The platform to control global IoT deployments in realtime when service reliability and availability is paramount
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Powers forecasting algorithms and APIs that predict future energy consumption in realtime.
Provides a platform to monitor, approve, and manage drone operations and restricted air zones in realtime.
Realtime instrument, equipment, and experiment monitoring for scientists across industrial and clinical research labs.
Deliver the monitoring and control your end-users need to make critical decisions in the moment
Device control. Manage and control devices at a global scale with roundtrips in the milliseconds.
Dashboards and charts. Easily visualize realtime data across browsers and mobile devices.
Geolocation. Track the location of devices with larger footprints - like drones - in realtime.
MQTT protocol. Use the lightweight IoT protocol for devices with smaller footprints like embedded devices.
Our customers rely on us to integrate building data, systems and equipment to give actionable insights into site and portfolio performance across 120 million square feet. With Ably we’re able to connect to millions of edge devices in a secure, scalable and reliable fashion. This facilitates realtime delivery of control commands and events, reducing maintenance and energy costs across our customers’ portfolios.
The complete realtime data synchronization stack for IoT deployments of any kind
Publish messages to millions of subscribers over channels that support multiplexing.
Know when devices or users are online by subscribing to presence events.
Retrieve previously published messages and historical presence events.
On disconnect we keep connection state and attempt reconnection every 15 seconds for two minutes.
Ably guarantees all messages are delivered in the same order as originally published.
Ably supports pub/sub over WebSockets, MQTT, and Server-Sent Events (SSE).
Trigger business logic (e.g. AWS Lambda) or process data elsewhere (e.g. RabbitMQ).
Manage user permissions and chat messages with Ably's flexible JWT authentication implementation.
Deliver cross-platform push notifications with our iOS and Android SDKs.
Create dependable realtime experiences at scale
Ably was built from the ground-up to be the trusted infrastructure that supports complex, business-critical, realtime experiences in fast-growing scenarios. Our mathematically modelled approach to system design ensures critical functionality at scale and provides unmatched quality of service guarantees, enabling you to create dependable digital experiences that will delight your end-users.
Ably’s Four Pillars of Dependability
We focus on predictability of latencies, and we guarantee <65 ms round trip latency for 99th percentile. We also provide unlimited channel throughput.
Message ordering, guaranteed delivery, and exactly-once semantics are built-in, from the moment a message is published to Ably, all the way to its delivery to consumers.
Fault tolerance at regional and global levels to guarantee continuity of service even in the case of multiple infrastructure failures. 99.999999% message survivability.
Ably is meticulously designed for high availability and extreme scale. We ensure 50% capacity margin for instant surges, and provide a 99.999% uptime SLA.
Choosing Ably has been quite easy for us because of its feature set, its scalability, high availability and its fair pricing that can let us grow with confidence.
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