As more companies embrace Industry 4.0, they are looking to bolster the industrial edge to harness the power of data near the source. The value of edge data increases rapidly when it is used for real-time monitoring and control, which is crucial in industries like manufacturing or oil and gas, where even milliseconds of delay can affect productivity and safety. Legacy protocols like Modbus, MTConnect were optimized for machine-to-machine communication, and not for seamless communication between diverse industrial edge devices and systems. The only way to achieve true interoperability is to adopt a modern standards-based communication protocol like MQTT which is a lightweight, open-standard protocol tailored perfectly for the industrial edge. Learn more how MQTT and HiveMQ’s Edge gateway are powering the Industrial Edge.