The ThingsBoard Edge documentation is hosted on thingsboard.io.
ThingsBoard Edge use-cases
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Autonomous Vehicles
Edge computing makes it possible to collect, process and react to road events with almost no latency. Modern autonomous vehicles produces tons of data - between 5 TB and 20 TB a day. 4G or 5G will not able to provide that network throughput, but with ThingsBoard Edge you are able to filter data. Most of this data should be processed locally, and only subset of this data will be pushed to the cloud.
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Smart Farming
Quickly react to failures of silo aeration systems on a remote site even if connectivity to the Cloud from on-field location is pure at the moment.
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Smart Houses
Bringing the processing and analyzing data closer to the smart house provides the possibility to secure sensitive user information at the Edge. Additionally, it provides a good user experience because of the low latency of smart house solutions - user will get responses from end devices much faster, comparing to connecting Edge devices to the Cloud to make some decisions.
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Security Solutions
It’s necessary to react to security violations and threats within seconds and Edge provides this possibility. You don’t need to care about quality of your connectivity to Cloud - decision will be made by local Edge engine on a remote site in real-time.
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In-hospital Monitoring
To secure data privacy in healthcare devices processing of this data must be done on the Edge. Push to the Cloud only required pieces of readings from medical devices, while storing all other sensitive data on the Edge.
Additional benefit from Edge processing in this use-case - react to critical medical cases as quickly as possible due to real time processing of data from Edge medical devices.
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Predictive Maintenance
Brings processing and storage of Edge device readings closer to the equipment. Analyze tons of data locally and detect changes in the production lines before a failure occurs. Send to the Cloud only average readings from productions lines according to your business needs.
ThingsBoard Edge features
Unlock the key benefits of ThingsBoard Edge:
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Local Deployment and Storage: Store and process data from Edge devices locally when there is no active connection to the Cloud, and push updates to the Cloud once the connection is restored.
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Traffic filtering: Filter data from Edge (local) devices on the ThingsBoard Edge service and push only a subset of the data to the Cloud for further processing or storage.
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Local alarms: React instantly to critical situations on site without requiring connectivity to the Cloud.
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Real-Time and SCADA-like HMI Dashboards: Monitor local events and time-series data. Remotely access critical mechanical components via Human-Machine Interfaces.
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Batch Update: Update thousands of Edge configurations in a single click.
ThingsBoard Edge inherits features from ThingsBoard, delivering the same seamless experience for connecting, managing, and processing data from your devices, ensuring consistency and ease of use across your IoT applications.
It supports the following ThingsBoard features:
- Attributes: Easily assign and manage custom attributes for your entities.
- Telemetry: Access a powerful API for collecting time-series data from your devices.
- Entities and relations: Effortlessly model physical world objects—such as devices and assets—and the relationships between them.
- Data visualization: Create custom dashboards and widgets tailored to your specific needs.
- SCADA interactive capabilities: Enhance your operational efficiency with the remote access to equipment through interacrive SCADA dashboards.
- Rule engine: Effectively manage data processing and automate actions based on incoming telemetry and events.
- RPC: Seamlessly send remote procedure calls (RPC) from both the Edge and Cloud to devices and vice versa.
- Audit log: Monitor user activity with precision.
- API Limits: Manage and limit the number of API requests from a single host.
- White-labeling: Configure a custom menu, logo, color scheme, email server settings and customer email templates.
- Scheduler: Schedule various types of events with flexible schedule configuration.
- Entity Groups: Organize entities into groups, assign roles to user groups and grant permissions over specific entity groups.
Getting Started
Start to collect and visualize your IoT Edge data in minutes by following this guide.
FAQ
Check the FAQ section for answers to common questions about ThingsBoard Edge and its features.
Support
To get support, please visit our GitHub issues page
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to build Edge, run the tests and submit changes.
📄 License
Starting with version 4.4, ThingsBoard Edge is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 (BUSL), a source-available license. You can read, build, modify, fork, and redistribute the code, and use it freely for development and testing. Production use is free only for an Edge registered to a licensed ThingsBoard server: the Edge itself has no device limit, its Devices count as Devices of that server, and the number of Edges and Devices follows that server’s license key. Other production use, or removal of ThingsBoard branding where the server’s license does not allow it, requires a commercial license. See the Additional Use Grant in the LICENSE for the exact terms. Each release converts to Apache 2.0 four years after it ships.
Versions released before 4.4 remain under the Apache 2.0 License.
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