OpenCore is the full OpenThings IoT platform which is open-source and can be installed on the cloud or desktop. Configure devices to connect to your Community Edition instance and collect device data. Use the web application for device management, reporting, dashboards, live SCADA mimics, trends, mapping, geo-fencing and receive email notifications of real-time incidents.
The OpenThings phone app is not open-source and not included in the Community Edition.
We are putting the final touches on the installation script and should have it available for download in the next few weeks.
The Commercial Edition is the same as the Community Edition but includes the following extras under license:
Automated billing is the ability to take credit card subscription payments for your devices. Manually billing clients for thousands of devices is tedious, prone to human error, requires robust systems to be developed and put in place and the overhead of a dedicated staff member to carry out the billing every month. If a client defaults on their payment the system automatically blocks access until the account has been settled.
The OpenThings Smartphone App which is not available in the Community Edition and is not available as open-source is a powerful mobile tool allowing you the same functionality as the Web app, and is ideally suited for people on the go and technicians in the field. Receive push notifications when your devices report that something critical has happened or is about to happen. Remotely control device outputs.
Direct first line support gives you a direct line of communication to our support team to help you diagnose system issues such as connectivity or assist with your hosting environment.
Rolling updates caters for system upgrades, new feature additions and bug fix roll outs to your hosting environment, keeping you up to date with the latest and greatest versions available.
We provide an e-commerce solution enabling you to sell your products and allows for the ability to integrate with your IoT Platform instances if required. We charge 3% per transaction.
The commercial license includes addons for process management, team collaboration and management of daily operations. Read up more on trello.com and slack.com
biTid will set up your hosting environment on your cloud of choice (Google, AWS, Azure, on-premise) and change simple branding (white label). We will provide basic health monitoring of your environment via our own IoT platform instance.
A license is required per instance. An instance is a kubernetes cluster running on your cloud provider of choice. Each instance can be while labelled accordingly.
The following example explains:
Your company lets call it "Company A" is a company which wants to offer IoT solutions. You sign up as a System Integrator with biTid. You now want to setup an instance of the biTid IoT platform and brand it as "Company A". You now have to chose which license you want to use for your Company A instance. You probably chose "15% Royalty (Month to Month)" because you don't have many devices and you will probably use this instance for Proof of Concepts for your clients you are marketing to or for small clients with few devices.
You find a new client lets call it "Client A". Client A is a big international company looking for a solid IoT Solution. You let Client A use your instance to trial the IoT offering bearing in mind that they are always presented with your branding. Client A is impressed and decides that they want their own instance with their own branding and they want it installed in their own Data Centres on premise. You can on-sell them a license for their instance. You will purchase a license from biTid and mark it up accordingly.
Client A might have 100000 devices which they want to place on the IoT platform. Doing the calculation of paying a Royalty vs paying a Once-Off (Royalty Free) license , they figure it is best to rather pay the once-off (Royalty Free) license. You will purchase a license from biTid for Client A and mark it up.
Once-Off (Royalty Free)
15% Royalty (Month to Month)
10% Royalty (Annually)
Once-Off perpetual license
15% of software selling price per device monthly
10% of software selling price per device annually
If you as Company A purchase a 15% license, you charge your clients a monthly hosting fee per device. biTid charges you a royalty fee of 15% of your monthly selling price.
If you as Company A purchase a 10% license, you charge your client an annual hosting fee per device. biTid charges you a royalty fee of 10% of your annual selling price.
We host and manage our own instance of our platform on our own servers and you pay as you go per device per month. Get up and running in minutes. Ideal for low volumes of devices and proof of concept.
You may want to consider the Commercial License if you start to scale as you have more control over your pricing to the end user.
Pricing is based on how much data a device sends to our servers. Some devices send very little data and others can stream data on a continuous basis. We therefore have to treat each device type on a case by case basis.
We currently cater for SigFox and GSM categories. Some devices cater for I/O expansion modules which also increases the amount of data a device sends to our servers. We therefore have a base price per device and charge additional for each I/O per device.
SigFox Device
GSM Device
Base Cost:
R 7.5
R15
Typical I/O Count(This may vary depending on device type):
3
Battery Voltage/Signal Strength/Monitored Signal
10
Battery Voltage/Signal Strength/4 Digitals/4 Analogs
I/O Price:
R 1
R 2
TOTAL(per device per month):
R 10.5
R 35
All pricing excl VAT
Community Edition:
OpenCore (Charge to set up R5000 and white label)
Web Apps Only - No OpenThings phone app
Host on your own infrastructure or any cloud. A Google Cloud self hosted basic instance costs between R1500 - R2500 per month.
Commercial Edition:
Commercial license @ 15% of sales per month.
Automated billing (Credit Card payments/Payfast)
15% of billed items
Optional e-commerce Shop(5% of sales billed monthly)
OpenThings - Phone app (Not Open-Sourced)
Direct first line support (Office hours only)
Rolling Updates
You provide the hosting environment at your cost. A Google Cloud self hosted basic instance is approximately R1500 - R2500 per month.
We will set it up for you.
Scale as you grow your business.
Software as a Service
Pay as you go per device per month
We manage server infrastructure
Additional Services:
Customisation/Development(R1000 per hour)
Consulting services (R2000 per hour)
Custom SLAs (Negotiable)
We are able to assist with any software development such as customisation and system/device integrations. We charge R 1000 per hour.
We also offer consulting services to help you turn potential projects into live systems. We charge R 2000 per hour which is cheaper than having a permanent employee adding to your overheads.
If you require additional ongoing support we can negotiate a tailored SLA solution.
biTid can set up your hosting environment on google cloud and change simple branding (white label) for R 5000 as a once off fee.
Server hosting environment and costs are your responsibility. A basic instance for production use hosted on google cloud is approximately R2500 - R 3500 per month which you would handle directly with google. You are able to host on any cloud of your choice, biTid has chosen google cloud for its SaaS offering.