Mainflux is a performant and secure open-source IoT platform offering comprehensive capabilities for developing IoT solutions, connected applications, and smart products.
Designed as a set of microservices containerized with Docker and orchestrated using Kubernetes, the Mainflux IoT platform provides essential software infrastructure and middleware functions, including:
Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it ensures transparency, community-driven testing, bug fixes, and eliminates vendor lock-in and licensing issues.
Robust security via deployment-ready Mainflux Authentication and Authorization Server, customizable API keys, scoped JWT tokens, mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication with X.509 certificates, and NGINX reverse proxy for load-balancing, TLS, and DTLS connection termination.
Built using Golang and a microservice architecture, Mainflux delivers high performance, rapid deployment, fast execution, and a minimal resource footprint.
Easily extendable, allowing new features and vertical applications without core-platform modifications or reconfigurations.
Open, modular, and flexible architecture supports multiple IoT protocols and intuitive APIs for seamless integration with existing enterprise systems (e.g., ERP, BI, CRM), databases, analytics software, backend services, and cloud platforms.
Multi-protocol support, hardware agnostic design, and connectivity across any device or application, using a PUB/SUB multiprotocol messaging bridge (HTTP, MQTT, WebSocket, CoAP) powered by the NATS broker.
Microservice-based architecture built using proven open-source technologies ensures high performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
Deployable across a wide range, from multi-datacenter environments down to Raspberry Pi-class devices.
Designed specifically to ensure minimal operating expenses (OPEX) by selecting efficient core technologies.
Easily deployed on-premises, in hybrid configurations, or fully cloud-hosted environments.
The MFX-1 IoT Edge Gateway, based on the Mainflux open-source IoT platform, runs on optimized hardware (Solid Run HummingBoard CBi - Edge), specifically designed to meet B2B market needs for high-performance, secure, robust, and cost-effective industrial-grade devices.
The Mainflux cross-functional team offers expertise across all technology layers of IoT
providing high-quality, cost-effective solutions and comprehensive support for complex IoT projects.
Mainflux Labs is a consortium member of the Ashvin: EU H2020 funded, international R&D project which goal is to address long-lasting challenges of the construction industry using digital twins and the power of IoT as assistants for design, construction and maintenance of civil engineering infrastructures.
Intel Developer Zone in the blog post "View Metering In Action On Edge Middleware Platforms" demonstrates how Mainflux and EdgeX Foundry can be used for IoT metering which has large scale applications that are key to certain business ventures.
Mainflux Labs is a Serbian National Winner in the IoT category of Central European Startup Awards competition, which is a part of the Global Startup Awards, one of the largest independent startup ecosystem competitions.