# Potential uses of Nodered

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**Created:** [10 August 2020 04:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/potential-uses-of-nodered/31363 "2020-08-10T04:42:42Z")\
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Potential uses is something different than a question of embedding.  
What answer are you looking for ?

node-red runs on nodejs, if you can embed nodejs in a java application, you can probably do it (albeit with a lot of work)

If you want to know what node-red can be used for, this covers a wide range, but if you have one application/hardware and you want them to talk to some other application/hardware (and they currently can't) - node-red can help. See it as a "glue" between hardware/software.

Last year [there was a survey](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/2019-community-survey-results/12664), which may be of interest.

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