The Eclipse Foundation’s Sparkplug Working Group governs the Sparkplug standard, an open specification that defines how MQTT-based devices communicate in industrial IoT environments. Sparkplug has become a widely adopted standard for enabling interoperability between field devices, edge systems, and enterprise platforms across industries, including oil and gas, water/wastewater, and manufacturing.
AUTOSOL’s flagship products, AUTOSOL Communication Manager (ACM) and eACM, support MQTT Sparkplug. ACM is a high-performance multi-protocol SCADA communication platform widely deployed in oil and gas field operations, while eACM extends secure edge-based data collection and MQTT delivery for distributed industrial environments.
Last month, AUTOSOL announced development of their upcoming MQTT Broker, a Sparkplug Aware MQTT broker purpose-built for industrial and oil and gas environments. Unlike general-purpose brokers, the planned MQTT Broker will natively understand Sparkplug session management and state awareness, ensuring reliable, validated data delivery across the enterprise. The broker is designed to provide operators with a fully integrated, industrial-grade Sparkplug stack without reliance on third-party broker infrastructure. The product is currently in beta with select customers, with broader availability planned for a future release.
“Joining the Sparkplug Working Group as a Strategic Member is a natural extension of how we’ve built our products and how we think about the future of industrial data,” said Cody Pannell, Director of Software Development at AUTOSOL. “MQTT Sparkplug B solves real interoperability problems for the operators we work with every day. Having a seat at the table where the standard evolves means we can bring that field-level perspective into the process and ensure the standard continues to serve the needs of industrial environments. The development of our own Sparkplug Aware MQTT Broker is a further expression of that commitment, giving our customers a complete, native Sparkplug stack from edge to enterprise”
As a Strategic Member, AUTOSOL will participate in working group governance, contribute to specification development, and collaborate with other Eclipse Foundation members to advance the open IIoT ecosystem.
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About AUTOSOL
AUTOSOL (Automation Solutions, LP) provides industrial data communications software that unifies real-time, historical, and edge-based data collection across diverse devices and protocols. AUTOSOL’s platform is trusted by thousands of operators in oil and gas. Learn more at autosoln.com.
About the Eclipse Foundation Sparkplug Working Group
The Sparkplug Working Group at the Eclipse Foundation is responsible for the stewardship and development of the MQTT Sparkplug specification, an open standard for industrial IoT data communications. Learn more at eclipse.org.
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