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ThingsBoard Cloud

Choose your data region

Your data stays in the region you choose, for residency and compliance. No credit card required.

Rather run it yourself? Install on your own servers

Build a Smart Building Dashboard

A hands-on series where you build a multi-level building monitoring dashboard — from entities and maps to alarms and customer access.

By completing it, you will learn how to:

  • Create assets, devices, and hierarchical relationships
  • Visualize geolocation data on an OpenStreet Map widget
  • Build multi-state dashboards with drill-down navigation
  • Simulate and display telemetry from multiple device types
  • Configure alarm rules with propagation across entity hierarchies
  • Share the dashboard securely with customers

Over the course of five lessons, you will build a Buildings monitoring dashboard that covers a realistic IoT scenario: two buildings, each containing offices with connected IoT sensors.

Lesson Topic
1 Set up entities, relationships, and add an interactive map with a buildings list
2 Add dashboard states for buildings and offices with drill-down navigation
3 Add device-level states and simulate sensor telemetry
4 Configure alarm rules and add alarm monitoring widgets
5 Share the dashboard with customers scoped to their own data

Before starting, make sure you have a ThingsBoard server up and running:

Familiarity with the basics — devices, dashboards, and widgets — is recommended. If you are new to ThingsBoard, complete the Getting Started guide first.