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

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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

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

• ThingsBoard Cloud: The fastest way to start. Click for the North America or Europe region.
• On-premises: Install using the guides for Linux and macOS (Docker) or Windows (Docker).

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

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