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MQ Telemetry Transport Protocol for IOT

MQTT protocol is a lightweight, open and simple network protocol for the device communications. It  is  based on the principle of publishing messages and subscribing to topics, or "pub/sub".  The protocol runs over TCP/IP, or over other network protocols that provide ordered, lossless, bi-directional connections. It was designed for the  low-bandwidth, high latency networks in the late 1990s/early 2000s and its support to connect over thousands of clients to a single server. This characteristic is a suite for the devices which has very limited processing powers and limited memory, such as sensors, mobile devices, monitoring devices. Since It provides a common interface for everything, new sensors or devices can integrate very easily with the system.   Message in MQTT is published on topics. These topics are treated as a  hierarchy separate using slash(/) as a separator like in  the file system. Clients can receive messages ...