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The first wave of the Internet involved connecting people to each other and people to information.

The next wave of the Internet will involve connecting the physical world to the Internet, and machines to each other (M2M – Machine to machine). See An Introduction to IOT

How will these devices be managed and monitored? What will happen to the data.

IOT MQTT and Node-Red

Node-Red is a flow based programming tool that is being used for monitoring and managing IOT devices and systems.

Node-Red makes it easy to create IOT systems with little or no programming knowledge using a web browser interface and could easily become the WordPress of IOT.

MQTT is also fast becoming the de facto IOT messaging protocol and having a working knowledge ot this protocol will be essential for building IOT systems.

This site will focus on Node-Red and building IOT systems using it.
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Shared subscriptions provide for client load balancing. With normal subscriptions(non shared subscriptions) if,for example,  4 clients subscribe to a topic and a client published a message on that topic then that message is sent to all  4 subscribing clients.

With a shared subscription then the message would only be sent to one of the subscribing clients. (more…)

MQTTv5 Topics are essentially the same as those in v3.1.1 (See Understanding MQTT topics) ,but two new features have been introduced. They are:

• Topic aliases
• Shared Topics

In this tutorial we will be covering topic aliases. (more…)

Properties (MQTTv5) are probably one of the most important additions to the MQTT protocol, and are available in most MQTT message types.

The property fields are dependent upon message type, so a CONNECT message will have different property fields than a PUBLISH message. (more…)

I have developed a few flows for third parties that have mainly involved decoding Modbus data.

However I have never used Modbus in a live environment and needed to get familiar with the basics in order to develop and test these flows.

Fortunately the people I worked with had a very good understanding of Modbus, but not of node-red, JavaScript and MQTT

These are my working notes from my efforts to create these flows and in particular an MQTT to Modbus bridge.

If you are new to Modbus you may find them useful. (more…)

The MQTT protocol allows messages with a maximum size of 268435455 bytes approx 260MB.

This is obviously a very large message size and one that most brokers,especially public brokers, will restrict. (more…)