MQTT Data Integration with MongoDB

HiveMQ has continued innovating and bringing new solutions to facilitate IoT data movement and become the central nervous system enabling fast, reliable, and secure IoT data movement. HiveMQ’s full-featured MQTT broker can now integrate with MongoDB, the leading multi-cloud developer data platform for building modern applications.

The Enterprise Extension for MongoDB is HiveMQ’s latest addition to its rapidly growing suite of data integration solutions for data analytics and streaming platforms. The extension expands our customers’ options to fully integrate their MQTT data with several data management solutions like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Timescale, and CockroachDB reliably, securely, and at scale. HiveMQ also has extensions to integrate Data Streaming technologies like Kafka, Google PubSub, and Amazon Kinesis.

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About the Enterprise Extension for MongoDB

The new extension seamlessly integrates MQTT data for persistent data storage in MongoDB. It also supports MongoDB’s SCRAM Authentication, Connection URIs for MongoDB, and secures the data with robust TLS encryption. A unique feature of this extension is that it is fully customizable and allows users to define the precise format of documents in MongoDB, ensuring that MQTT messages can be optimally formatted for streamlined data querying.

SCRAM Authentication Support:

SCRAM is a widely used authentication mechanism in MongoDB that secures client-server communication by securely exchanging client credentials with the MongoDB server. The HiveMQ Extension for MongoDB enables secure authentication using MongoDB’s SCRAM authentication for clients connecting to HiveMQ and utilizing MongoDB as the storage backend.

TLS Encryption:

The extension can be configured to enable TLS encryption between HiveMQ and MongoDB. MongoDB and the driver must be configured separately. Details on configuring TLS encryption with MongoDB can be found in the extension’s documentation.

Fully Customizable Templating:

The extension’s fully customizable templating system helps define documents’ exact format. This ensures the data is ingested and stored in MongoDB according to operational requirements and helps optimize data formatting for efficient data querying and quick analysis.

Sample Use Case: HiveMQ and MongoDB Make Smart Buildings Energy Efficient and Sustainable

In a world where energy conservation and efficient resource utilization are essential, let’s consider a use case where MongoDB, HiveMQ’s MQTT broker, and the Enterprise Extension for MongoDB combine forces to enable real-time energy monitoring for smart buildings.

Smart Sensors and the MQTT Broker Transmit Data

Using MQTT-based IoT devices deployed throughout the building, electricity consumption, temperature, and occupancy data is collected and sent to the HiveMQ MQTT broker. The MQTT broker acts as a central hub, efficiently and securely handling the communication between devices and backend systems. The HiveMQ MQTT broker also ensures reliable message delivery and provides MQTT-specific features like quality of service, session management, and topic-based message routing.

The Enterprise Extension for MongoDB Seamlessly Integrates MQTT Data

The HiveMQ MongoDB extension seamlessly integrates with MongoDB, allowing for persistent storage of the MQTT data in a highly scalable and flexible manner. The fully customizable templating system allows MQTT data to be stored according to the building’s specific operational requirements. MongoDB’s document-based model accommodates the varying data formats and structures generated by different IoT devices.

MongoDB’s Analytics and Visualization Tools Make Data Actionable

Once the MQTT data is securely stored in MongoDB, using its powerful in-app analytics, building managers can gain deep insights into energy consumption patterns, identify anomalies, and optimize energy usage.

By leveraging MongoDB’s rich query support and aggregation framework, building managers can make data-driven decisions promptly, reducing costs and enhancing sustainability. In cases where data needs to be exported to an ML/AI engine, MongoDB Spark and Kafka connectors can be used. Users of MongoDB Atlas can leverage Atlas Device Sync and Realm to send real-time alerts and messages to mobile devices. Data can be visualized using MongoDB Atlas Charts or through a third-party Business Intelligence (BI) tool connected via MongoDB BI connector or Atlas SQL interface.

Do check out this MongoDB article Real-Time Energy Monitoring for Smart Buildings with MongoDB and HiveMQ for more information around this use case. To learn more about MongoDB’s role in industrial connectivity and IIoT, please visit MongoDB's Manufacturing and Industrial IoT page.

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Get Started With the Enterprise MongoDB Extension

If you haven’t already, download the latest free trial version of the HiveMQ platform. After that, follow the instructions in the MongoDB Documentation to get started.

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About Humza Akhtar

Dr. Humza Akhtar is a Principal in the Industry Solutions Team at MongoDB, designing Industry 4.0 solutions for the manufacturing and energy sector. Prior to joining MongoDB, he was working at Ernst & Young Canada as a Senior Manager in digital operations consultancy practice. Humza attained his Ph.D. at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and worked with the Singapore manufacturing industry for a number of years on Industry 4.0 research and implementation. He has spent most of his career enabling smart and connected factories for many manufacturing clients.

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About Nasir Qureshi

Nasir Qureshi is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at HiveMQ. With a passion for working on disruptive technology products, Nasir has helped SaaS companies in their hyper-growth journey for over 3 years now. He holds an MBA from California State University with a major in Technology and Data Management. His interests include IoT devices, networking, data security, and privacy.

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