How To Send Data To AWS IoT Platform Using Node-Red & MQTT

October 10, 2019 Industrial IoT

Have you ever wondered what platform to use for building your IIoT solution?

You’re not alone.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of IoT platforms you could use which means it can be challenging to choose for a lot of people.

I’ve built a fair share of IIoT concepts on major platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. This has led me to realise that IoT cloud platforms are becoming more of a commodity.

They all have the same component structure, if not exact replicas of each other. At least as far as IoT is concerned. So you could literally pick one and go.

However, what really requires your attention is understanding how you can be able to get the data out of your plant equipment. Because this is almost unique for everyone. There are few plants that have the same pieces of equipment, in the same configuration and serving the same purpose.

While there’s unlimited ways to do it, In the video below I demonstrate how to collect data from an Opto 22 legacy device that talks Modbus TCP.

I’m using Schneider Electric ‘s IIoT Core Box as a gateway that provides an interface between the plant device and Amazon AWS IoT Cloud Platform. TheIIoT Gateway sends the data to the cloud by hosting an MQTTclient on Node-Red that publishes the data to AWS MQTT broker.

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