QUICK & EASY - MQTT! QUICKLY CONNECT PLCS TO CLOUD APPLICATIONS

The world is drowning in IoT devices. Are you using connected diapers for the new baby? Been to a barn lately? They use Moocall, the pregnant cow alert system. Throwing out that can of Coke? It’s likely that your talking trash can will remind you to recycle it and maybe report you if you don’t. 

That technology is not just for commercial and personal use. More and more of it is coming to a factory floor near you. You won’t even be able to get away from it at the local pub. There are IoT beer taps that push data to the Cloud. Can your spouse get a report on how many beers you drank?

This crazy, connected world increasingly depends on connectivity, both inside the plant and outside of it. And an awful lot of that connectivity depends on the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. 

This article presents a brief introduction to MQTT followed by a discussion of how to use MQTT on the factory floor and a platform for connecting your factory floor devices to cloud and enterprise applications using MQTT.