MQTT

Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is an IoT protocol MQTT is used in applications with thousands of sensors. MQTT is efficient in terms of bandwidth, battery, and resources. MQTT uses a publish/subscribe model.

Web: https://mqtt.org

The 3 main parts of a MQTT system is:

MQTT Broker: Server, or the hart of any MQTT system
MQTT Publishers: Clients that Write/Publish Data
MQTT Subscribers: Clients that Read/Subscribe to Data

See Figure below.

MQTT has become the defacto IoT communication protocol. This means if you want to work with IoT projects, you will sooner or later need to use this protocol.

For more details and practical examples regarding MQTT, see the resources below.

Introduction to MQTT with Practical Examples:

MQTT (YouTube) + PowerPoint (PDF)

MQTT with Python

Python is an open source and cross-platform programming language, that has become increasingly popular over the last ten years. It was first released in 1991. CPython is the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Written in C, CPython is the default and most widely-used implementation of the language.

Python is a mult-purpose programming languages (due to its many extensions), examples are scientific computing and calculations, simulations, web development, etc. LabVIEW Resources.

MQTT with Python (YouTube) + PowerPoint (PDF)