Seeed Studio and ThingsBoard have formed a partnership to make IoT solutions more accessible. By combining powerful hardware with intuitive software, the partners help industries such as smart farming, automation, and industrial networking simplify implementation processes. This collaboration aims to provide businesses with stability and innovative solutions, facilitating ease of IoT integration.
What Is the Seeed Studio and ThingsBoard Partnership About?
Recognized in the industry for its innovations in the IoT field, Seeed Technology provides hardware for various needs. The company focuses on researching and producing sensors, network connectivity devices, devices for edge computing, ODM, and solutions for harsh environments.
At ThingsBoard, we make IoT technology accessible, scalable, and flexible for organizations of all sizes. We provide a complete open-source IoT platform that enables easy device connectivity, data collection, processing, visualization, and management.
Together, we aim to offer a better user experience and create smarter IoT solutions by simplifying the implementation of the most challenging IoT projects.
The Benefits
The collaboration between Seeed Studio and ThingsBoard benefits both the companies and their customers. The companies get recognition and customer trust, and the customers get reliable solutions and clear information on how to use them.
By expanding access to options, customers can tailor their workflow to meet their business needs and reduce the time to deploy an IoT project. The integration tutorials and typical use cases clarify the technical side of the deployment and help create monitoring, analysis, and control systems.
Whether the customer is a business owner, IoT integrator, or solution provider, the partnership between Seeed Studio and ThingsBoard ensures seamless hardware-software interoperability, simplifying IoT deployments across industries.
Partnership Focus: A Use-Case Example
The partnership is currently focused on hardware-software applications in areas such as data acquisition, process monitoring, automation, intelligent manufacturing, and industrial communications and networking. Combining an adaptable edge IoT gateway with ThingsBoard Edge, we are able to build a robust and cost-efficient IoT solution.
To understand the power of this collaboration, let’s explore a specific use-case where Seeed Studio’s hardware and ThingsBoard’s platform are making a real difference. A clear example is remote environmental monitoring in smart farming. Farmers often manage large and remote fields. Monitoring environmental conditions and equipment requires constant connectivity, which might be challenging due to the location.
We deploy ThingsBoard Edge and ThingsBoard Gateway on the Seeed Studio reComputer R1100 as a gateway. The data collected from various sensors across the fields is aggregated on the reComputer R1100, and ThingsBoard Edge processes the collected data and displays the results on the real-time dashboards. The Edge Rule Chain applies local rules to trigger actions and alerts, and the workflow continues without relying on a constant connection to the cloud. If the cloud connection is temporarily unavailable, Edge securely stores all data and events locally. When connectivity to the ThingsBoard Сloud is restored, Edge synchronizes data for centralized storage.
This setup brings data analysis and management directly to the source, enabling critical decision-making processes locally. The system’s flexibility allows for seamless integration with existing configurations, ensuring a smooth and uninterrupted flow of data.
The Conclusion
Just as a professional artist blends colors to create something new, the Seeed Studio and ThingsBoard partnership unites the expertise to simplify and enhance IoT implementations. By combining powerful hardware with a flexible, open-source platform, we are empowering businesses to leverage IoT in smarter, more efficient ways.
