About Ubidots
Ubidots is a cloud IoT platform for ingesting sensor data and turning it into dashboards, alerts and analysis. It targets industrial uses such as condition monitoring, smart manufacturing, cloud SCADA and vibration analysis, and is positioned around AI agents that can act through chat or WhatsApp.
Data can be sent over MQTT, HTTP, TCP or UDP. Dashboards offer more than twenty widget types and let developers embed their own charts. Other features include data aggregation, an events and rules engine, synthetic variables for real-time calculations, machine learning, long-term retention of data, device types, groups and tags for organizing fleets, and white-label options.
Ubidots is a hosted commercial platform. The vendor describes a single license covering all of a customer's IoT projects, with plan details on its pricing page.
Key features
- Real-time dashboards with many widget types
- Ingestion via MQTT, HTTP, TCP and UDP
- Events and rules engine for alerts
- Synthetic variables for live calculations
- Device types, groups and tags
- Long-term data retention
- White-label platform options
Good fit for
- →Monitoring industrial equipment condition
- →Building customer-facing sensor dashboards
- Tags
- iot-platform
- dashboards
- sensor-data
- rules-engine
- industrial-iot
- mqtt
- white-label
Ubidots: questions and answers
- What is Ubidots used for?
- Ubidots is an IoT data platform for collecting sensor data, building real-time dashboards and automating alerts with rules and AI agents. It is a good fit for monitoring industrial equipment condition and building customer-facing sensor dashboards.
- How much does Ubidots cost?
- Paid plans for Ubidots start at $99 per month, and there is no free plan. A free trial is available.
- Is Ubidots open source?
- No. Ubidots is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Ubidots include DGIoT and Mycodo.
- What are some alternatives to Ubidots?
- Ubidots competes with Blynk, Particle and Losant. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Ubidots alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Ubidots
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DGIoT
Home Automation & IoT
Open Source Industrial IoT Platform | 300+ protocols | 6-min deploy | Modbus OPC UA MQTT |
Apache-2.0vs AWS IoT Core★ 4.8k
Mycodo
Home Automation & IoT
An environmental monitoring and regulation system
GPL-3.0vs Ubidots★ 3.3k
Home Assistant
Home Automation & IoT
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Apache-2.0vs SmartThings★ 91k
Tasmota
Home Automation & IoT
Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using web
GPL-3.0vs Tuya Smart★ 25k
Zigbee2MQTT
Home Automation & IoT
Zigbee 🐝 to MQTT bridge 🌉, get rid of your proprietary Zigbee bridges 🔨
GPL-3.0vs SmartThings★ 16k
ESPHome
Home Automation & IoT
ESPHome is a system to control your ESP32, ESP8266, BK72xx, RP2040 by simple yet powerful
OSSvs Tuya Smart★ 12k
SaaS alternatives to Ubidots
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Blynk
Home Automation & IoT
IoT platform for building mobile and web apps that control connected devices
SaaS
Particle
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IoT platform with devices, cloud and fleet management tools
SaaS
Losant
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Enterprise IoT application platform with workflows and dashboards
SaaS
Arduino Cloud
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Cloud platform for programming, monitoring and controlling Arduino-based IoT devices
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Adafruit IO
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Cloud service for collecting and visualizing data from IoT devices
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ThingWorx
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Industrial IoT platform from PTC for building connected applications
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