Eclipse Sparkplug B & Unified Namespace (UNS) Edge Gateway
Complete Sparkplug B specification support (ISO/IEC 20237) for bridging OT machine data from Siemens, Beckhoff, and Rockwell PLCs into modern Unified Namespace architectures (Ignition, HiveMQ, EMQX).
Sparkplug B Capabilities
- Automated Birth & Death Certificates: Automatic NBIRTH, DBIRTH, NDEATH, and DDEATH MQTT LWT lifecycle management.
- Report-by-Exception Protobuf Encoding: Compact binary Protobuf payloads reduce factory WAN bandwidth by up to 80% vs raw JSON.
- Store & Forward Compatibility: Historical sequence numbers preserved during broker outages.
[pipeline]
format = "sparkplug_b"
[mqtt.sparkplug]
group_id = "Plant1"
edge_node_id = "Line1"
device_id = "PackagingCell"
publish_death_on_exit = true