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Role-based access Control (RBAC) is a crucial component of modern software platforms. It provides granular control over access rights and enhances security. Integrating RBAC into the FlowFuse platform brings this level of sophistication to Node-RED, allowing users to manage their environments with precision and confidence. This blog will explore how FlowFuse's RBAC system improves both security and user experience within the Node-RED ecosystem.

About a month ago, a powerful solution became available to the Node-RED community to deal with users and allow multiple to interact with the same dashboard in a personalized manner. It's called the Multli user Dashboard for Node-RED. In this guide, we will provide a step-by-step guide to show you how to secure your dashboard and access and display logged in user information on Dashboard 2.0.

Kafka is one of the most powerful technologies enabling seamless data communication. Many individuals are utilizing it alongside Node-RED for real-time data exchange in their IoT and IIoT applications. However, some users are encountering difficulties in obtaining assistance with Kafka-related queries.

FlowFuse, a leading provider of the low-code end-to-end development platform for industrial applications, and Gallarus Industry Solutions Limited, the leading industry 4.0 integrator in Europe dedicated to digital transformation through the deployment of the Unified Namespace (UNS) digital architecture, today announced an exciting strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to empower businesses with advanced solutions for Industry 4.0 transformation and optimized operational efficiency.

With our latest release of Node-RED Dashboard 2.0, we've made some big improvements to the onboarding experience.

We're seeing over 2,000 people download Dashboard 2.0 per week, and are seeing a great buzz in the community of brand new Node-RED users, experienced Node-RED users that haven't explored a UI solution previously and existing users migrating from Dashboard 1.0.

So, with that in mind, we wanted to offer a new "Getting Started" guide that will help you get up and running with building custom user interfaces and data visualizations in Node-RED.

Citizen development empowers employees to create digital solutions. However, it requires guardrails to ensure data security, operational stability, and compliance. These guardrails are what FlowFuse provides to the Node-RED community to level up their deployments. FlowFuse offers many different security measures for authentication and authorization, which all apply to different scenarios.

In this post we’ll take a look at most of them, specifically for HTTP traffic. We’ll discuss the trade-offs for auditabliltiy, convenience to use as either machine or human, among other factors.

FlowFuse is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed to enhance the experience and capabilities of Node-RED for its users. By focusing on scalability, security, and Dev Ops, FlowFuse aims to remove some of the technical barriers associated with using Node-RED, making it easier for citizen developers to automate tasks, process data, and create applications. In this blog post, we will discuss the differences between a FlowFuse instance and a FlowFuse device instance while highlighting how FlowFuse addresses scalability challenges in Node-RED deployments.

Have you ever wondered how manufacturing and automotive industries can effectively manage the vast amount of real-time data generated by sensors and systems throughout the production process? A few years back, these industries faced major obstacles in handling the large volume of real-time data produced by sensors placed across the production line. Even today many industries continue to grapple with similar challenges. Traditional data management systems struggle to process and analyze this data in real-time, leading to inefficiencies in operational activities and decision-making. To address these challenges, various manufacturing and automobile plants have embraced technologies like Apache Kafka.

Today, with the latest FlowFuse release, an important change was made that updates the resource limits for our open-source, self-managed FlowFuse server tier. This change does not affect FlowFuse Cloud users in any way.

There are two common reasons why new languages come about. They provide a feature missing in the existing programming languages, or it is a tool that is easier to learn and use. The latter often functions like a swiss army knife with each iteration including more and more tools. The journey of low-code is like a swiss army knife, the perfect tool for the Citizen Developer.

With Node-RED 4.0 coming soon, I wanted to take a look at what users can expect to see with the new release, as well as some of the new features we're working on.

Practitioners using Node-RED often find themselves in a situation where a firewall is deployed in their organization. This network configuration is a fact of life and is generally not controlled by the same people using Node-RED. Given security reigns supreme in Industrial IoT (IIoT), and a firewall offers a lot of benefits, we anticipate it will be deployed more often in the future, and as such it’s good to understand how you can get the most out of Node-RED when deployed behind a firewall.

In January 2013, I could have never foreseen that my fun little proof-of-concept project would become Node-RED, an open source low-code environment with millions of deployments in IoT and automation.

It's quite straightforward to pass plenty of useful data with each message (msg) in your flows. Not only can you store information in msg.payload, but you can also place information in any other named object, for instance, msg.store.

As we embark on the journey toward a more interconnected industrial environment, the emergence of a Unified Namespace (UNS) as the fundamental framework for facilitating communication among various systems and devices has become a focal point of discussion. I've often been queried about the role of Node-RED in a UNS architecture. To illuminate this, let's delve into an exemplary UNS architecture, underlining the classic use cases for Node-RED within this framework.

KepserverEX, often referred to as Kepware, is an OPC server that has been the important tool many manufacturing companies have used on their digital transformation journey. It plays an important role for many to extract data from PLCs, Programmable Logic Controllers, without having to directly interact with them.