DEALIoT + DEALHost + DEALData

Operate field data like a production system.

DEAL brings DEALIoT, DEALHost and DEALData together for IoT telemetry, operated infrastructure and governed data sharing.

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coordinated products
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operations view
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compliance evidence
DEAL Operate data with trust
DEALIoT
DEALHost
DEALData

One suite, three adoption paths

Build, host and govern.

Each product can be adopted independently. Together, they cover the full cycle from field ingestion to operated infrastructure, governance and controlled data sharing.

01

DEALIoT

Real-time IoT platform for sensors, media metadata and industrial streams. MQTT, Kafka, Flink, Airflow and Kubernetes are assembled to move from prototype to scalable operations.

  • MQTT to Kafka ingestion
  • Stream processing and backfill
  • Integrated observability and DLQ
02

DEALHost

Operated hosting for critical data workloads: Kubernetes, object storage, monitoring, backups, hardening and continuous operations.

  • Secured application clusters
  • Runbooks, alerts and backups
  • Cloud, hybrid or on-prem paths
03

DEALData

Governance and value layer: catalogues, evidence topics, controlled exports, Data Act, DGA, FAIR, Zenodo and OpenAIRE.

  • Catalogues and data products
  • Controlled sharing and traceability
  • Usable compliance evidence

Target platform

An open foundation that avoids vendor lock-in.

01 Capture

Connected devices, WildFi, MQTT gateways and media producers.

02 Transport

Kafka, schema registry, business topics, DLQ and event contracts.

03 Operate

Kubernetes, DEALHost, observability, security and SLOs.

04 Value

DEALData, catalogues, exports, compliance evidence and controlled sharing.

Why adopt

The difference: an auditable architecture before production.

The DEAL suite does not only sell a diagram. It provides manifests, tests, workflows, runbooks, security evidence and documentation that reduce adoption risk.

Tests CI/CD guardrails

Unit, integration, deployment, Kustomize, Swarm and supply-chain validation.

Scalability Horizontal by design

Shared MQTT subscriptions, Kafka partitions, Flink task managers, HPA and PDB.

Trust Compliance evidence

Dedicated topics for governance, security, resilience and European obligations.

Adoption path

A public path to evaluate without friction.

The DEAL suite exposes a clear path: test locally, scope a 30-day pilot, document integrations and contribute without breaking production guardrails.

Evaluate

Reproducible demo

Run the smoke test, choose one field stream, measure the first usable event and capture decision evidence.

Read the pilot playbook
Contribute

Structured community

Discussions, feedback forms, support rules, community rituals and roadmap triage make user adoption readable and maintainable.

Community plan
Integrate

Partners and use cases

Concrete livestock, research, agriculture, industrial, publication and partner scenarios make fit easier to validate.

Use case catalog
Decide

Champion decision kit

Comparison, quick evaluation and internal champion materials help teams convert interest into a measured adoption decision.

Open the decision kit
Develop

Contributor community

Contribution tracks, mentoring labels, governance rules and contributor help discussions make development support easier to join.

Start contributing

Direct answers

Short answers for fast evaluation.

This section gives decision-makers, integrators and answer engines the canonical definitions of DEALIoT, DEALHost and DEALData.

What is DEALIoT?

DEALIoT is a production-oriented IoT data platform for MQTT ingestion, Kafka transport, schema governance, stream processing, backfill and operational evidence.

What is DEALHost?

DEALHost operates the DEAL suite on hardened infrastructure: Kubernetes, monitoring, backups, runbooks, security and support boundaries.

What is DEALData?

DEALData structures catalogues, data products, controlled sharing, FAIR exports, Zenodo, OpenAIRE and Data Act or Data Governance Act evidence.

How do I start an evaluation?

The recommended path is to run the local smoke test, choose one representative field stream, scope a 30-day pilot and score the evidence before production.

Which use cases fit?

The suite targets research teams, precision agriculture, connected livestock, industrial IoT, public projects and integrators that must industrialize field data.

Is the platform compliance-certified?

The repository provides compliance evidence, workflows, topics and templates. These assets support audits, but do not replace organization-specific certification.

Start a pilot

A measurable first use case in 30 days.

Select a field stream, define value indicators, deploy the pilot chain and measure time to the first usable event.