Quick Start
If you've made it here, it's because you understand the power of digital transformation in your industry. Would you like to discover how Cloud Studio, through its Gear platform, is leading the digital transformation in the IoT space and maximizing the value of data?
Welcome! We'll explain everything you need to know right here.
About the Gear Platform
At Cloud Studio, our top priority is to catalyze innovation within the IoT space, through a perspective focused on the application layer within the complex IoT ecosystem. We recognize that true digital transformation emerges when collected data is transformed into concrete, high-value actions. Therefore, our primary mission is to provide a comprehensive, specialized solution dedicated to maximizing the value of this data, from ingestion and processing to visualization and decision-making.
Our platform takes responsibility for orchestrating data processing from the very moment it is published to the cloud or to the server selected by our clients, ensuring reliability and security at every stage.
At Cloud Studio, we combine the physical and digital worlds using our IoT platform to create scalable use cases that address real-life verticals, offering end-to-end solutions that are innovative and flexible. We are committed to improving business processes, optimizing resource usage, and generating a positive environmental impact.
Key Features of Gear
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The Gear platform offers a robust set of features designed to power your IoT strategy:
- Advanced Data Ingestion: With our powerful MQTT Gateway and flexible parsers, we ensure efficient reception and decoding of data from any device, regardless of its protocol or format.
- Intuitive Visualization (Web SCADA): Transform complex data into actionable information with our customizable dashboards and SCADA-type views, tailored to the needs of each role.
- Comprehensive Notification System: Stay informed with our multi-channel notification system (email, SMS, voice, WhatsApp), fully customizable and adaptable to your workflows.
- Multi-Tenant Management: Manage multiple clients and facilities from a single instance, with granular permission control and client-level customization.
- Device Simulation (Confiana): Accelerate development and testing with our Confiana simulator, which allows you to emulate the behavior of thousands of virtual devices and validate data ingestion in a controlled environment.
- Low-Code Design: Empower your teams to create and customize solutions with minimal programming, fostering multidisciplinary collaboration.
- Robust Security: We implement security best practices, including SSL encryption, granular authentication, Single Sign-On, and continuous vulnerability scanning.
Cutting-Edge Architecture
The platform uses open, proven technologies designed for efficiency, scalability, and adaptability. Our architecture is based on modern principles:
- Modular Monolith Backend: A robust .NET backend, organized into decoupled business modules (such as
CloudStudio.CoreandCloudStudio.Core.Gear), offering the deployment simplicity of a monolith with the flexibility of a distributed architecture. - Library-Based Micro-Frontends: The Angular frontend consists of a lightweight "shell" and independently compiled feature libraries (
common-gear,common-cloudstudio), enabling autonomous development and dynamic assembly. - Database per Module (SQL Server): We use SQL Server with a "Database per Module" strategy, isolating business domains to improve maintainability and scalability.
- IoT Communication (MQTT): Data ingestion is performed exclusively through MQTT, managed by our
MQTTGatewayservice and specialized parsers that decode device payloads.
Cloud Studio's architecture is designed to be used on any type of system infrastructure according to client requirements.
There are two deployment modes:
- On-Premise
- Cloud-Hosted (PaaS)
All Cloud Studio installations take into account the following best practices regarding security and development standards:
- VPN: Remote access to the servers hosting the platform is only available through a Virtual Private Network, thus providing greater security.
- Separate Servers: The platform is prepared to be installed on an infrastructure with a load balancer, with separate web and database servers, among others.
- Development Standards: The entire system is developed based on best practices that comply with OWASP standards.
- Vulnerability Scanning: To ensure system security, external vulnerability scans have been performed, all of which have been successfully passed. Cloud Studio holds vulnerability certification against, among the most important: Cross-site scripting, SQL Injection, and Sensitive Data Exposure.
Multi-Tenancy
The platform has been conceived from its inception as a multi-tenant platform. This module is responsible for managing clients, their facilities (branches, buildings, etc.), and the administration of all associated permissions, enabling:
- One operator, multiple clients.
- Multiple facilities per client (branches, buildings, complexes, factories, etc.)
- Multiple areas or environments per site.
- Unified support and maintenance.
- Access permissions for each operator user and each tenant.
- Individual billing interfaces for each tenant.
- Interfaces for tenant account management from external systems (onboarding new tenants, suspension in case of debts, etc.)
Web SCADA
We believe that a clear view of your processes is essential for better decision-making. That is why we have created a platform to help you break down the barriers between SCADA systems and create your own process representation, one that adapts to your needs and the way you think about your business.
With our system, you can easily create different views of the same information depending on the role and focus of the person viewing it. The result? Information that is easier to understand and more likely to lead to insights that improve your business.
Check out all these SCADA-type views in our Live Demo. Access it here.
Scalability
The platform's fundamental strategy is horizontal scaling:
- At the application server level, through the use of load balancers and multiple identical servers. The platform's code allows transparent horizontal growth, also ensuring that certain processes run on a single server at a time when necessary.
- At the remote caching server level, through the use of Redis in cluster mode. The application server software is natively prepared for this mode.
- At the database server level, through the use of SQL Server replicas, particularly for reporting and data analysis.
Application server, remote cache, and database hosting is done through IIS, in standard configurations available on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, but can be used without changes in any other datacenter or on-premise hosting.
Extensibility
A fully extensible platform, based on a plugin or "layer" system.
- Allows creating new verticals without affecting core functionality.
- Allows customizations in each project without affecting core or vertical functionality.
- Examples include reports, client-specific forms, external interfaces, etc.
- The API allows not only data injection/extraction but also the creation of external apps (the same API used by the platform's own applications).
- Designed for CRM/ERP integration.
Agnostic
The platform is characterized by being independent in terms of both connectivity and hardware, which enables the creation of exceptional success stories by merging diverse technologies. This allows seamless integration of a wide range of devices, including those compatible with LoRaWAN, as well as legacy systems in operation, such as programmable logic controllers (PLCs), to name one example.
Example architecture for an Industry 4.0 solution:
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Instance and Client White Labeling
With our white labeling feature, we provide a customizable platform designed to create a unique user experience that reflects your brand identity. This feature provides the ability to adapt the platform to your specific needs by allowing customization of your logo, color palette, background image, and more.
For businesses that need to provide a customized platform experience for different clients within the same instance, we are proud to offer two levels of customization. The first level allows customization of the entire instance, while the second level provides client-level customization options.
MQTT Broker
Our platform offers an embedded MQTT broker that allows you to easily integrate devices and control them with a simple interface that supports payload decoders and downlinks.
Low Code
The platform stands out for being completely "low code." The platform's low-code capability ensures that solution development and customization are accessible to different user profiles, without requiring deep programming knowledge. This fosters collaboration between multidisciplinary teams, allowing professionals from various fields to actively contribute to the design and configuration of solutions.
Responsive
It is highly responsive, meaning it can be accessed from both the web and a mobile application. Users can access the platform from any device with an internet connection, whether it's a desktop computer, a tablet, or a smartphone. This provides flexibility and convenience to users, allowing them to access the platform and manage data from anywhere at any time.
Supported browsers are: Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.
For mobile application downloads, check this page.
Security and Identities
Security is a priority when developing Internet of Things projects, which is why the platform provides:
- Maximum granularity of user permissions.
- Encryption of all communications using 2048-bit SSL.
- Single sign-on, with third-party identification.
- Secure and open APIs with individual permissions for each application.
- LDAP: Authentication with credentials (username and password, email and password, etc.) specific to each organization.
We've reached the end of the introduction! You're probably wondering, what's next?
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Requirements and best practices
If you are a client, we recommend starting with our platform's fundamental concepts page, here.
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