MQTT with FairCom EDGE

MQTT overview

MQTT is a lightweight messaging protocol intended for constrained devices with limited/unreliable bandwidth, and has become the de facto standard for Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT communication. It implements the pub/sub pattern, with clients publishing messages to topics on a broker and/or subscribing to topics on a broker to receive messages.

MQTT clients can be embedded in sensors, actuators, gadgets, appliances and machines – enabling everything from smart homes (e.g., lights and security systems) and smart cities (e.g., parking meters and traffic lights) to smart factories (e.g., machines and robots) and smart farms (e.g., weather stations and crop monitors). MQTT brokers are typically deployed at the edge and/or in the cloud.

FairCom EDGE

FairCom EDGE combines an MQTT broker with a web server and a database, making it the world’s first converged IoT/Industrial IoT hub intended for edge deployments – whether in a retail store, on a factory floor or at a transit station. It can aggregate messages, both MQTT and OPC UA, sent by connected devices and publish them to other MQTT brokers in the cloud (e.g., AWS IoT Core), or to ThingWorx.

MQTT Explorer, a built-in web UI, makes it easy to configure and manage MQTT topics. In addition, customers can take advantage of the internal web server and REST APIs to extend FairCom EDGE by embedding custom web applications/dashboards. Further, messages are automatically parsed and persisted to internal database tables, allowing them to be analyzed with BI/reporting tools and standard SQL.

FairCom EDGE features