In this Sparkplug Essentials series, we will introduce the industry-standard protocol MQTT Sparkplug. We will explain why it is different from other communication protocols, and how companies benefit from Sparkplug in their Industrial IoT use cases, making it one of the biggest trends in connectivity.

Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 are key trends in the manufacturing industry. Many shopfloor operators in various industries are looking for efficiency gains through digitization. Connecting devices and improving the overall equipment efficiency in an industrial environment are major goals for many company leaders. But there has been no industry-wide common language between devices, machines, and software applications for a long time. A protocol called OPC-UA has been a promising candidate to provide this interoperability. But due to its complexity, heavyweight, and lack of easy integration, it turned out to be not the silver bullet everyone was waiting for.

At the same time a small protocol called MQTT, enabling the device to cloud communication with minimal latency and maximal throughput, even in constraint environments, lived up to its expectations. Providing the highest efficiency and very easy integration MQTT basically conquered the world.

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Some advantages of MQTT
- extremely lightweight
- ideal match for industrial use cases

But it is very generic and therefore not suitable for plug&play interoperability. And that´s where Sparkplug comes into play.

👉 What is MQTT Sparkplug?

Sparkplug is a specification that builds upon MQTT and provides plug&play interoperability for industrial IoT use cases.

Sparkplug is an open-source software specification that provides MQTT clients the framework to seamlessly integrate data from their applications, sensors, devices, and gateways within the MQTT infrastructure in a bi-directional and interoperable way.

To have a common language for the IIoT, the Sparkplug specification defines the following three goals:

- Define an MQTT topic namespace
- Define MQTT state management
- Define the MQTT payload

👉 Conclusion

While MQTT is extremely versatile and can be used in all kinds of use cases, Sparkplug fills the gap to make this combination the perfect match for the manufacturing industry.

*** Chapters and Table of Content ***

00:00 Introduction
00:44 Requirements of IIoT and Industry 4.0
01:33 OPC UA compared to MQTT Sparkplug
04:11 What is MQTT Sparkplug?
05:17 Announcement of Sparkplug Essentials part 2


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