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General about the IoT Platform

What is the IoT Platform?

The thingtia.cloud is an Open Source sensor and actuator platform that collects, monitors, analyses and broadcasts the information. The platform is designed with a focus on performance, allowing the processing of millions of messages with a very fast response time.
Among its most important features, we could highlight:

  • Centralized catalogue of all the connected sensors and actuators, based in a non-SQL database, in order to obtain a more flexible repository of its information.
  • Universal viewer, customizable and extensible, which can be used as a start point for specific business visualizers.
  • Front-end for messaging, based in a HTTP API Rest, operating through a messaging and subscription engine, which resides in a in-memory database aimed to accomplish high performance rates.
  • A basic statistics module that records and displays basic platform performance.
  • An administration console for configuring the system and manage the catalogue.
  • An extensible component architecture, making possible to enlarge the platform functionality without modifying the system core and allowing to scale it horizontally.

What makes it unique?

  • An Open Source platform under a business-friendly license
  • All data structures are user-defined and easily tailored for any business specifics
  • Offers established interfaces for data processing and analytics systems
  • Horizontally scalable – can handle thousands of devices
  • Both community and commercial support available
  • Already implemented in several major cities around the world.

What license is used?

The Iot Platform is based on sentilo that is licensed under LGPL3 or EUPL1.1 licenses.

What are the future plans for the IoT Platform

We are constantly working on new functional, performance, and security improvements for the IoT Platform. You are welcome to browse the community forum to learn about tickets planned for future releases and stories filed for the roadmap

General terms of use of thingtia.cloud

thingtia.cloud and thingtia solutions, SL do not guarantee or assume any responsibility or liability that the services will always function without disruptions, delay or errors. thingtia.cloud and thingtia solutions, SL disclaim any warranty that the services will be error free or uninterrupted or that all errors will be corrected. The services are provided on an “as is” or “as available” basis, without any warranties of any kind. You agree that use of the services is entirely at your own risk.

General about thingtia

What is thingtia?

thingtia, short for thingtia solutions S.L., is a spin-off company of opentrends S.L., the crafter of sentilo©. It is a service aimed company created in early 2017 which offers an IoT Platform based on sentilo© software as a cloud instance, complemented with additional services such as training and support. Its employees are future oriented and business minded people, who are always looking for new opportunities.

Visit thingtia.cloud for more information.

What can thingtia do for you?

thingtia provides services around Sentilo such as:

  • Saas Plans
  • Training Plans
  • Support Plans
  • Certified Partners network (jump to the request form)

How do I start using thingtia.cloud?

Simple and quick. To get started with thingtia.cloud, access the Pricing page and choose an option.

Where can I ask a question that is not in this FAQ?

You can access our contact form and ask what you want

Data collection

How can I collect data from my devices for analytics?

The IoT Platform provides a publish/subscribe mechanism allowing external modules to subscribe to their desired topics. Once the data is received by the server, it is immediately transferred to the target system. You can easily develop a plugin that will enable integration with your proprietary analytics system.

What can be the structure of the data that is collected using the IoT Platform?

All data structures are user-defined. You can use basic types(number, boolean, text) or define your own proprietary JSON structure.

Connections and protocols

What are the transport protocols supported by the IoT Platform?

The IoT Platform architecture provides the ability to quickly plug in different custom transport implementations. Currently, it provides an API-Rest and can use HTTP or HTTPs as application protocols. Further protocols will be supported in next releases.

Is the data transfer secure in the IoT platform?

Yes, if you use HTTPs protocol for your communications.

The IoT platform

How can I install the IoT Platform server?

You can intall the IoT Platform on your own server. Instructions can be accessed here.

Which hardware platforms are supported by the IoT Platform?

Linux distributions validated: Ubuntu, CentOS and RedHat

How scalable is the IoT Platform?

The IoT platform is designed to be horizontally scalable by distributing its core modules and agents in different servers. The High Availability should be targeted in next releases.

Where does the IoT Platform store data?

The catalog is stored in a document oriented database: MongoDB

The real-time data is stored in a in-memory database: Redis

The IoT Platform provides several connectors available for storing data in external repositories: Relational databases, Indexers (Elasticsearch) or Time series databases(OpenTSDB).

What third-party components are used in the Iot Platform?

The IoT platform takes advantage of several of Open Source products and libraries, uses the following core major third-party components are HTTPCore, Tomcat, Redis and Mongo DB.

What are the hardware requirements?

We cannot give an answer without having the number of sensors, actuators connected, the frequencies, the uses, etc.
The point we can remark is the big amount of ram needed in any case.

Messaging

Can I exchange messages between devices based on a different hardware and provided by several manufacturers?

Absolutely. Since messages are based on user-defined data schemas which are hardware-agnostic, the messages can be shared across different devices regardless of the hardware platform. The only requirement is that the sensor or an intermediate gateway has the capability of publish data using the HTTP protocol.

How can I push data to my devices?

Yes, you can send orders to your devices but they should have the capability of handling HTTP requests from the platform. Anyway, if this is not possible, the devices can also request for their orders through a pull HTTP request.

What is the structure of the data that you can push?

The general structure for the messages is defined by the IoT Platform, but the contents of the orders or data are user-defined.

Does the IoT persist configuration and notification data?

The catalog configuration and the subscriptions are persisted for ever without any expiration date. The volatile data, like orders, data or alarms are stored in-memory and expires according with the policy according with your service plan. If you need to collect the data for any external treatment or persitency, you may use a connector for this purpose.

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