ControlBird is a real-time automation platform for homes, buildings, and industrial sites. It connects your devices and equipment through a central data store, then lets you build dashboards, create automations, and monitor everything from a browser. Think of it as a universal control panel for any connected device.

We support all the major industrial protocols, including Modbus, OPC UA, MQTT, BACnet, and DNP3, plus ready-made integrations for popular smart-home platforms like Zigbee, Z-Wave, and ESPHome. We add new adapters and integrations regularly, so if your device has a network interface or serial port, it can almost certainly connect to ControlBird.

No. ControlBird includes visual builders for dashboards, automations, and device configuration. You can drag and drop to create everything. For advanced users, we also support JavaScript scripting for custom logic.

ControlBird is designed to scale from a single home to an entire building or industrial site. It includes built-in historian, alarm management, role-based access control, fault tolerance, and a visual dashboard builder. These are features that other platforms bolt on as addons. We publish detailed side-by-side comparisons with Home Assistant, Ignition, and ThingsBoard on our Compare page.

ControlBird is free for personal use only. It is not free for commercial use: if you use ControlBird in a business, you must contact our sales department at sales@controlbird.io for a commercial license. For personal use, ControlBird Cloud is the same product hosted for you, with up to 3 nodes per account, and the Community edition is the same product self-hosted on your own hardware. Both include every protocol, the built-in historian, alarms, and ControlBird AI with your own provider key. Want a walkthrough first? Email sales@controlbird.io to schedule a personalized demo.

Yes. The Community edition runs on your own infrastructure with Docker, so you keep full control over your data. If you would rather not run a server, ControlBird Cloud is the same product hosted for you, with SSL handled for you. Both are free for personal use; commercial use requires a license from sales@controlbird.io.

All connections use TLS encryption. Your data is stored on isolated infrastructure, and you control access with fine-grained role-based permissions. For maximum control, the Community edition runs entirely on your own hardware.