MQTT Market Trends for 2024: Cloud, Unified Namespace, Sparkplug, Kafka Integration

The lightweight and open IoT messaging protocol MQTT gets adopted more widely across industries. This blog post explores relevant market trends for MQTT: cloud deployments and fully managed services, data governance with unified namespace and Sparkplug B, MQTT vs. OPC-UA debates, and the integration with Apache Kafka for OT/IT data processing in real-time.

(Originally posted on Kai Waehner’s blog: “MQTT Market Trends for 2024: Cloud, Unified Namespace, Sparkplug, Kafka Integration”… Join the data streaming community and stay informed about new blog posts by subscribing to my newsletter)

MQTT Summit in Munich

In December 2023, I attended the MQTT Summit Connack. HiveMQ sponsored the event. The agenda included various industry experts. The talks covered industrial IoT deployments, unified namespace, Sparkplug B, security and fleet management, and use cases for Kafka combined with MQTT like connected vehicles or smart city (my talk).

It was a pleasure to meet many industry peers of the MQTT community, independent consultants, and software vendors. I learned a lot about the adoption of MQTT in the real world, best practices, and a few trade-offs of Sparkplug B. The following sections summarize my trends for MQTT of…