Overview
ThingsBoard is an IoT platform for data collection, processing, visualization, assets and devices management. It enables device connectivity via industry standard IoT protocols - MQTT, CoAP and HTTP. ThingsBoard combines scalability, fault-tolerance and performance so you will never lose your data.
ThingsBoard Professional Edition is a closed-source advanced version of open-source ThingsBoard IoT platform with several significant value-add features.
ThingsBoard Maker subscription plan includes up to 10 devices and 10 assets, and all TB PE features except White-labeling:
- Advanced RBAC for IoT; Advanced management of user roles and permissions.
- Entity groups; Each entity may be related to multiple Groups.
- Scheduler; Schedule various types of events including report generation, commands to devices and configuration updates with flexible schedule configuration.
- Reporting; Generate great looking reports using dashboards visualization capabilities.
- Export widget data to csv/xls; Widgets data can be exported to CSV and XLS formats.
- Data converters feature; Ability to define custom data converter from device payload to a common ThingsBoard payload format and vice versa using JavaScript syntax.
- Platform Integrations feature. Ability to stream device and asset data from external applications, third-party IoT Platforms and connectivity providers to ThingsBoard.
See https://thingsboard.io/products/thingsboard-pe/ for more details.
Highlights
- Up to 10 devices and 10 assets, unlimited number of messages, dashboards, users and customers.
- Platform Integrations: Stream data from devices connected to existing IoT Platforms to enable real-time interactive dashboards and efficient data processing.
- Entity Groups: Group your assets and devices to simplify administration tasks. Customize set of columns for each group and trigger actions on devices directly from administration interface.
Details
Typical total price
$0.026/hour
Pricing
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
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t2.micro AWS Free Tier Recommended | $0.014 | $0.012 | $0.026 |
t2.small | $0.014 | $0.023 | $0.037 |
t2.medium | $0.014 | $0.046 | $0.06 |
t2.large | $0.014 | $0.093 | $0.107 |
t2.xlarge | $0.014 | $0.186 | $0.20 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.014 | $0.371 | $0.385 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.014 | $0.01 | $0.024 |
t3.small | $0.014 | $0.021 | $0.035 |
t3.medium | $0.014 | $0.042 | $0.056 |
t3.large | $0.014 | $0.083 | $0.097 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
ThingsBoard will not refund money in any case; however, you can cancel your subscription at any time.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Introduced HAProxy Load Balancer as a separate Ubuntu service to improve load balancer stability
Additional details
Usage instructions
ThingsBoard PE Maker AMI come with preinstalled ThingsBoard PE v2.3.1, ThingsBoard Web Report Server v2.3.1, PostgreSQL 9.5, HAProxy 1.7.11 and Oracle Java 1.8.0_191. Use the following steps to setup your AMI instance:
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When logged into AWS Marketplace, select a ThingsBoard PE Maker AMI, create the instance using desired instance type (e.g. t2.micro is default), and launch the instance.
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Once the instance is running, enter http://instance-public-ip-or-dns into your browser. You will then see the ThingsBoard login page, you can use default sysadmin credentials: 'sysadmin@thingsboard.org ' as username and the instance-id as the password. You can also access your instance via SSH using the username 'ubuntu' and your Amazon private key.
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ThingsBoard PE is installed at: /usr/share/thingsboard.
For more details about product usage please visit official ThingsBoard documentation site: https://thingsboard.io/docs/
Resources
Support
Vendor support
We provide best effort technical support for this product. We will do our best to respond to your questions within the next 24 hours in business days. Please contact support@thingsboard.io for any techincal questions. Please review github issues page https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard/issues and thingsboard forum https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/thingsboard before contacting support. For advanced support plans visit https://thingsboard.io/docs/services/support/ ThingsBoard provides the extensive technical documentation for the product setup, features and API:
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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