Industry Pain Points
Product homogenization, weak brand power, rising data security requirements, and high cross-domain R&D costs — smart hardware factories are facing the challenge of transforming from "manufacturing" to "ecosystem".
Products
Products are heavily homogenized, while demand for scenario-specific customization keeps growing.
Brand
Every company has a brand dream — to break free from pure price competition and build core competitiveness.
Business
As platform and data security gain importance, privatization will become the future trend of intelligent ecosystems.
R&D
Embedded and platform R&D are two different disciplines, leading to high costs, heavy investment, and difficult management.
ThingBoot Core Capabilities
What can ThingBoot do? We offer three capabilities — public cloud open platform, private deployment, and fully local device operation — covering the complete chain from devices to platform.
IoT Open Platform
IoT Open Platform
Devices connect to the ThingBoot public cloud, and the ThingBoot Open Platform exposes device management and control interfaces to end users. All devices can be integrated into any form of application software project.
Private IoT Platform
IoT Platform Privatization
ThingBoot will deploy a fully self-controlled private IoT platform for you, including complete capabilities such as state machine, OTA, NTP, logging service, API service, event service, debugging service, command components, configuration components, and caching components.
- Build a proprietary smart hardware ecosystem for factories
- Build a smart hardware brand for brand owners
- Build internal IoT platforms and applications for enterprise groups
Device Privatization
Device Privatization
In high-security and privacy-sensitive scenarios (such as small-scale deployments in government, energy, and transportation industries), the ThingBoot solution enables devices to work on a pure LAN without relying on any external network or platform, while still exposing control interfaces.
IoT Open Platform Partnership
Firmware Licensing
ThingBoot develops and licenses firmware for you, with a licensing fee of 1–2 CNY per device; firmware can be flashed by ThingBoot, or you can directly purchase ThingBoot pre-flashed modules.
API Calls
The ThingBoot platform charges you 10–15 CNY per device for API call usage.
Product Premium
Depending on the customer, factories can add at least 20–30 CNY to the original product price, achieving rapid value growth.
Private IoT Platform
Annual licensing, flexible and controllable
The platform can be licensed as a one-time purchase or on an annual basis, ranging from 3,000–20,000 CNY per year per server depending on the edition. For factories and their customers, we will return 30% of the first-year licensing fee to you as a commission.
Get a Licensing QuoteWho It's For
Factories
Build a proprietary smart hardware ecosystem
Brand Owners
Build a smart hardware brand
Enterprise Groups
Build internal IoT platforms and applications
Cooperation Models
ThingBoot provides comprehensive support across technology, R&D, and business, building the smart hardware ecosystem together with factory partners.
ThingBoot
Provides comprehensive and powerful technical support, from hardware R&D design and industrial design to business-level services such as website building, traffic generation, and customer acquisition. We channel leads to factory partners, delivering a continuous stream of genuine, reliable business opportunities.
Smart Hardware Factories
By adopting the ThingBoot solution, you will be able to meet more customer needs and achieve a product price premium. In the future, you can build your own smart hardware brand and strengthen your company's core competitiveness.
No production line changes — just flash ThingBoot firmware
You can flash the product firmware adapted for you by ThingBoot yourself, or purchase finished modules pre-flashed by ThingBoot.
Licensing fee: 1–2 CNY per license by volume
* Currently only supports the full range of ESP (Espressif) modules; other chip solutions will be supported in the future.
Full R&D support from hardware to software
Hardware R&D
PCB design, firmware development, industrial design
Software R&D
Hardware control programs, companion applications, IoT management platforms, smart hardware clients
Business leads + marketing support
Business Leads
ThingBoot works together with factory partners to solve customers' current needs.
Marketing Support
Design the factory's own official website for domestic and overseas trade, with SEO and GEO optimization services.