# ThingsBoard

> ThingsBoard is an IoT platform for device management, data collection, processing, and visualization.

- ThingsBoard supports device connectivity via MQTT, CoAP, HTTP, LwM2M, SNMP, OPC-UA, and Modbus protocols.
- The platform provides a powerful rule engine for real-time data processing, transformation, and automated actions on IoT telemetry.
- ThingsBoard dashboards offer rich interactive widgets for data visualization, alarm management, and device control.
- Multi-tenancy architecture supports isolated customer and tenant hierarchies with role-based access control.
- ThingsBoard is an all-in-one platform: white-labeling, solution templates, reporting, advanced RBAC, and integrations with third-party platforms and cloud services are built in.
- ThingsBoard Cloud (PaaS) is a fully managed cloud offering; ThingsBoard Edge extends the platform to on-premises edge nodes.
- Additional products: IoT Gateway (protocol bridge for industrial devices), Trendz Analytics (AI-driven analytics), Mobile SDK, License Server. The TBMQ MQTT broker is documented separately at https://tbmq.io.

## Key pages

- [ThingsBoard — Documentation home](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/): Top-level entry point for ThingsBoard documentation.
- [Why ThingsBoard?](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/why-thingsboard/): Core design principles, architecture, and platform highlights.
- [Getting Started with ThingsBoard](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/getting-started/): End-to-end setup: install, connect a device, build a dashboard.
- [Connect IoT Devices](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/connect-iot-devices/): Connectivity guide across MQTT, HTTP, CoAP, LwM2M, SNMP, OPC-UA, and Modbus protocols.
- [Digital Twin Model](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/concepts/digital-twin-model/): Devices, assets, customers, entity views, and relations — the platform entity model.
- [Data Processing](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/concepts/data-processing/): Rule engine concepts: nodes, chains, message routing, and transformations.
- [Data Visualization](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/concepts/data-visualization/): Dashboards, widgets, and the visualization model.
- [Multi-tenancy and Hierarchy](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/concepts/multi-tenancy/): Tenant isolation, customer hierarchies, and role-based access.
- [Alarms and Notifications](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/concepts/alarms-and-notifications/): Alarm lifecycle, severity, propagation, and notification delivery.
- [Installation options](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/installation/): Deployment topologies and installation paths for ThingsBoard.
- [REST API reference](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/reference/rest-api/): HTTP API surface for platform automation and integration.
- [Rule Engine reference](https://thingsboard.io/docs/pe/reference/rule-engine/): Catalog of rule engine nodes and chain configuration.
- [ThingsBoard Edge](https://thingsboard.io/docs/edge/pe/): On-premises edge nodes that synchronize with a central ThingsBoard server.
- [ThingsBoard Mobile](https://thingsboard.io/docs/mobile/pe/): Customizable mobile application for end-user IoT solutions.
- [Trendz Analytics](https://thingsboard.io/docs/trendz/): AI-driven analytics built on top of ThingsBoard telemetry.
- [IoT Gateway](https://thingsboard.io/docs/iot-gateway/): Protocol bridge for industrial devices (OPC-UA, Modbus, BACnet, BLE, and more).

## Documentation Sets

- [Documentation catalog](https://thingsboard.io/llms-small.txt): full index of every documentation page — title, description, canonical URL. Fetch a page URL directly to read its body.

## Notes

- This catalog is auto-generated from the same source as https://thingsboard.io/docs/.
- ThingsBoard Cloud (PaaS) docs under /docs/paas/ share their content with the pages listed here, so they are omitted to avoid duplication.
- The pages listed here are the canonical reference for each topic; docs pages at other URLs that repeat the same content are omitted.

## Optional

- [ThingsBoard Blog](https://thingsboard.io/blog/): latest news, feature announcements, and use-case articles
- [ThingsBoard GitHub](https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard): source code, issues, and community discussions
- [ThingsBoard YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/thingsboard): video tutorials, webinars, and product demos
- [ThingsBoard on Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/thingsboard): community Q&A for ThingsBoard development questions