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Why build your IoT system on an event mesh powered by Solace?
An event mesh distributes events among decoupled applications, cloud services, and connected devices.
- Never Lose a Message: Solace offers built-in high availability and disaster recovery, and can buffer/replay data so disconnected and slow consumers get messages as soon as they can.
- Enable Command & Control: Solace event brokers can send alerts and instructions to specific devices or groups of devices so you can safely command and control assets and vehicles.
- Future-proof your Infrastructure: Solace makes it easy to fold AI, analytics, AI, 5G, and RPA into your IoT initiatives thanks to a loosely coupled architecture that lets you add or replace publishers and subscribers through subscriptions and topics.
- Start Small, Scale Fast: With feature parity across cloud, software and appliances, you can easily prototype new functionality, shift into production, and scale to support billions of messages a day.
- Secure Your Data: Solace supports enterprise-grade security in the areas of authentication, authorization and encryption. Learn more.
- Use the Right API and Protocol for Every Interaction: Solace supports your favorite APIs and open standards like MQTT (including MQTT 5.0) and Sparkplug B.
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How Enterprises are Applying Event Mesh to IoT
- Connected Vehicle Initiatives: A premium car manufacturer is leveraging events to make its “always-on” connected car system more responsive, real-time, and resilient, across tens of millions of vehicles.
- Energy: A major company that supplies energy to 250,000 businesses across Britain uses an event mesh to move data in real-time.
- Supply Chain: A global consumer packaged goods company is streaming events from thousands of vessels and ocean containers to drive new supply chain efficiencies and cost reductions.
- Manufacturing: A consumer manufacturing company is sensing ink levels on printers to deliver replacement cartridges before they run out.
- Smart City: Singapore is monitoring and controlling 6,000+ buses on its transit system in real-time to reduce wait times and create a positive environmental impact.
- Smart Elevators: An industry-leading provider of smart elevators, escalators, and moving walkways is streaming events to support their next generation urban mobility platform.
- Airport Operations: Hong Kong International Airport is using IoT for real-time equipment tracking and predictive maintenance of their airport infrastructure.


