Connecting Heterogeneous Fleets

Unify diverse devices without compromising reliability

AIoT has matured. Organisations are now connecting millions of devices to gain real time insights, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation. The challenge is no longer just scale, but fragmentation; fleets made up of devices, protocols, and data formats that rarely speak the same language, often operating across unreliable networks and constrained hardware.

MQTT provides the foundation to address this challenge. It is a lightweight, efficient, and open protocol that enables reliable data exchange between devices, cloud, and edge systems.

Cumulocity’s Managed MQTT Service extends MQTT beyond a simple broker into a unified AIoT messaging backbone. It securely connects heterogeneous fleets, normalises data across protocols, and enables downstream analytics and applications; proven for 100 million devices and one million messages per second, with enterprise grade security and effortless onboarding.

Transform Fragmented Fleets into Intelligence

Real time insight

Continuous, normalised data flow from heterogeneous devices into a unified platform for monitoring, alerts, and automation.

Simplified onboarding

Low code configuration and bulk registration enable rapid integration of diverse devices and protocols.

Massive scalability

Proven for tens of millions of devices and sustained high throughput across diverse fleets.

Secure by design

Device isolation, encryption, and certificate management ensure consistent security across all connected device types.

Protocol flexibility

MQTT for device connectivity, combined with support for other protocols, unified through a single messaging backbone and data model.

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The numbers tell the story

100 million
AIoT-scale proven, supporting 100 million concurrent devices for global deployments.
1 million
Production-validated throughput of 1 million messages per second for real-time analytics, monitoring, and automated response.
99.9%
Enterprise-grade, with redundancy and failover delivering 99.9% uptime and continuous connectivity.
15+
Built on 15+ years of AIoT innovation, supporting new protocols and future-proofing connected ecosystems.

Smarter MQTT for Scalable AIoT

Unify diverse device ecosystems

Modern IT landscapes must support millions of devices generating continuous streams of telemetry; from industrial machines and sensors to vehicles and infrastructure. Cumulocity provides a flexible communication layer that accommodates diverse payloads and protocols. This allows you to integrate any device—regardless of format—to tackle your heterogeneous landscape head-on.

Scale securely across global fleets

The Managed MQTT service supports massive deployments through its enterprise-grade messaging backbone, proven for 60 million concurrent MQTT clients and 1 million messages per second. Every connection is authenticated and encrypted, ensuring trust and strict device isolation across your entire global fleet.

Simplified Onboarding and Operations

Plug in any device and the platform will automatically accommodate its capabilities and map the data to a unified yet extensible domain model independent of the protocol it is using. Through its messaging backbone, the Managed MQTT service integrates seamlessly with other standards such as LwM2M or proprietary protocols, ensuring all data; past and present; can be harmonised into a single platform for analytics, automation, and business insight.

Digital Twin Manager

Map your normalized data to logical structures that reflect your actual operations. Leverage Digital Twin Manager to create a comprehensive digital representation of your heterogeneous assets, you can easily contextualize telemetry and manage complex hierarchies across factories, substations, and global infrastructure.

Turn raw data into actionable insight

Deploy pre-built analytics templates and utilize Streaming Analytics to effortlessly feed live, unified IoT data into your models. This generates real-time insights and automated responses, allowing applications to react instantly and trigger alerts or corrective actions.