Announcing MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways for AWS IoT SiteWise

Today, AWS announces the general availability of MQTT enabled SiteWise Edge gateways for AWS IoT SiteWise. AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale. With this launch, newly created gateways now include an MQTTv5 broker component that centralizes connectivity between SiteWise Edge and customer built edge components. Now you can integrate communications between your own edge components and AWS IoT SiteWise Edge using the MQTT protocol in a publish and subscribe topology. This eliminates building point-to-point connections between edge components simplifying the integration of custom logic for edge data flows. You can build components at the edge for data contextualization. You can use your components to enrich equipment telemetry data with data from operations systems (MES, ERP, etc.) required in calculating key performance indicators (KPIs) such as Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), uptime, and progress against production targets. Through AWS IoT SiteWise Edge, you have native integration of this data for storage and additional use cases in the AWS cloud. You can use your Unified Name Space (UNS), an industrial data normalization and organization pattern, at the edge and extend it with AWS cloud services. The new gateways securely transmit the equiment data streams of your choice to AWS IoT SiteWise, using existing organization, storage, and analytics features of the service with robust store and forward capabilities of SiteWise Edge. This feature is available in all AWS IoT SiteWise commercial regions. To learn more, please see our [documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/userguide/mqtt-enabled-v3-gateway.html), [blogpost](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/mqtt-aws-iot-sitewise-gateways/),and [example](https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-sitewise-mqtt-sfc).