Webinar: Sparkplug B and OPC UA Over MQTT for Industry 4.0

Interoperability and scalability are key requirements for the implementation of Industry 4.0 application scenarios targeting flexible and resilient production systems. In place of the rigid structures and heterogeneous communication solutions used in Operational Technology (OT) today, loosely coupled systems using standardized interfaces and information models are needed in order to decrease the high manual effort for (re-)configuration. In this regard, the Publish-Subscribe (PubSub) communication paradigm is well suited for the implementation of loosely coupled systems that can be implemented using the MQTT application protocol.

However, MQTT is data agnostic and does not address interoperability on the information layer; the definition of topic trees and payloads, for example, are up to the user. Specifications like Sparkplug B (Sparkplug) and the standard OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) use MQTT as a transport protocol and add such missing features.

In this webinar you will learn:

• How modern, loosely coupled systems can enable application interoperability and scalability
• How Sparkplug B and standard OPC UA use MQTT as a transport protocol to enable Industry 4.0 applications 
• How Sparkplug and OPC UA over MQTT compare for enabling Plug & Work and Condition Monitoring applications.