# What Relay Is: An Overview

<div><figure><img src="https://2387635908-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FL7dimlztFKGWYQIaJ9DP%2Fuploads%2FWlvn5wAGO16hiu5ngCqO%2FDouble-Straight-On.png?alt=media&#x26;token=4ca58072-2c22-4ac2-842d-ca52cdb47324" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>RelayX</p></figcaption></figure> <figure><img src="https://2387635908-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FL7dimlztFKGWYQIaJ9DP%2Fuploads%2F4xUhRazmcjRwrL3H9qoQ%2FRelay%2Bduo-pile-lights.png?alt=media&#x26;token=550c2108-2e34-4736-9bf5-5c07a9a365a7" alt="" width="375"><figcaption><p>Relay+</p></figcaption></figure></div>

Relay is a hardware-based platform for voice and mobile IoT applications. As an enterprise-first platform, it brings a modern software stack, an easy-to-use programming interface, and a quick path to integration. The goal of Relay is to enable your active workers to have two-way connections to the tools and people in the rest of your organization. And to do so with high capability, easy deployment, and low expense.

Relay's first success was in the voice communications space, with its push-to-talk capabilities and built-in connectivity. As a smart device, Relay can do more than push-to-talk communications. In the following sections we explain the "more".

### Jump right in

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