Platform
The ClearBlade IoT Platform is a development and runtime engine for the Enterprise Internet of Things.
Purpose
The ClearBlade IoT Platform operates as:
- IoT Application Stack
- Development Environment
- Edge Orchestration Platform
IoT Application Stack
Operates as full stack, middleware or backend to an IoT Application with its six core modules:
| Module | Features |
|---|---|
| Code Engine | JavaScript Code Engine designed for highly parallelized microservices |
| Collections | A generic API for interacting with Data Stores, such as ClearBlade Cloud, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL |
| Portals | A full customizable user dashboard for interacting with your IoT Application |
| Deployment | Highly customizable configuration for pushing microservices, data, sync behavior, and portals to groups of Edges |
| Messaging | Scaleable, lightweight MQTT Broker for interacting with IoT Devices |
| Adapters | Powerful model for deploying software and hardware adapters to many new or existing Edges |
Integration of APIs/Brokers with Platform/Edge
Development Environment
Deploying an IoT solution once is simple, but a production solution will require many development iterations, new features, and security updates. The ClearBlade IoT Platform also operates as a development environment by allowing developers to modify microservices, collections, portals, and other assets from within the centralized platform, and the changes are synced across all Edges. This creates a simple, centralized development experience that can seamlessly sync across many edges running on different machines in many geospatially distant networks.
Edge Orchestration
The Edge Orchestration feature allows a single platform to
- Administrate deployment to configure which microservices, collections, portals, and other assets are deployed to Edges and/or synced
- Start, stop, pause, deploy, undeploy Adapters to groups of Edges
- Monitor real-time system resource usage of Edges to evaluate appropriate hardware needs
Multi-Tenanted Model
Many developers can use a single ClearBlade IoT Platform at once. Each developer can have many IoT Applications running simultaneously, and systems can be shared between developers. Each IoT Application is called a System, which includes the six modules from above, and runs completely isolated from every other system on the platform.
Scaling up a Platform
A Platform is comprised of cluster nodes. Additional nodes provide additional CPU and Memory capacity to support devices:
| Number of Devices | Cluster Nodes Required | Storage (GB) Required per Month |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | 1 | 1.5 |
| 10,000 | 1 | 15 |
| 25,000 | 2 | 37 |
| 100,000 | 6 | 146 |
| 250,000 | 14 | 364 |
| 500,000 | 28 | 728 |
| 1,000,000 | 56 | 1,456 |
| 10,000,000 | 556 | 14,551 |
To customize for your solution, see our IoT Specs and Device Load Calculations