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MQTT Sparkplug
EMQ MQTT Sparkplug solution
The extended open interoperability protocol based on MQTT is specially designed for industrial information systems. It reduces the cost of system maintenance, and is a true plug-and-play IIoT solution for Industry 4.0
Background
Unified industrial system infrastructure
Sparkplug unifies the MQTT state management, MQTT topics namespace and MQTT load messages, so that each system of the Sparkplug architecture can discover each other and exchange messages without any message parsing and transformation.
High scalability
Application software and industrial devices that follow the Sparkplug specification can be easily integrated in same infrastructure, increasing the system scalability. Especially suitable for distributed applications of Industry 4.0.
Plug n Play solution
The MQTT pub-sub architecture reduces the connection complexity over the protocols like OPCUA which use client-server architecture. That makes Sparkplug to be Plug n Play solution for industrial information system.
Architecture
EMQX MQTT broker or cluster must present in the infrastructure and will manage all MQTT message traffic. Devices and sensors through the EoN node can communicate with Application node such as SCADA systems, historical records and analysis programs. EoN node will assist some “data polling” devices to be smarter and to report data in asynchronous way.
Capabilities
MQTT Sparkplug B protocol compliant
EMQ broker server and cluster are complying with MQTT v3.1.1 and MQTT 5 protocol required by Sparkplug B specification.
High performance MQTT server
EMQ broker is a world’s leading high performance, business critical, cloud native, and powerful SQL-based IoT processing MQTT server.
Various Deployment Option
EMQ has the ability to deploy on-premise, on Microsoft Azure or AWS, or EMQX Cloud.
Seamless integration with other EMQ products
EMQ offers a series of Sparkplug ready EMQ products like Neuron, Nanomq, and MQTTX which have seamless integration with EMQ broker.
Sparkplug B simulation tool
EMQ offers a powerful tool MQTTX to simulate the Sparkplug communication in infrastructure for application deployment.
Related Products
EMQX
EMQX broker by starting itself a plugin can be used as an EoN node to publish Sparkplug messages to the topics that conform to Sparkplug specification.
Neuron
Neuron will pack various data collected from industrial devices into Sparkplug messages and send them to the topics that conform to Sparkplug specification.
NanoMQ
Nanomq can be used as an EoN node to publish Sparkplug messages to the topics that conform to Sparkplug specification.
MQTTX
MQTTX will automatically generate some Sparkplug messages and deliver to other Sparkplug systems such as ERP / MES / SCADA to simulate the Sparkplug communication.
