The Thingsboard IoT Platform (Cloud & premises)

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By 2050 up to 80% of the world’s population will be living in macro-cities,  this raises a lot of new technological challenges that improve the  management of resources, infrastructure, and wastes. The aggregation of  all these technological solutions is called the Smart City, it includes a  bunch of digitization projects for public lighting, parking, air quality, watering, transport, and much more.

IoT plays a crucial role in the development of these cities, allowing simple access to every data source and providing:  

• Efficient and scalable communication and data management
• Edge-to-edge secured infrastructure
• Flexibility to integrate third-party services
• Compatibility with Low-Power communication technologies

Over the last 30 years, buildings have acquired great technological advances that simplify their maintenance and improve people’s comfort. Traditionally, ad-hoc wiring and  centralized systems have been used for each facility, IoT is  revolutionizing this environment, providing a common infrastructure for every solutions and additional services thanks to the interoperability of systems.

Thingsboard offers essential functionalities for a successful IoT deployment:

• Efficient and scalable communication and data management
• Edge-to-edge secured infrastructure
• Hardware agnostic, allows to integrate devices from every manufacturer
• Allows integration with voice services such as Alexa or Google Assistant
• Permission management for each user
• White label user interface

There is a multitude of applicable use cases, especially in large structures such as hotels, campuses, offices, and neighborhood communities such  as: Air Conditioning, access or occupational control, Irrigation systems and  much more.

The integration of building infrastructures can be done by means of IoT and old standard connectors. 

IoT provides multiple benefits for asset management projects,  providing real-time information that can be used to plan responses to  future events such as purchases optimization, asset tracking to improve  productivity in the base of current asset status, as well as ensure the  security and safety of the asset.

This technology is providing a lot of opportunities to create  new products and services that continue to increase the advantages of  asset management. From Thingsboard we are helping hundreds of companies  on this labor by providing them with:

• Consistent and reliable IoT infrastructure with end-to-end encryption capabilities
• Geo-fencing and automation features that allow creating auto manageable solutions
• User management tools
• Simple integration with third parity software
• High scalable data bases system

Industrial IoT is a growing tendency  that proposes connecting all structures, machinery, vehicles and even  operators to a server where data is processed as a whole. This produces  multiple benefits such as management decision support, remote monitoring  of equipment, development of predictive maintenance systems, and  digital twins.

The role of IoT in these solutions is always to provide an  efficient and secure basis for the connection and management of  machinery in real-time, the key functions in which Thingsboard offers  solid and reliable support for this technology are:

• Compatibility with industrial buses
• Local servers and edge computing
• High availability infrastructure/li>  
• Secure access
• Remote management
• Custom logic

Compatible with every industrial protocol (Modbus, OPCUA,  ProfiBUS) and IoT technologies like LoRaWAN, Sigfox, or 4G Thingsboard  allows to collect, store and analyze real-time data, share results of  the analysis with customers and end-users or forward data to third-party  analytics frameworks.

Fleet management is a technology that minimizes the risks associated with vehicle operation, improving efficiency and productivity by monitoring assets to know their location and status, improving maintenance and simplifying supply logistics.

The integration of an advanced IoT platform equipped with  real-time data analysis and hyper-connectivity of systems allows to add  to the usual fleet tracking products elements that monitor the load and  the vehicle environment, providing them with advanced capabilities to improve efficiency, increase the safety of cargo and operators and even develop new strategies and business avenues.

Thingsboard platform allows to create Fleet tracking infrastructures saving time and costs during the development and the deployment of the solution by providing the following features:    

• Simple connection and administration of IoT devices
• Secure and scalable data collection infrastructure
• Real time data processing
• Geo-fencing and alerts over location data
• Automatic data evaluation and alerting (engine failures, low fuel, over-speed)

ThingsBoard IoT platform provides out-of-the-box components and APIs  to dramatically drive down effort required to create smart metering  solutions,  resulting in highly improved time to market, reliability, and  competitiveness of your solutions.  By our estimates, companies may save up to 90% of their product  development time when utilizing the following features and benefits of  ThingsBoard:

• Reliable and fault tolerant data collection for your smart water meters, energy monitors, smart energy meters, etc.;
• Powerful rule engine to process collected data and produce alarms and valuable insights;
• Advanced, customizable data visualization for real-time and historical smart metering monitoring;
• Alarm widgets to instantly notify users and / or operators about any critical events or unusual consumption levels;
• Device management to allow you to organize your endpoints in groups by specific attributes;
• Customizable end-user dashboards (featuring drill-down capabilities) to analyze and share the results of smart metering monitoring;
• Remote control and OTA updates for your smart meters and other devices;
• Customizable mobile applications with minimum coding efforts;

The ThingsBoard IoT platform provides production ready server  infrastructure to connect your smart meter devices, collect, store and  analyze smart metering data, and share results of the analysis with your  customers and end-users.