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Expert articles on IoT, ThingsBoard, device management and smart infrastructure.
Reading the 2026 ThingsBoard CVE List: One Platform Flaw, Eleven From Dependencies
What the 2026 ThingsBoard CVE list actually contains: CVE-2026-53676 in the platform, the rest in Spring, Netty, Tomcat and pgjdbc.
NIS2 & OT/IIoT: Operating Your IoT Platform Securely and Compliantly (August 2026)
NIS2 applies and the registration deadline has passed: what Section 30 BSIG demands of OT and IIoT, and which building blocks an IoT platform delivers.
AWS Is Trimming Its IoT Portfolio: The 2026 Retirement List and What It Means for Your Platform Strategy
AWS has ended IoT Events and Analytics, Greengrass V1 is next, more services frozen. The full 2026 retirement list and when ThingsBoard is the sturdier path.
AWS IoT Events Is Dead (EOL May 20, 2026): Migrate Detector Models to ThingsBoard
AWS IoT Events ends May 20, 2026. No migration tool. Map detector models and SiteWise alarms onto ThingsBoard 4.3 Alarm Rules 2.0, sovereign in Germany.
EU Data Act & IoT 2026: What Makers of Connected Products Must Do by September
From 12 September 2026, new connected products must make data accessible by design. What the EU Data Act means for IoT makers and data sovereignty.
ThingsBoard CE vs PE 2026: When the Free Edition Is Enough – and Which PE Features You Can Build Yourself
ThingsBoard CE vs PE 2026: feature comparison, cloud costs, and when the free Community Edition is enough – plus which PE features you can rebuild.
ThingsBoard vs. AWS IoT Core 2026: Open Source IoT Platform vs. Amazon Cloud
ThingsBoard vs. AWS IoT Core compared: dashboards, rule engine, multi-tenancy, pay-per-message pricing, vendor lock-in, and GDPR. Which IoT platform fits which use case.
ThingsBoard Hosting 2026: Cloud vs. Self-Hosted vs. Managed – What Fits Your IoT Project?
ThingsBoard Cloud from $49/month with device limits, self-hosting with DevOps overhead, or managed hosting with flat rate? Cost, features, and GDPR compared.
ThingsBoard vs Grafana: The Definitive IoT Platform Comparison
ThingsBoard vs Grafana compared across dashboards, device management, rule engines, LoRaWAN integration, pricing and scaling. Find out which IoT platform fits your project — or why you might need both.