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In our post What Is MQTT? we briefly touched on the Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub) architecture in MQTT. In this post we will go into a lot more detail on what Pub/Sub is, how it works, and why it enables MQTT to be one of the lightest weight and lowest bandwidth protocols available today. Typical Protocols: Polling Most industrial protocols, inc... Read More

In our post explaining MQTT we are referring to the “standard” MQTT specification. This version of the specification is generalized and can be applied to any use case. The specifics of a topic format are up to the user to manage, and the payloads you can send over are essentially free form. This is great for general MQTT adoption, making it fl... Read More

MQTT is a communication protocol typically used to send data from various devices or equipment to other devices, equipment, or software systems. It was originally designed with oil and gas pump stations in mind. The original goal of MQTT was to provide a way to send data from critical assets, typically located in not well connected locations, o... Read More

MQTT has been around for a long time. Many people are finding out about it for the first time. While it can be an extremely powerful tool across many use cases and industries, it is also a dense topic to learn. There are a lot of tutorials out there showing you how to accomplish a specific task in a particular scenario. If you aren’t trying to... Read More