MQTT

Topics

• What is MQTT?
• General architecture
• How to connect Citect to MQTT devices
• Live demo

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What is it?

• Message Queuing Telemetry Transport

• Open source
• Lightweight
• Publish/Subscribe messaging
• Asynchronous
• M2M (Machine to Machine) protocol

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General architecture
MQTT Broker
• MQTT Broker
• MQTT Clients
• Publisher
• Subscriber
• Publisher / Subscriber Lamp 1
Presence
Sensor
Energy
Lamp 2
Monitoring
System

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General architecture
MQTT Broker
• Topics structure
• Hierarchical
• “/” delimited

Lamp 1
• Wildcards
Presence
• Multi-level “#” Sensor
• Single-level “+” Energy
Lamp 2
Monitoring
System

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General architecture

• Quality of Service (QoS)

• At most once
• At least once
• Exactly once

• Retain option

• Last will

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MQTT • Text

General architecture • JSON

• Packet structure
• On top of TCP layer
• Unstructured payload

• Security
• No native encryption
• SSL at TCP level
• Ports 1883 (default) and 8883 (SSL)

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How to connect Citect to MQTT devices
Citect System Platform
• Publishing Citect tags to MQTT topics OPC DA Server OI Gateway

• Citect OPC DA server Citect

Runtime
• WW System Platform OI Gateway (< 32 tags free) OPC DA MQTT
Publisher

• Subscribing to topics from MQTT devices Citect Kepware

OPC UA Driver OPC UA Server
• Citect OPC UA driver
Citect
• Kepware OPC UA server with MQTT driver Runtime
OPC UA MQTT
Subscriber

• SoftwareToolbox CogentDataHub
For Internal and Partner Use Only
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