We are thinking of using MQTT and I was wondering if there was a standard for topic dictionaries a sensors/devices - kind of like a MIB file for SNMP?
Are these topic dictionaries published to a central repository?
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Welcome to the site. You might get more precise answers if you can add a bit more about what you're trying to do. What kind of sensors for example you are using to get what kind of data? You can also check out the site tour.– Helmar ♦Sep 27, 2018 at 19:04
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This question wasn't for a particular sensor, but was a general question. When we implement sensors/devices at my work, we make an SNMP OID dictionary in the form of a MIB file - I was wondering if there was an analogous system.– HiDefLoLifeSep 27, 2018 at 20:11
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Short answer: NO
The only standard topic structure is the $SYS/ prefix that shows internal state of the broker and then the content differs between brokers.
Agree with hardillb's answer. There is no central repository. To add:
MQTT is just the transport on top of which you can layer any other protocol. This is very immature, we only know of a couple of somewhat standard protocols:
Sparkplug https://s3.amazonaws.com/cirrus-link-com/Sparkplug+Topic+Namespace+and+State+ManagementV2.1+Apendix++Payload+B+format.pdf being de-facto standardized by Eclipse https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-tahu
LWM2M-MQTT https://wiki.eclipse.org/images/e/e1/LWM2M_MQTT_EclipseIoTDaysGrenoble.pdf
Each of the cloud IoT platforms (AWS, Azure, etc) has their own topic namespace and protocol.
many ad-hoc implementations. Just subscribe to # on any of the public MQTT brokers (iot.eclipse.org, broker.hivemq.com, etc).
