The open source industrial IoT ecosystem has taken another major step forward. The Eclipse Foundation is thrilled to announce that AUTOSOL, a premier provider of industrial data communications software, has officially joined the Sparkplug Working Group as a Strategic Member. This move marks a significant alignment of real-world IIoT deployment experience with open standard governance, expanding our community's ability to deliver robust, plug-and-play interoperability across the global industrial sector.
By entering at the Strategic tier, AUTOSOL will actively participate in working group governance, contribute directly to the technical evolution of the MQTT Sparkplug specification, and collaborate with other foundation members to build a highly secure and scalable IIoT ecosystem.
Field-Proven Reliability: From the Edge to the Enterprise
Based in Houston, Texas, AUTOSOL has built a formidable reputation providing mission-critical telemetry and data unity for thousands of operators across distributed, high-stakes environments like oil and gas, water/wastewater, and manufacturing. Their flagship software offerings have long served as a bridge between complex legacy industrial infrastructure and modern operations.
The company's core product ecosystem actively showcases the practical value of standardising on MQTT Sparkplug:
- AUTOSOL Communication Manager (ACM): A full-featured, multi-protocol polling engine used extensively across massive field operations to unify real-time, historical, and edge data collection.
- eACM: An edge-based polling solution that leverages MQTT to deliver fast, highly efficient remote data streams directly into traditional SCADA systems.
Both products demonstrate how the Sparkplug standard ensures operators can rely on standardised, reliable data communications across vast and unpredictable distributed industrial environments.
Innovation in the Pipeline: The First Sparkplug Aware MQTT Broker
Bringing field-proven code to the standards body is just part of the story. AUTOSOL is also expanding the boundaries of the Sparkplug ecosystem with its recent announcement of the AUTOSOL MQTT Broker.
Currently in select customer beta, this software is purpose-built for harsh industrial and oil and gas deployments. Unlike general-purpose brokers, this industrially hardened solution natively understands the underlying Sparkplug protocol. It actively manages device session states, handles crucial birth and death certificates, and ensures that edge subscribers always receive current, valid data. By eliminating third-party broker dependencies, it gives industrial operators a completely native, fully integrated Sparkplug stack from the edge all the way to the enterprise.
Bringing a Field-Level Perspective to Governance
Strategic membership guarantees that AUTOSOL's extensive operational history will directly guide the technical roadmap of the working group. Their hands-on experience translating legacy edge protocol data into clean, stateful MQTT payloads will be highly valuable as our committees continue to focus on ecosystem adoption and standardizing scalable IIoT architectures.
"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. 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."
— Cody Pannell, Director of Software Development at AUTOSOL
The Eclipse Foundation and the Sparkplug Working Group warmly welcome the entire AUTOSOL team to our governance and technical tables. We look forward to the practical insights and technical leadership the AUTOSOL team will bring to our committees as we collaborate to expand and secure the Sparkplug ecosystem for operators worldwide.
