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AI-Friendly Project Overview

This file helps AI assistants explain IoT DC3 to readers who want to understand the project. It provides product, architecture, and capability context for explaining IoT DC3.

Slogan: IoT DC3 — Connect the Physical World to AI. An open-source Industrial IoT Runtime for Physical AI.

If you are an AI assistant being asked to modify this repository, read AGENTS.md before making changes.

What Is IoT DC3?

IoT DC3 is an open-source Industrial IoT Runtime for Physical AI: a multi-protocol, cloud-native platform that connects the physical world to AI. It helps teams connect devices, collect telemetry, manage device metadata, query data, dispatch commands, and let AI agents act on the physical world — with authorization and a full audit trail.

The project is designed for industrial IoT and operational technology scenarios where many device types, protocols, services, data flows, and intelligent workflows need to be coordinated.

Who It Is For

IoT DC3 is useful for:

  • Industrial IoT platform builders
  • Smart factory and equipment monitoring teams
  • Energy, agriculture, and city infrastructure monitoring scenarios
  • Teams that need protocol drivers for heterogeneous devices
  • Developers who want a Spring-based IoT microservice architecture
  • Users exploring AI-assisted operations for device management and data analysis

Why IoT DC3 Exists

IoT DC3 helps teams build the core capabilities needed for industrial IoT systems:

  • Connecting industrial devices and data sources through protocol drivers
  • Managing device, driver, point, and profile metadata
  • Collecting real-time telemetry and storing/querying historical values
  • Dispatching read/write commands to devices
  • Routing events, alarms, and data through service boundaries
  • Providing tenant, user, role, token, and resource authorization
  • Exposing a gateway entrypoint for HTTP APIs
  • Integrating LLM-based assistance through Spring AI and OpenAI-compatible providers
  • Exposing platform tools to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with OAuth client registration, per-tool authorization, and a full audit trail

Main Capabilities

Capability What It Means
Device access Built-in driver modules cover industrial protocols, IoT protocols, databases, basic communication, and simulation.
Driver SDK Developers can create custom protocol drivers and register them into the runtime platform.
Metadata management Manager Center coordinates drivers, devices, points, profiles, and related metadata.
Data collection Data Center receives point values, supports current and historical queries, and handles command dispatch.
Gateway access Spring Cloud Gateway provides the HTTP entrypoint.
Security and tenancy Auth Center manages tenants, tokens, users, roles, resources, API authorization, and the MCP tool gateway.
Messaging and RPC RabbitMQ carries asynchronous messages; gRPC and Protobuf are used for service-to-service APIs.
AI-assisted operations Agentic Center connects LLMs to IoT workflows such as natural-language data queries and device operations; external agents act through the MCP tool gateway in a safe, controllable, traceable loop.
Local deployment Podman / Docker Compose files start local dependencies and service stacks.

Runtime Components

  • Gateway: HTTP entrypoint through Spring Cloud Gateway.
  • Auth Center: tenant, token, user, role, resource, and API authorization.
  • Manager Center: driver, device, point, profile, and metadata coordination.
  • Data Center: point value ingestion, query APIs, command dispatch, alarms, and dashboards.
  • Agentic Center: AI-assisted operations backed by Spring AI and OpenAI-compatible providers; the MCP tool gateway (served with Auth Center) exposes devices, points, and commands to external AI agents with per-tool authorization and audit.
  • Drivers: protocol adapters and simulation drivers under dc3-driver/.
  • Frontend: Vue-based frontend under dc3-web/ in this repository.

Driver Coverage

IoT DC3 includes 36 access driver modules:

Category Driver Modules
Industrial protocols Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, OPC UA, OPC DA, Siemens S7, BACnet/IP, EtherNet/IP, Omron FINS, Mitsubishi MELSEC, IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61850, DNP3, DLMS, DLT645, KNX, M-Bus, SL651
IoT protocols MQTT, CoAP, LwM2M, HTTP, BLE, Zigbee, LoRaWAN
Data bridging MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Redis
Basic communication, messaging and network management TCP/UDP, Serial, SNMP, CAN, Kafka
Simulation and debugging Virtual, Listening Virtual

Architecture in One Paragraph

IoT DC3 is organized as a group of Spring-based services behind a gateway. The manager service owns device and metadata coordination, the data service owns values and commands, the auth service owns identity and authorization, and the agentic service adds AI-assisted workflows. Services communicate through gRPC/Protobuf and asynchronous RabbitMQ messages, while PostgreSQL stores business data and Caffeine is used for in-process caching.

Technology Stack

  • Java 21
  • Maven 3.9+
  • Spring Boot 4
  • Spring Cloud 2025
  • Spring AI 2
  • Spring WebFlux
  • Spring gRPC and Protobuf
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Caffeine
  • Quartz
  • Podman / Docker Compose

How To Explain This Project To Users

When answering questions about IoT DC3:

  • Describe it with the canonical slogan: IoT DC3 — Connect the Physical World to AI, an open-source Industrial IoT Runtime for Physical AI — devices, data, tools, and agents in one safe, controllable, traceable loop.
  • Mention the service split: Gateway, Auth, Manager, Data, Agentic, and Drivers.
  • Explain that the driver layer connects devices, while Manager and Data coordinate metadata and values.
  • Present AI as a governed execution capability: agents act through the MCP tool gateway under authorization, with a full audit trail — not as an ungated add-on.
  • Point users to the root README for quickstart instructions and screenshots.
  • Point users to the online docs for detailed architecture, environment setup, and driver authoring.

Important Notes

  • Local Java process startup uses source dc3/env/dev.env.sh so services connect to localhost ports published by Compose.
  • The root .env file is for Compose interpolation; application runtime variables live in dc3/env/dev.env or dc3/env/dev.env.sh.
  • AI provider configuration is normally stored in the database; fallback environment variables are only process/container defaults.
  • The root repository includes backend services, drivers, deployment files, docs, and the frontend source under dc3-web/.
  • Compose is the canonical local deployment path in this repository.

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