller environments) and microservices architecture for high availability and horizontal scalability.
For small installations: 2 CPU cores, 4GB RAM. For medium installations: 4 CPU cores, 8GB RAM. Production environments with many devices require more resources and ideally a cluster configuration.
Security & Compliance
ThingsBoard is open-source and can be operated in a GDPR-compliant manner. At WZ-IT, we host ThingsBoard on GDPR-compliant servers in Germany with appropriate technical and organizational measures.
ThingsBoard supports various authentication methods: Username/Password, OAuth2 (Google, GitHub, etc.), LDAP/AD, SAML 2.0 and Two-Factor Authentication (2FA).
Yes, ThingsBoard supports transport encryption for MQTT and HTTP(s). You can configure TLS/SSL certificates and encrypt all communication between devices and server.
ThingsBoard provides device authentication, credential management, transport encryption, role-based access control (RBAC) and audit logging to protect your IoT data.
WZ-IT Services
We offer professional ThingsBoard installation, managed hosting on GDPR-compliant servers in Germany, enterprise support, 24/7 monitoring, automatic backups, maintenance and consulting.
We offer various support levels with guaranteed response times, uptime SLAs up to 99.9%, personal contacts and proactive monitoring of your ThingsBoard instance.
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