What is Synacl?
Synacl is an IoT platform for collecting sensor data, visualizing it, and acting on it.
The pieces fit together like this:
- Devices produce measurements (temperature, voltage, flow…). A device can talk to us directly over MQTT, or through a gateway.
- Gateways read local sensors over RS485, Modbus, GPIO, I²C and forward their readings — an ESP32 running the Synacl firmware, or a software gateway you write yourself against the public gateway protocol.
- Dashboards turn live readings into charts, gauges, and indicators.
- Rules watch your data and fire alerts (in-app, email, webhook, MQTT) when a threshold is crossed.
- Integrations stream your data out to your own systems (webhooks, InfluxDB, MariaDB, Kafka).
Everything is multi-tenant and isolated to your account.
Where to start
- Quickstart: from signup to your first chart
- Connect your first gateway or add a direct device
- Build your first dashboard
- Create an alerting rule
Curious what changed recently? The version number in the page footer links to the changelog.
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