Custom IoT SaaS & PaaS platform development on a proven core
We build custom-grade B2B IoT SaaS and PaaS that turn your expertise into industry-wide software products
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2Smart Core is a host of pre-built modular IoT applications that can be combined for IoT SaaS development aligned with your unique value proposition, target niche, and customer business models. No compromises on what matters most when building, launching, and operating your platform.
Common IoT SaaS and IoT PaaS platform development models
2Smart Core way
Custom development
Doesn’t limit you in how your solution is architected, makes you the only owner of the product, and frees you from in-house development hassles. However, it demands significant investment to build nearly from scratch and then support over time.
Faster market entry with lower CAPEX
2Smart Core lets you launch your platform in 3-4 months instead of 12+ months, without unpredictable development cycles or heavy upfront costs typical for outsourced development.
Open-source IoT platforms
Yet their multi-tenant architecture and vendor-owned IP often restrict how much control you have, making them a poor fit for businesses that need to own the platform and tailor it to PaaS or SaaS models.
Competitive edge through unique solution design
Unlike open source platforms focused only on surface-level enhancements, 2Smart Core gives you the flexibility to shape your product around evolving customer needs on a fundamental level.
IoT frameworks for secondary development
Environments like AWS IoT Core provide a solid foundation to avoid starting from scratch, but they also require deep IoT expertise on your side and tend to lock you into a specific cloud ecosystem.
Freedom to own, manage, and scale
You decide where and how your platform operates, on any infrastructure and on your terms, keeping full business ownership and independence.
No internal development or maintenance burden
This means zero IoT software staffing overhead during development and ongoing solution support and a clear focus on your business.
Stop choosing between speed, cost, and uniqueness.
With 2Smart Core, you get all three – a complete path to your own IoT SaaS/PaaS, built for long-term growth and independence.
Ready-to-combine modules and services for IoT SaaS and custom IoT PaaS development
Tenant management
Support complex customer organisations with multi-tenant IoT SaaS hierarchies that mirror their real-world structure: business units, partners, locations, teams, and permission groups. You own the top-level platform layer, governing access and data separation.
Billing and monetization
Monetize platform usage through built-in subscription, plan, and billing models. Automate invoicing and revenue tracking while keeping full control of pricing logic and limits.
Device integration and provisioning
You and your clients can connect any type of hardware through universal protocol bridges. Support multi-network connectivity and seamlessly onboard new devices with automatic credential management.
Device and asset management
Comprehensive lifecycle management for device and data management SaaS. Remote monitoring, firmware updates, configuration control, and troubleshooting tools keep customer devices operational without on-site visits.
Mobile apps for technicians and end-clients
End users can control and monitor devices in real time, while installers and technicians get dedicated tools for setup, diagnostics, and maintenance.
Developer tools
Empower your clients to build, adapt, and update their IoT solutions faster with the Mobile App Builder, Firmware Manager, and SDKs that enable rapid feature development and deployment.
Data streaming and analytics
Telemetry collection and visualization in real time, combining historical and live data for performance monitoring, issue prediction, and insight generation on operational and behavioral patterns.
Automation
Automation of device behavior and service workflows through configurable scenarios, templates, and custom logic for alerts, triggers, and actions, managed without coding.
Architectural-level custom development
Custom feature development and architectural adjustments to fit unique business models or advanced product requirements, ensuring your platform evolves alongside your business strategy.
Industry-specific customization
We adapt the platform for your niche with tailored dashboards, automation templates, and workflows designed around your clients’ operational logic and user scenarios.
AI readiness
Built to connect with AI tools and data pipelines for predictive analytics, intelligent automation, and adaptive user experiences. A consistent data model enables AI-driven features such as demand forecasting and agentic LLMs.
Enterprise-grade security
Security architecture designed for high-scale IoT platforms, protecting data flows, user access, and infrastructure at every level.
Isolated deployment
On-premises
The platform is deployed within your own infrastructure, ensuring complete control over performance, data, and compliance. You define security policies, handle maintenance, and manage updates according to your internal standards. Deployment can be carried out by your IT team.
Private cloud
The solution runs in your private cloud, combining full data ownership with flexible scaling. This model keeps infrastructure under your control while reducing the operational load on your engineers. Our team assists with setup, testing , and automation.
Managed cloud
The platform operates in our managed infrastructure, with each client’s environment securely isolated or hosted in a dedicated instance. We take care of deployment, scaling, monitoring, and updates, so you can focus on product development and client delivery.
Tailored SaaS and PaaS solutions built on our modular IoT framework
1. IoT SaaS/PaaS to serve clients from a specific industry or domain
With 2Smart Core, you can monetize your expertise in digitalizing specific workflows. We’ll help you with IoT SaaS platform development that will become the foundation of a new, successful business. In this model, your responsibility is limited to the software layer; your clients handle device integration on their side.
SaaS/PaaS for enterprises and system integrators — accelerate IoT digitalization of sites and assets by adapting your solution to the unmet needs of a specific sector, such as agribusiness or building management.
SaaS/PaaS for manufacturers and operators — create a complete IoT ecosystem connecting manufacturers, distributors, installers, and end B2B/B2C clients, with powerful tools for equipment management at every level.
MyBox – EV charging management platform: evolving from equipment-as-a-service to multi-vendor software ecosystem
Our collaboration with MyBox, a manufacturer of EV charging stations for business and consumer markets, began with building a cloud platform to smartify and monetize their own charging infrastructure. The initial goal was to enable remote device management, automated maintenance, and service monetization.
As the platform matured, it evolved into a full-fledged IoT PaaS supporting multiple hardware vendors and distributor networks. The system now powers end-to-end management of private and public chargers across brands, providing a unified environment for device provisioning and monitoring, firmware updates, billing, and customer support.
2. IoT PaaS to serve clients across multiple industries and business models
We’ll help you launch a universal PaaS that supports IoT product development across different sectors – from smart home and energy management to industrial automation. Your platform will empower IoT startups and established enterprises to build, connect, and manage their own smart solutions without starting from scratch, accelerating time-to-market and reducing infrastructure costs.
2Smart Cloud – universal PaaS platform for building connected products
Developed by our team on top of the 2Smart Core framework, 2Smart Cloud empowers companies to build and operate their own connected products across multiple industries with low-code, scalable, and secure IoT infrastructure.
The platform provides a complete environment for IoT product development, including firmware delivery, device and user management, automation, analytics, mobile app builder, and white-labeling.
Licensing models for SaaS and PaaS initiatives
Subscription license (pay-as-you-go)
Best for getting to market fast and staying flexible. This model is designed for startups that prioritize speed, and predictable monthly costs.
- You are going to build an IoT SaaS platform MVP or early production version.
- You want to preserve cash and keep costs fully operational.
- Source code ownership is not a near-term requirement.
Hybrid license (from subscription to buyout)
Best for de-risking growth and preparing for long-term ownership. Allows you to start with a subscription while validating product-market fit, then transition to ownership once the business model is proven.
- You expect the platform to become core IP over time.
- You want an option to buy out the codebase after traction or funding milestones.
- You need flexibility today without locking in long-term decisions too early.
Roadmap to building your own IoT SaaS or PaaS with 2Smart Core
Discovery and domain alignment
We start by analyzing your business model, industry workflows, and technical landscape to define the optimal architecture. Whether your goal is to monetize hardware, create a cross-industry PaaS, or extend integration services, we align product capabilities with your strategic vision and market positioning.
Solution architecture
We leverage relevant 2Smart Core modules as the foundation of IoT PaaS platform development and extend them with custom business logic, UI components, dashboards, and domain-specific workflows. This hybrid model ensures both rapid delivery and true product differentiation.
Infrastructure and connectivity
Our engineers deploy a secure, scalable, and hardware-agnostic cloud environment, pre-configured for any IoT workload. If your solution involves specific hardware, gateways, or networks, we adapt the connectivity and data routing layers accordingly.
Platform development and integration
We implement the platform’s core functionality and integrate third-party systems such as ERP, CRM, or payment gateways. For hardware manufacturers, we provide connectivity tools and APIs, for integrators – adapters and middleware, for cross-industry PaaS – SDKs and developer environments.
Testing and optimisation
Each component undergoes functional, performance, and security testing. We simulate device behaviour, validate automation logic, and optimise data pipelines for high throughput and low latency in large-scale IoT environments.
Launch and enablement
We deploy the platform to production under your brand, configuring the hosting environment, user access roles, and management tools. Your solution is delivered as a fully branded product, from interface design to operational infrastructure, ready to onboard devices, partners, or end customers, depending on your business model.
Post-launch support and evolution
For clients hosted on our managed cloud, we provide continuous monitoring, updates, and DevOps maintenance to ensure stable performance and security. For self-hosted deployments, we deliver new releases, technical guidance. We also provide evolution support, helping you expand into new verticals, integrate advanced capabilities, or launch new revenue models.
Unique IoT needs have one real answer.
2Smart Core delivers custom-quality solutions under your ownership – fast, affordable, and backed by a battle-tested framework that embodies proven expertise.
IoT SaaS and PaaS development FAQs
What are the benefits of an enterprise IoT SaaS platform for managing devices and data?
Those benefits must be designed by you, based on your domain expertise, market focus, and commercial strategy. What our framework provides is a reliable, scalable foundation that allows those benefits to be delivered consistently across customers.
In practice, this means you are responsible for deciding:
- which problems your platform solves and for whom
- which data, workflows, and insights create real value
- how devices and users are managed across different customer models
- and how the platform is packaged and monetized.
How can enterprise IoT PaaS support cross-industry applications and integrations?
An enterprise IoT PaaS acts as a foundation for building and operating multiple IoT solutions across industries on a single core. It provides shared services such as device connectivity, asset management, automation, and APIs, while allowing industry-specific logic to be implemented on top.
This approach enables integrations with diverse hardware, protocols, and external systems (ERP, CRM, billing) and allows your clients to build their own solutions within your ecosystem.
What makes a custom IoT PaaS different from off-the-shelf open source platforms?
If you build an IoT PaaS platform on top of an open source solution, you usually get a strong technical baseline, but you still have to turn it into a product: multi-tenant governance, commercial logic, onboarding flows, role models, support tooling, upgrade strategy, and long-term maintainability. In practice, this often becomes custom development anyway, with timelines and risks similar to building from scratch, plus the cost of operating and evolving the chosen open source stack.
2Smart Core is not “custom from zero” and not “just a framework.” It is a production-ready IoT core that already includes platform-grade building blocks (multi-level tenancy, access control, device lifecycle management, automation, analytics, and optional billing/plan logic) while still allowing architectural-level customization where your PaaS needs to differ.
How does custom IoT PaaS platform development with 2Smart Core address data ownership and compliance?
With 2Smart Core, data ownership and compliance are determined by how your platform is deployed. At the deployment level, you can run the platform on-premises, in your private cloud, in a managed cloud, where each environment is isolated or dedicated, and operated under defined SLAs.
This flexibility allows you to align data residency, security controls, and operational responsibility with regulatory requirements across regions and industries.
2Smart Core allows you to design compliance and data ownership into your platform as structural properties, not as constraints imposed by where or how the software is hosted.
How do I choose the right company for IoT SaaS/PaaS development to ensure success?
The safest choice is a partner that combines a proven IoT platform core with full delivery responsibility.
Most vendors fall into one of two categories: teams that offer custom development from scratch with high cost and delivery risk, or providers of ready-made platforms that limit ownership, flexibility, and long-term control.
2Smart Core was built specifically to close this gap.