SmarterLink

SmarterLink is an industrial IoT protocol for distributed communication between smart manufacturing devices and systems.

It defines a set of roles, events, and message conventions built on MQTT, designed to connect data producers, data processors, HMI applications, and data stores in a manufacturing environment.

What's in this documentation

Protocol Specification

• SmarterLink Protocol — Roles, topics, message format, standard events, and file transfers
• File Transfer Protocol — Chunk-based file transfer over MQTT
• MQTT Topic Format — Universal Namespace topic structure and level definitions
• Protocol Envelope — JSON message envelope with header and payload fields
• Subscription Topic Filters — MQTT wildcard filters for receiving messages

Example Library Impelementation (in C#)

• Using the Library — How to bootstrap and use the .NET client library
• API Reference — C# API documentation

On GitHub

• DotNet Library — Example library implementation for DotNet
• Sample — Sample DotNet application using the SmarterLink library