# Platform Overview

The Device Agent platform is a commercial solution for running and managing device agents at scale on your own infrastructure. It supports device connectivity, natural language and voice interaction, scheduled tasks, workflows, tools, and A2A multi-agent collaboration, with resource scaling, centralized monitoring, device AI credits, and license management for enterprise production environments.

## Use Cases

Choose a platform solution when your business moves from validating features to long-term production operation, needs a deployment on enterprise servers or a private cloud, and must support growing numbers of devices, agent requests, and automation tasks. Plan device agent operation and management around your deployment environment and workload.

## Platform Advantages

- **Private deployment**: Run on your own infrastructure, with a deployment solution planned around your existing network, deployment practices, and operational requirements.
- **Operation at scale**: Centrally run and manage large numbers of device agents, with request-handling and agent-execution resources configured separately. Size the deployment around device counts, request volume, and model-service capacity, and expand runtime resources as your workload grows.
- **Centralized monitoring**: Use [Monitoring](./monitoring.md) to view platform health, agent requests, and AI usage alongside connection, session, and response-latency metrics. These help operators investigate failed requests, usage changes, and interaction delays.
- **Usage and license management**: Configure [Device AI Credits](./ai-credits.md) and pricing, and inspect or adjust device balances. Use [License Management](./license.md) to view the platform's request allowance and license validity, and arrange capacity upgrades or renewals as needed.

## Start Using the Platform

1. Contact us to confirm the deployment environment and workload. Prepare device connectivity, model services, and speech services using [Deployment and Configuration](./deployment.md).
2. After delivery, open the console address provided and check service configuration and platform health.
3. Check request capacity and validity in [License Management](./license.md). Configure [Device AI Credits](./ai-credits.md) when you also need a usage budget for each device.
4. Follow [Define a Device Agent](../usage/create-agent.md) and [IoT Platform Integration](../integrations/iot-platform.md) or [SDK Access](../device-access/sdk-generation.md) to connect your workload, then verify text or voice interaction.
5. Use [Monitoring](./monitoring.md) to inspect operation, and plan backups, scaling, and upgrades with [Operations](./operations.md).

## Get a Deployment Solution

For production deployment needs or information about platform solutions and commercial licensing, [contact us](mailto:contact@emqx.io). Share your planned device count, agent use cases, expected request volume, and deployment environment to help assess deployment capacity and licensing needs.