Building a Unified Namespace with Sparkplug B and Node-RED

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Unified Namespace” is the most over-hyped and under-explained term in industrial IoT right now. Vendors sell it as a product, consultants sell it as a transformation, and engineers quietly wonder whether it’s anything more than “an MQTT broker with good topic names.” Having built a few, my honest answer is: it’s a pattern, not a product — and a genuinely good one. This post strips away the hype and shows how to build a real Unified Namespace incrementally, using Sparkplug B and Node-RED.

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Building a Unified Namespace with Sparkplug B and Node-RED