Communication by the MQTT communication protocol

The MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) is a simple "Internet of Things" communication protocol. It is based on passing messages between clients through the central server – broker.
The client can be of the Publisher type - sending their messages to defined topic (address, topic). The publisher can be for example represented by a sensor or meter.
On the contrary a Subscriber subscribes to receive values from defined topics in order to process such values after receipt.
The client can be a Publisher and Subscriber simultaneously. Thanks to the fact that the clients communicate only with the intermediary (with the server - with the broker), the clients do not have to know the network topology and each others existence – they only need to know how to connect with the broker.

During the login sequence, each client is identified by "ClientID" and then optionally by "Username" and "Password". The SSL/TSL support is not implemented so far in the PROMOTIC system.

The MQTT protocol defines three levels of message confirmation QoS (Quality of Service)

The client of the Publisher type can send data also with Retained flag (0/1 = not retained/retained data on the brokeru) and with DUP flag (0/1 = not repeated/repeated sent messages)

According to the communication encryption level, the MQTT protocol defines usage of 3 network ports: See: Wikipedia: A list of TCP and UDP port numbers used by protocols to run network applications.

Limitation: The PROMOTIC system so far does not support encrypted transmission (supports only port 1883).

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