How to Build Your Own Ubidots
Replace Ubidots with a custom build. Powerful but simple Industrial IoT Solutions
Build Difficulty: 3/5
Plan for 1-2 weeks of building with AI assistance
Estimated Timeline
Based on 76 features at 1-2 Weeks difficulty, expect about 1-2 weeks with AI-assisted development.
Recommended Tech Stack
Full-stack React framework with API routes and server components
PostgreSQL database, auth, and real-time subscriptions
Utility-first styling for rapid UI development
Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 76 features
Visualization(12 features)
Display data with versatile widgets designed for clear insights and better decisions
Access purpose-built widgets designed for complex, industrial-grade applications including SCADA views, heatmaps, and specialized integrations
Organize different pages into tabs or layers within any dashboard, holding variety of content from other Ubidots pages to external third-party resources
Expand the type of content displayed in your dashboards beyond widgets and data
Organize different pages into tabs or layers within any device, holding variety of content
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Dev Tools(8 features)
Build and run custom cloud functions in Node.js or Python with a built-in AI assistant for faster development
Customize your app's layout, navigation, and design to match your brand and user needs
Developer-friendly environment to code or embed your own widgets or entire platform pages
Build AI-powered custom widgets and pages, or embed external content, to tailor your dashboards
Develop HTML Canvas widgets using React to build robust UIs based on components
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User Management(8 features)
Give your collaborators their own access profile with full access level except for Plans & Billing section
Configure end users' contact information for Event's alerts via email, voice, or SMS
Give end users permissions to create, edit, and manage Organizations on their own for scalable multi-tenant deployments
Manage users with tailored permissions and conveniently subdivide your operation into organizations
Allow your end users to create device groups and reports independently
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Data Management(7 features)
Transform raw data into meaningful insights for clearer trends and smarter decisions
Securely upload, retrieve, manage, and delete files within UbiFunctions
Store global variables that can be accessed from various places in your account for constants and shared credentials
Smart storage offering over 10 years of data preservation
Perform real-time calculations on your data with powerful math functions and logic
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Integration(7 features)
Increase data ingestion rate limits for centralizing data from multiple devices or external platforms
Centralize inbound data from your Ubidots account and forward it to other Ubidots modules or external services
Create your own API and parse data into a Node.js cloud function extending connect solution beyond Ubidots boundaries
Connect hardware to Ubidots cloud easily with more than 200 user-proven libraries and SDKs over HTTP, MQTT, TCP, UDP
Integrate with Google Tag Manager to improve your app with cookie compliance manager or customer support chat
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White Label(7 features)
Go beyond basic branding to fully tailor the look and navigation of your application
Deliver an experience that puts your brand front and center
Offer your own, custom-branded IoT Application
Enhance your brand presence with custom logo, domain, and colors
Offered as an add-on to remove branding indicators
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Security(6 features)
Increase your account's security by implementing an extra layer of protection beyond just username and password
Enterprise-grade access controls including login lockout, reCAPTCHA protection, SSO, password policies, and IP-based restrictions
Keep track of relevant actions performed across different entities such as dashboards, events, and devices
Use your Ubidots App as the host to your IoT resources and have a separate external app where end users access resources safely
User and token permissions with flexible, organization-wide roles
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Automation(5 features)
Design sophisticated alert workflows using complex AND/OR logic, scheduled triggers, and inactivity detection
Automate actions and alerts based on your data with powerful condition-based rules
Add conditional and complex business logic to hardware with triggered webhooks, SMS, email, and Slack alerts
Trigger Events using another variable as threshold
Monitor hundreds of devices with a single Global Event
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DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 76 features at moderate complexity.