MQ Telemetry Transport Protocol for IoT
MQ Telemetry Transport Protocol for IoT
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MQTT protocol is a lightweight, open and simple network protocol for the device communications. It is based on the principle of publishing messages and subscribing to topics, or "pub/sub". The protocol runs over TCP/IP, or over other network protocols that provide ordered, lossless, bi-directional connections. It was designed for the low-bandwidth, high latency networks in the late 1990s/early 2000s and its support to connect over thousands of clients to a single server. This characteristic is a suite for the devices which has very limited processing powers and limited memory, such as sensors, mobile devices, monitoring devices. Since It provides a common interface for everything, new sensors or devices can integrate very easily with the system.
Two wildcards are available,
+ or
#.
+ can be used as a wildcard for a single level of hierarchy.
- sensors/+/temperature/+
# can be used as a wildcard for all remaining levels of hierarchy.
- sensors/#
- QoS 0 - At most once delivery: With this setting, messages are delivered according to the best effort of the underlying network.
- QoS 1 - At least Once Delivery: For this level of service, the MQTT client or the server would attempt to deliver the message at-least once.But there can be a duplicate message.
- QoS 2 - Exactly once delivery: This is the highest level of Quality of Service. Additional protocol flows ensure that duplicate messages are not delivered to the receiving application.
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