OTA programming is finally here! That amazing technology allows to upload new firmware to our IoT devices “Over the Air” or to be more precise, through the internet, solving a lot of problems when it comes to keeping device firmware up to date, being able to renew SSL certificates, patch bugs or simply upgrade IoT products after they are deployed.

The goal of this plugin is to simplify the integration of applications as well as improve the experience of developers integrating their TTN devices, bringing enhanced functionalities such as device auto-provisioning, uplink and downlink data processing and storage, as well as a simple way to work with all the other Thinger.io features, such as dashboarding to display data, geofencing support to track devices location and to create automatic alerts or even to be processed with a third plugin such as Node-RED’s or Graphana’s that also counts with integration on Thinger.io Platform.

Since its inception, Thinger.io Platform was developed with a strong focus on creating scalability, all its features from the communication protocol with PSON format, the database system, and the server are ready to create large projects. In today’s post, we will talk about the last advances made with this objective and the new functionalities that have been launched.

The new 2.9.8 release includes a strong improvement of this feature focused on increasing management capabilities for those users that are creating large device deployments, increasing the scalability of the overall system, but also for developers that want to custom each aspect of these interfaces to adapt it to their exact requirements.

In our constant effort to offer a transversal and polyvalent technology, we became offering an APP console, in addition to the web console, especially focused on providing a simple checking interface for small projects with just a few functionalities to check the status of some implementations or share devices with other users when the web console doesn’t provide this option.

It is increasingly common for connected projects to use geolocation elements, either to monitor the location of mobile assets such as vehicle fleets or livestock, or just in their graphical interface to help identify different devices through maps, as these visualizations offer an easy way to identify devices in a given network based on their position.