Unified Namespace - IoT Digital Twin PLM

OPC UA Companion Specifications as MCP Tools: Wiring Industrial Semantics into AI Agents (2026)

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO September 19, 2026TechNo Comments

OPC UA has 400+ companion specifications of industrial semantics. How to expose them to AI agents as MCP tools and RAG corpora - architecture, pitfalls and safety.

Sparkplug B vs Plain MQTT Topics: Do You Actually Need Sparkplug? (2026)

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO August 13, 2026iiotNo Comments

Sparkplug B 3.0 vs plain MQTT topic design in 2026: a decision guide on when the extra schema, state, and tooling actually pay off.

Unified Namespace (UNS) Reference Architecture for Industrial IoT in 2026

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO August 13, 2026iiot1 Comment

The Unified Namespace reference architecture for industrial IoT in 2026: MQTT Sparkplug B backbone, ISA-95 mapping, and rollout patterns.

OPC UA vs MQTT Sparkplug B: The Industrial Connectivity Decision (2026)

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO August 13, 2026iiotNo Comments

OPC UA vs MQTT Sparkplug B compared for 2026 industrial connectivity: semantic modeling, state management, and when to run both together.

OPC UA FX vs MQTT Sparkplug B (2026): Which for Your UNS

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO August 4, 2026iiot1 Comment

OPC UA FX vs MQTT Sparkplug B compared for the Unified Namespace: machine-level field exchange vs enterprise event bus, TSN, payloads, when to bridge. 2026 decision guide.

MQTT Protocol: The Complete 2026 Technical Guide

By mprcba June 3, 2026iiot1 Comment

MQTT 5.0 explained for 2026 — packet structure, QoS, retained messages, Unified Namespace, security, and migration patterns from MQTT 3.1.1.

Unified Namespace (UNS) for Industrial Data: 2026 State-of-the-Art Guide

By mprcba May 16, 2026iiotNo Comments

Unified Namespace (UNS) for industrial data in 2026 — Sparkplug B 3.0, ISA-95 alignment, HiveMQ vs EMQX vs NanoMQ benchmarks, and a fully refreshed UNS reference architecture.

Sparkplug B 3.0 Edge of Network Architecture: Production Reference

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO May 16, 2026iiotNo Comments

Sparkplug B 3.0 edge of network architecture for production IIoT — topic namespaces, primary/secondary hosts, store-and-forward, MQTT 5 mapping, and 2026 deployment patterns.

UNS vs Data Mesh vs Data Fabric for Industrial Data (2026)

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO May 16, 2026iiotNo Comments

Unified Namespace vs Data Mesh vs Data Fabric for industrial data in 2026 — semantics, governance, ownership, edge vs cloud, and a decision matrix for OT/IT convergence.

Sparkplug B 3.0 Protocol: The Complete Technical Guide for Unified Namespace

By MPRAUTO MPRAUTO April 22, 2026iiotNo Comments

Deep Sparkplug B 3.0 reference — topic structure, NBIRTH/DBIRTH/NDATA, sequence numbers, state machine, Eclipse Tahu, and UNS deployment patterns.