diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d7ff8df..85799e3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ While a similar outcome can be achieved with a side car model - simply write a R
   * Health Check interface
   * Shutdown interface
   * Ability to switch running log levels of your applications
+  * Ability to publish data from your app to the Choria Data Adapters that can convert the data to streaming data systems
   * Standardised configuration
   * TLS using PuppetCA or manual configuration
   * Expose Facts to the Choria discovery system
@@ -251,6 +252,51 @@ func (a *App) Version() string {
 }
 ```
 
+### Publishing Data 
+
+You can publish data from your application to the [Choria Data Adapter](https://choria.io/docs/adapters/) system which can receive the data in a scalable manner and transform it to Streaming Data system.
+
+This is useful for publishing IoT environmental data or other similar data to a network, your data will traverse the network maintained by the backplane and will be secured using PKI and TLS.  
+
+When you start the backplane (full details below) pass the `backplane.StartDataPublisher()` option to `backplane.Run()`.
+
+From your code you can publish any data:
+
+```go
+    // initialize the backplane, full example in "Starting the Server" section
+    opts := []backplane.Option{
+        // other options
+        backplane.StartDataPublisher(),
+    }
+
+    pb, err := backplane.Run(ctx, wg, a.config.Management, opts...)
+    if err != nil {
+        panic(err)
+    }
+
+    // dat is a []byte with any information you wish to publish
+    dat := gatherEnvironmentData()
+
+    // publishes data on a NATS topica called acme.iot
+    pb.DataOutbox() <- &backplane.DataItem{
+        Data: dat,
+        Destination: "acme.iot",
+    }
+```
+
+You can configure the Choria Broker to receive this data and publish it to NATS Streaming:
+
+```ini
+plugin.choria.adapters = iot
+plugin.choria.adapter.iot.type = nats_stream
+plugin.choria.adapter.iot.stream.servers = stan1:4222,stan2:4222
+plugin.choria.adapter.iot.stream.clusterid = prod
+plugin.choria.adapter.iot.ingest.topic = acme.iot
+plugin.choria.adapter.iot.ingest.protocol = reply
+```
+
+This ingest the `acme.iot` topic, rewrite the data and publish it to NATS Streaming `prod` cluster on `stan1:4222` and `stan2:4222`.
+
 ### Configure Choria
 
 You have to supply some basic configuration to the Choria framework, you need to implement the `ConfigProvider` interface, you're welcome to do this yourself but we provide one you can use.  We recommend you use this one so that all backplane managed interface have the same configuration format:
@@ -333,6 +379,7 @@ func (a *App) startBackPlane(ctx context.Context, wg *sync.Waitgroup) error {
             backplane.ManageHealthCheck(a),
             backplane.ManageStopable(a),
             backplane.ManageLogLevel(a),
+            backplane.StartDataPublisher(),
         }
 
         _, err := backplane.Run(ctx, wg, a.config.Management, opts...)
@@ -347,7 +394,7 @@ func (a *App) startBackPlane(ctx context.Context, wg *sync.Waitgroup) error {
 
 Once you call `startBackPlane()` in your startup cycle it will start a Choria instance with the `discovery`, `choria_util` and `backplane` agents, the `backplane` agent will have all the actions listed in the earlier table, your config will be shown in the `info` action and you can discovery it using any of the facts.
 
-If you only supply some of `ManageInfoSource`, `ManagePausable`, `ManageHealthCheck`, `ManageLogLevel` and `ManageStopable` the features of the agent will be selectively disabled as per the table earlier.
+If you only supply some of `ManageInfoSource`, `ManagePausable`, `ManageHealthCheck`, `ManageLogLevel`, `StartDataPublisher` and `ManageStopable` the features of the agent will be selectively disabled as per the table earlier.
 
 All backplane managed services will use the `backplane` agent name, to differentiate the `name` will be used to construct a sub collective name so each app is effectively contained. The upcoming CLI will be built around this design.
 
@@ -496,3 +543,5 @@ Performing info... ✓ 2 / 2
 ```
 
 1 is paused and 1 is not, your logs should also confirm.
+
+Additionally on every `doing work` line data gets published to the NATS network topic `myapp.data` in the Choria format.  You can view these using the a [nats client](https://github.com/nats-io/go-nats/tree/master/examples/nats-sub) or had this been a Choria Broker you could adapt these messages to a NATS Stream using the Choria Adapter Framework.
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diff --git a/backplane/backplane.go b/backplane/backplane.go
index c26ec12..623ff15 100644
--- a/backplane/backplane.go
+++ b/backplane/backplane.go
@@ -35,12 +35,14 @@ type Management struct {
 	factsMu *sync.Mutex
 	log     *logrus.Entry
 	agent   *mcorpc.Agent
+	outbox  chan *DataItem
 }
 
 // Run creates a new instance of the backplane
 func Run(ctx context.Context, wg *sync.WaitGroup, conf ConfigProvider, opts ...Option) (m *Management, err error) {
 	m = &Management{
-		mu: &sync.Mutex{},
+		mu:     &sync.Mutex{},
+		outbox: make(chan *DataItem, 1),
 	}
 
 	m.cfg, err = newConfig("backplane", conf, opts...)
@@ -69,5 +71,12 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, wg *sync.WaitGroup, conf ConfigProvider, opts ...O
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not start backplane agents: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	return
+	if m.cfg.publishdata {
+		err = m.startDataPublisher(ctx, wg)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not start data publisher: %s", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	return m, nil
 }
diff --git a/backplane/config.go b/backplane/config.go
index 2980af3..b08ab57 100644
--- a/backplane/config.go
+++ b/backplane/config.go
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	factInterval time.Duration
 	maxStopDelay time.Duration
 
+	publishdata     bool
 	pausable        Pausable
 	infosource      InfoSource
 	healthcheckable HealthCheckable
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ func newConfig(name string, cfg ConfigProvider, opts ...Option) (c *Config, err
 	c.ccfg.LogLevel = c.loglevel
 	c.ccfg.Choria.UseSRVRecords = false
 	c.ccfg.Choria.MiddlewareHosts = c.brokers
+	c.ccfg.RegistrationCollective = c.appname
 
 	if c.tls != nil {
 		c.ccfg.DisableTLS = false
@@ -220,3 +222,10 @@ func MaxStopDelay(i time.Duration) Option {
 		c.maxStopDelay = i
 	}
 }
+
+// StartDataPublisher starts a publisher for data to the Choria adapter system
+func StartDataPublisher() Option {
+	return func(c *Config) {
+		c.publishdata = true
+	}
+}
diff --git a/backplane/registration.go b/backplane/registration.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ef16c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backplane/registration.go
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+package backplane
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/choria-io/go-choria/server/data"
+)
+
+// DataItem contains a single data message
+type DataItem struct {
+	// Data is the raw data to publish
+	Data []byte
+
+	// Destination let you set custom NATS targets, when this is not set
+	// the TargetAgent will be used to create a normal agent target
+	Destination string
+
+	// TargetAgent lets you pick where to send the data as a request
+	TargetAgent string
+}
+
+// DataOutbox returns the channel to use for publishing data to the network from the backplane
+func (m *Management) DataOutbox() chan *DataItem {
+	return m.outbox
+}
+
+// StartRegistration implements registration.RegistrationDataProvider
+func (m *Management) StartRegistration(ctx context.Context, wg *sync.WaitGroup, interval int, output chan *data.RegistrationItem) {
+	for {
+		select {
+		case msg := <-m.outbox:
+			output <- &data.RegistrationItem{
+				Data:        &msg.Data,
+				Destination: msg.Destination,
+				TargetAgent: msg.TargetAgent,
+			}
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (m *Management) startDataPublisher(ctx context.Context, wg *sync.WaitGroup) error {
+	return m.cserver.RegisterRegistrationProvider(ctx, wg, m)
+}
diff --git a/example/myapp.go b/example/myapp.go
index f6271e3..3f71adc 100644
--- a/example/myapp.go
+++ b/example/myapp.go
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
+	"strconv"
 	"sync"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ type Config struct {
 // a circuit breaker, health check and shutdown backplane
 type App struct {
 	config     *Config
+	bp         *backplane.Management
 	paused     bool
 	configured bool
 }
@@ -43,13 +46,30 @@ func (a *App) work(ctx context.Context, wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
 				continue
 			}
 
-			log.Println(a.config.Name + ": doing work")
+			dat, err := a.data()
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Printf("Could not generate data: %s", err)
+				continue
+			}
+
+			a.bp.DataOutbox() <- &backplane.DataItem{Data: dat, Destination: "myapp.data"}
+
+			log.Println(a.config.Name + ": doing work - published " + string(dat))
 		case <-ctx.Done():
 			return
 		}
 	}
 }
 
+func (a *App) data() ([]byte, error) {
+	d := make(map[string]string)
+	d["name"] = a.config.Name
+	d["timestamp"] = strconv.Itoa(int(time.Now().Unix()))
+	d["work"] = "sample work"
+
+	return json.Marshal(&d)
+}
+
 func main() {
 	if _, err := os.Stat("myapp.yaml"); err != nil {
 		log.Fatal("Cannot find myapp.yaml")
@@ -93,9 +113,10 @@ func main() {
 		backplane.ManageHealthCheck(app),
 		backplane.ManageStopable(app),
 		backplane.ManageLogLevel(app),
+		backplane.StartDataPublisher(),
 	}
 
-	_, err = backplane.Run(ctx, wg, app.config.Management, opts...)
+	app.bp, err = backplane.Run(ctx, wg, app.config.Management, opts...)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("Could not start backplane: %s", err)
 	}