Practical guides on MQTT, managed brokers and connected products from the ConnectMQ team.
OEE, OOE and TEEP share the same performance and quality factors but measure against different time bases. This comparison works through one example and lists the MQTT signals each metric needs.
Send email alerts when MQTT values cross a limit, without flooding your inbox. This tutorial builds a Node-RED flow with hysteresis, a cooldown, a silent-device watchdog and SMTP setup, and compares it with ConnectMQ's built-in threshold alert rules.
Throughput planning for MQTT comes down to a few formulas and one honest measurement. Learn how to estimate inbound and outbound messages per second, account for peaks, and map the result to a broker plan.
A practical guide to detecting anomalies in sensor streams: which methods fit which signals, whether to run them on the device, the edge or in the cloud, and how MQTT ties detectors and alerts together.
Wire an SCD41 CO2 sensor and a PMS5003 particulate sensor to an ESP32, publish readings as JSON over MQTT, and set ventilation alerts when the air gets stale or dusty.
A realistic look at where generative AI helps on the factory floor, from shift summaries to troubleshooting assistants, and how to ground every answer in live machine data streamed over MQTT.
Go from an unboxed ESP32 to a secure, cloud-connected temperature sensor: Arduino IDE setup, Wi-Fi, a DHT22, MQTT publish and subscribe, remote LED control and TLS on port 8883.
How machine learning adds prediction, anomaly detection and optimization to digital twins fed by MQTT data, with an architecture, a working anomaly detector and practical pitfalls.
What sensor fusion is, how complementary and Kalman filters combine noisy sensors, when to fuse at the edge versus in the cloud, and working ESP32 and Python examples that publish fused values over MQTT.
A step-by-step dual-credential strategy for rotating MQTT usernames and passwords across a fleet: stage the new credential, switch with fallback, verify and only then revoke the old one.
Use the Raspberry Pi's built-in Bluetooth, the bleak library and paho-mqtt to scan BLE sensor advertisements, decode temperature and humidity, and publish throttled readings to MQTT.
A practical PubSubClient tutorial for ESP32 and ESP8266: install the library, connect to an MQTT broker, handle callbacks, size the buffer, tune keep alive and move to TLS with real credentials.
MQTT and CoAP both target constrained IoT devices but take opposite approaches: brokered pub/sub over TCP versus RESTful request/response over UDP. Here is how they compare and when to use each.
Forty MQTT interview questions with concise answers covering fundamentals, QoS, sessions, retained messages, Last Will, MQTT 5 and security, plus ways to practice each concept on broker.connectmq.com.
An MQTT broker and a message queue both sit between producers and consumers, but they deliver messages in fundamentally different ways. Learn the semantics of each and when a cloud MQTT broker is the right building block.
Where your broker runs decides a large share of end-to-end MQTT latency. Learn what contributes to delay, how to measure round trips from your own sites, and how to choose a deployment location.
How many bytes does an MQTT message really cost? Work through connect, keep alive and publish overhead at each QoS level, add TCP and TLS, and build a monthly data estimate for cellular IoT devices.
Build an edge vision pipeline on an NVIDIA Jetson: run GPU-accelerated detection, publish compact JSON results and device health over MQTT with TLS, and run it as a service that survives reboots.
A hands-on tutorial on IoT time series forecasting: capture sensor data from MQTT, resample it, compare a statistical model with a machine learning model, backtest honestly and publish forecasts back to the broker.
Install Mosquitto on a Raspberry Pi, lock it down with passwords and a sensible listener config, test it with mosquitto_pub and mosquitto_sub, and learn when a local broker should bridge to a cloud broker.
Structure an ESP32 PlatformIO MQTT project with separate dev and production environments, broker settings injected at build time, secrets kept out of version control and pinned library versions.
Turn an ESP32 and a 3.3 V RS485 transceiver into a small Modbus RTU master that polls meters and sensors, scales register values and publishes them as JSON over MQTT.
A practical comparison of running IoT models on devices versus in the cloud, with a decision checklist and a hybrid architecture where edge results flow over MQTT to cloud models.
How remaining useful life prediction works, which model families exist, what data history each needs from MQTT-connected assets, and how to publish RUL estimates with uncertainty.
There are five common ways to host an MQTT broker, each with different effort, cost and control. This comparison explains them side by side and shows which fits which project.
Industry 5.0 does not replace Industry 4.0. It adds human-centric, sustainable and resilient goals on top of the same connected technologies. This comparison explains the differences and why live plant data remains the foundation for both.
An IIoT edge gateway connects machines that speak Modbus, OPC UA or proprietary protocols to MQTT and the cloud. Learn its core roles, common architectures and how to choose the right one.
How to build an HVAC digital twin that mirrors air handling units and chillers in real time, using BACnet-to-MQTT gateways, a cloud MQTT broker and simple Python analytics for energy optimization.
Twelve practical digital twin examples from factories, power grids, buildings, cities and hospitals, each broken down into the data sources, update rates and topic structure that make it work.
Tablets, smartwatches and line displays become far more useful when they receive live events. Learn connected worker use cases, the MQTT topic design and a browser client that receives tasks over secure WebSocket.
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