Enterprise MQTT solutions provider HiveMQ today announced HiveMQ Swarm, a solution that enables organisations of all sizes to reliably simulate and test large-scale IoT networks.
The company said in a press release that HiveMQ Swarm enables enterprises to easily test the scalability and performance of their IoT deployments, resulting in significantly increased quality and reliability of their system. The company claimed HiveMQ Swarm was also the first solution that provided global enterprises with a superior solution to forecast capacity, infrastructure, and financial cost planning prior to putting their IoT system into production.
“As IoT solutions continue to grow in both scope and volume, the ability to test IoT solutions for scale and performance becomes mission-critical,” said Dominik Obermaier, CTO and founder of HiveMQ in a written statement. “We have extensive experience with some of the largest IoT systems in the world. These customers have asked us to help them validate their systems before going into production. Swarm meets these needs by enabling our enterprise customers to ensure their large-scale IoT systems perform to expectation the first time they’re deployed.”
HiveMQ Swarm was designed specifically to solve the challenges of testing today’s large-scale IoT deployments. Swarm is a distributed platform able to create hundreds of millions of unique network connections that simulate devices, messages, and MQTT topics (a form of addressing that allows MQTT clients to share information), as well as develop reusable scenarios that emulate device behaviors. In addition to a custom data generator to create complex use cases for testing, HiveMQ Swarm is designed to seamlessly integrate with enterprise cloud infrastructure, including public clouds (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and Kubernetes-based systems.
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