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Plan
Define the goal and the team
Decide what to measure and why. Create a project in CHERT, invite members and agree who owns it.
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Self-hosted IoT platform
From sensor to insight. Every layer of IoT, in one platform.
CHERT IoT gives every project its own secure workspace: connect devices over MQTT, HTTP or LoRaWAN, watch live dashboards, automate with Node-RED and analyse in Python — on your own servers, in English and Arabic.
- Lifecycle stages
- 9
- IoT layers
- 4
- Integrated components
- 25
- Languages
- 2
The IoT project lifecycle
Every IoT project follows the same journey. CHERT covers all of it.
Nine stages, from the first idea to a system that runs and improves. Select a stage to see what happens — and which parts of CHERT make it work.
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Provision
Get an isolated workspace
Creating a project provisions its own ThingsBoard tenant, a starter dashboard and a secure place for its data — in seconds.
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Build devices
Wire sensors and flash firmware
Register each device to get its access token, then flash ready-made starter code onto an ESP32, a Raspberry Pi or a browser device.
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Connect
Transmit securely
Devices publish over MQTTS, HTTPS or LoRaWAN. Traffic is encrypted end to end and authenticated per device.
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Ingest & store
Process every reading
The rule engine validates, enriches and routes each message, then stores it as time-series data you can query later.
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Visualise
See what is happening
Live dashboards, per-device monitoring with last-seen status, and 24-hour trends in the portal.
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Automate & alert
React automatically
Set thresholds that raise alarms, then send emails, call webhooks or trigger actions with Node-RED flows.
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Analyse
Turn data into insight
Pull your history into a JupyterLab notebook, clean it with pandas, chart it with matplotlib and share findings.
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Operate & evolve
Keep it running, then improve
Watch platform health, rotate device tokens, print lifecycle reports and feed what you learned into the next iteration.
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Interactive architecture
Every layer of an IoT system — and the CHERT component that runs it
Select any component to learn what it does, or play a journey and watch data move through the platform.
Select a component or play a journey.
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Devices & sensing
Sensors and microcontrollers that measure the physical world.
02
Connectivity & edge
Secure transport from the field into the platform.
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Platform & data
Device registry, rule engine, alarms and durable storage.
04
Applications & insight
Where people see, automate and analyse their data.
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Security & identity
One identity, isolated projects.
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Operations & observability
Keeping the platform healthy.
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Why CHERT IoT
Built for real projects, real teams and real data
Isolated by design
Each project is its own tenant with its own devices, data, dashboards, flows and notebooks. Members see only what they belong to.
Self-hosted and sovereign
The whole platform runs on your own servers, with pinned versions and no third-party cloud. Your data never leaves your infrastructure.
English and Arabic
Every screen, guide and tool speaks both languages, with proper Arabic typography — switch at any time.
Made for learning and teams
Owners, members, instructors and administrators each get the right tools, from a first ESP32 to a fleet of LoRaWAN sensors.
Open protocols
Standard MQTT, HTTP and LoRaWAN — use the hardware you already have, with no proprietary lock-in.
Ready in minutes
Sign up, create a project and see your first reading on a dashboard in about ten minutes.
Your first reading is ten minutes away.
Create a free account, start a project and connect a device — or use your browser as one.