Case Study: Vivint achieves a scalable, high-performance, extensible IoT smart‑home platform supporting millions of devices with MongoDB

MongoDB Evenings Denver Building and Scaling the Internet of Things with MongoDB at Vivint

Vivint, a smart‑home company, set out to mainstream the Internet of Things with a purpose‑built platform that had to be performant and highly extensible for a rapidly evolving industry. Within a year the platform needed to support the integration of millions of devices, creating design and scaling challenges that required new approaches and hard‑won lessons.

Vivint chose MongoDB as the backbone for its IoT platform to deliver the scalability, performance, and flexibility required for massive device growth and rapid feature evolution. The result was a production-ready platform capable of integrating millions of devices while remaining extensible for future requirements, informed by practical lessons about building and scaling IoT systems.

Vivint

Nicholas Brown

Director of Software Architecture