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Roadmap

What comes first

The order we plan to build in. Phases may change as we learn from the first customers; this page changes with them.

  1. Phase 0in progress

    Design

    • The platform specification
    • This website, with the migration guide, benchmarks and blog
    • Our open-source commitment
    • The Polythings brand
  2. Phase 1planned

    Foundation

    • Workspaces, environments and API keys
    • Device identity, provisioning and registry
    • The certificate authority: issue, renew and revoke device certificates
    • MQTT and HTTP connectivity, ingestion into timelake
    • Data API: latest values, ranges and SQL
    • Console, CLI, TypeScript and Python SDKs
    • Virtual devices, so you can try it with no hardware
  3. Phase 2planned

    Assets, metrics and alarms

    • Assets, asset models and bindings
    • The metric catalog
    • Alarms with lifecycle and notifications
    • Connectors for Particle and similar device clouds
    • Device and asset models in DTDL, W3C WoT, OPC UA and the Asset Administration Shell
  4. Phase 3planned

    Device management and OTA

    • Twins, commands and configuration
    • The open-source device agent and embedded SDK
    • Over-the-air updates with rollouts and health gates
    • Cellular connectivity with Teal and other providers
    • Software bills of materials and security advisories with every release
  5. Phase 4planned

    Migration

    • Device endpoints compatible with Azure IoT Hub and AWS IoT Core
    • Moving devices off Particle and similar device clouds
    • Migration from ThingsBoard, Thinger.io, Mender and Eclipse projects
    • Tools for each step of the in-house migration guide
    • Bridge mode, to run both platforms side by side
    • Importers for registries, models, rules and history
  6. Phase 5planned

    Analytics and jobs

    • Serverless jobs in SQL, then Python
    • Dashboards
    • An embeddable portal for your own customers
  7. Phase 6planned

    AI and predictive maintenance

    • MCP server
    • Questions in plain language
    • Anomaly rules and alarm triage
    • Health scores and remaining useful life
    • Models at the edge
  8. Phase 7planned

    Enterprise

    • SSO and SCIM
    • Dedicated and bring-your-own-cloud deployment
    • Security certifications