18 Building Smarter Planet Solutions with MQTT and IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry
MQTT-S clients connect to a gateway that performs the protocol translation between MQTT
and MSTT-S. The MQTT-S clients are often used to monitor physical or environmental
conditions such as temperature, sound, vibration, pressure, or motion.
1.4.3 MQTT and sensors
The MQTT protocol has special applicability when used with remote sensing devices.
Sensors
Sensors measure or otherwise determine, or sense, particular parameters of a device or
system and report it in a manner that is understandable to humans or other devices or
systems. The simplest examples might be an old-style clinical thermometer, which senses
human body heat and reports it with the rising or falling ...