MQTT connector driver on GitHub project accelerates real-time industrial interoperability

Flexxbotics has released an enhanced MQTT connector driver within the company's open-source project on GitHub. The updated MQTT connector driver expands real-time industrial messaging capabilities to support scalable, event-driven data pipelines and normalised interoperability across heterogeneous factory environments.

Released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, the driver provides production-ready publish/subscribe connectivity for streaming machine telemetry, process events, quality data, and operational metrics between factory equipment, edge systems, enterprise software, and cloud platforms.

The update standardises topic structures, data payloads, security configurations, and performance tuning to operationalise MQTT consistently across industrial deployments. It normalises vendor-specific implementations and equips non-MQTT-enabled factory assets with the ability to connect and communicate using MQTT, avoiding costly point-to-point custom integrations.

"Modern manufacturing depends on real-time data flowing securely between factory machines, automation, manufacturing systems, and AI repositories," said Tyler Bouchard, CEO and co-founder of Flexxbotics. "By delivering a hardened, normalised MQTT connector as open-source infrastructure, we're enabling automation teams to scale event-driven factories without one-off custom code or fragmented data architectures."

The enhanced MQTT transformer supports high-throughput telemetry streaming, reliable event delivery, secure TLS-based communications, and bi-directional data exchange for closed-loop optimisation and autonomous process control. It is designed to integrate natively with PLCs, robots, plant equipment, inspection systems, historians, MES platforms, and AI analytics pipelines.

"MQTT is increasingly the real-time data stream in modern factories, but many plant assets cannot support the topic structures, payload formats, and security implementations required for factory-wide deployments," said Tyler Modelski, CTO and co-founder of Flexxbotics. "This update normalises industrial MQTT into a production-ready connector driver that works consistently across vendors, sites, and systems, making real-time interoperability practical for autonomous manufacturing."

The company's open-source project provides industrial-grade connector drivers – called Transformers – for over 1,000 makes and models of factory equipment and automation systems. Built using its software-defined automation (SDA), the project allows many-to-many interoperability across open industrial protocols and proprietary vendor interfaces to accelerate manufacturing digitalisation and targeted AI introduction.

The enhanced MQTT transformer is available now as part of the Flexxbotics GitHub repository.