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Overview

The Stone-Age.io Platform is a comprehensive, single-binary toolkit designed to build, manage, and scale private IoT and Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) applications.

By combining the simplicity of a monolithic backend with the power of modern messaging and mesh networking, the platform provides a "Control Plane in a Box" for organizations that want to build, and manage distributed infrastructure without the overhead of cloud-locked microservices.

The Problem: Brittle & Complex Infrastructure

Current IoT and edge computing solutions typically fall into two categories:

  1. The Cloud Trap: Heavy vendor lock-in with proprietary APIs, unpredictable egress costs, and the requirement that data must leave your premises to be useful.
  2. The Microservices Swamp: Fragile stacks consisting of a dozen different open-source tools (VPNs, MQTT brokers, databases, auth services) that are difficult to secure, maintain, and multi-tenant.

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and System Integrators (SIs), these hurdles make it difficult to offer a professional, private, and scalable platform to their customers.

The Solution: The Moden Radio Network Analogy

Think of the Stone-Age.io Platform like a modern digital radio network.

In the past, a System Integrator would build out physical radio towers (infrastructure) and provide radios (things) to their customers. Each customer could have their own private channel (multi-tenancy) but share the same reliable backbone.

The Stone-Age.io Platform applies this concept to the modern edge:

  • The Towers: NATS and Nebula provide the resilient airwaves and secure tunnels.
  • The Channels: NATS Accounts and Subjects provide isolated logic for different tenants.
  • The Radios: Devices and Applications that can speak NATS, MQTT, or even just plain HTTP.
  • The Dispatcher: The Stone Age Console (powered by PocketBase) orchestrates the entire system from a single pane of glass.

Target Audience

  • Managed Service Providers (MSPs): Build your own branded RMM (Remote Monitoring and Management) or IoT platform for hundreds of clients using a single deployment.
  • System Integrators (SIs): Deploy reliable, edge-first logic for smart buildings, industrial automation, or fleet management.
  • Enterprise IT: Manage internal distributed infrastructure across multiple buildings/offices/factories or cloud providers while maintaining absolute data sovereignty.

Key Value Propositions

1. Single Binary Simplicity

Built on top of PocketBase, the entire platform (database, identity, API, and embedded UI) is delivered as a single executable binary. Use it however you want, bare metal, Docker, Kubernetes etc. No built in Docker-compose hell, no complex database migrations, and no "it works on my machine" deployment bugs.

2. Built-in Multi-Tenancy

Multi-tenancy is the foundational core. Every Organization created in the UI automatically provisions an isolated NATS Account and a private Nebula Certificate Authority (CA). Data and network isolation are enforced at the infrastructure level.

3. Edge-First Connectivity

By leveraging NATS.io for messaging and Nebula for overlay networking, the platform excels in unreliable environments. Things connect via outbound-only traffic, punching through firewalls and CGNATs (LTE/5G/Satellite/etc.) without requiring complex port forwarding or static IPs.

4. No Vendor Lock-in

The Stone-Age.io Platform is built on top of standard, industry-proven protocols. Your data lives in a local SQLite database, your messages travel over NATS, and your long-term metrics are handled by whatever time-series database you choose (e.g., VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, Postgres). You own the stack from top to bottom.

5. Grug-Brained Development

We believe complexity is the enemy of reliability. Stone-Age.io is designed to be understood by a single human. We prefer clear Go code, reactive Vue components, and straightforward YAML rules over abstract magic and sprawling service meshes.