Introduction to DRIVR
DRIVR is an API-first IoT platform that aims to provide a full-fledged cloud backend for IoT (Internet of Things) and IIoT applications (Industrial Internet of Things) built on a robust and scalable event-driven microservice architecture. The feature set includes the capability to model IoT systems in the cloud and send, collect, store, aggregate and query device data.
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DRIVR features a flexible yet compact data model in order to allow modeling IoT systems in the cloud, e.g. a physical device can be modeled as a Component in DRIVR, a group of related devices can be modeled as a System. Explore the DRIVR data model.
To do so DRIVR offers two complementary APIs:
- a powerful GraphQL API
- a lightweight MQTT API
- a flexible REST API
The GraphQL API is designed for server-client communication, e.g. for frontend application (both mobile and desktop), third-party-integrations or cloud-to-cloud communication.
The MQTT API is designed to enable efficient machine-cloud communication and therfor primarly offers ways to exchange device data over the lightweight MQTT protocol.
The REST API is designed to enable ingest of data sent from a machine or device. It also enables you to push configuration updates or remote control your devices.