About the Cobradash platform

What the Cobradash platform does, how it is hosted and secured, and the scale it supports.

Cobradash is the cloud platform that collects, visualises and exports the data from your Cobra Climate sensors. It is a purpose-built management tool for indoor climate, designed to be deployed quickly with very little IT involvement.

What you can do with it

  • Read sensor data from multiple sensors, across multiple locations and countries.
  • View data real-time or as a graph.
  • Export data as PDF or CSV.
  • Compare trends and changes in baselines for large numbers of devices with very little effort.

Hosting

  • Cloud-based, hosted in Europe (Amsterdam).
  • The SMQTT broker and the application run on separate servers.
  • Access is secured over SSL.
  • The database is MySQL. No personal data is stored.
  • On special request the software can be installed on-premise, though this somewhat limits flexibility and application management.

How it is built

  • Sensors connect to the message server over SMQTT (port 8883/TCP). An organisation — or even an individual device — can use separate credentials to connect.
  • The message server communicates with the backend through an API. The backend is built with Laravel.
  • End users access the frontend over port 443 (SSL). The frontend runs on Nuxt behind an Nginx server, deployed via Laravel Forge.

Scale and availability

Capacity Supported
Locations more than 100
Rooms more than 500
Sensors per instance more than 1000
Availability / uptime 99.9%
Compatibility open standard SMQTT
Ports SMQTT port 8883/TCP

For the addresses to whitelist, see Network requirements and connectivity.


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