Introduction
What PNeX is and why it exists
Early beta (0.1.0)
PNeX is in beta — very much so. Most features are maintainer-tested on a real bench, none are community-validated yet. Great for testing and contributing; don't run a critical process on it yet. See the roadmap for the real state of each feature.
PNeX (Platform Nexus) is an open-source industrial IoT and SCADA platform written entirely in Rust. It is the crossroads of the tools industrial teams already know — the device management of ThingsBoard, the firmware experience of ESPHome, the visual flow programming of Node-RED — rebuilt as a single, coherent, memory-frugal product with an integrated AI assistant.
The short version
- One platform, one language. The server, the apps (web, Linux, Windows, Android), the flow runtime, the firmware tooling and the thermophysics engine are all Rust, in a single workspace.
- Self-hosted, two tiers. Run it on a single SQLite file for a workshop, or scale to PostgreSQL with S3-compatible object storage for a plant.
- Three ways to drive devices. Today, connected mode: flows drive devices through the server, for non-critical uses. Coming: autonomous devices that get their configuration cast from PNeX and keep regulating — and collecting metrics — through server or internet outages. Later: a device-to-device mesh (zenoh-pico, OpenThread) whose topology is configured in PNeX.
- AI built in, not bolted on. An integrated assistant reads your telemetry, drafts flows, and helps write functions — inside the app.
Who is it for?
- Makers and home users who want to wire an ESP32, automate it and see their data on their own server — no vendor cloud, no subscription.
- Teams that run industrial processes, energy systems, or building fleets, and who want the whole stack — device to dashboard — without assembling five different products and their YAML files.
Read the manifesto for the full story of why everything was rebuilt in Rust.
License
PNeX is free software under the MIT license.