ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

MQ Telemetry Transport

MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) is a way to send messages from one device to another using the internet. Like sending messages to your friend, but with a lot of other devices around the world also connected to the internet.

Imagine that you have a toy car that you want to send to your friend who lives in another city. You put the car in a special box and give it to a man who promises to take it to your friend. This man is like the internet, which helps your messages travel from your device to your friend's device.

MQTT is like a special language that your device uses to speak to your friend's device. It's different from the language you speak, but your devices understand it. Imagine that you and your friend speak different languages, but you both understand the same secret code that you made up together. MQTT is like that secret code.

MQTT makes sure that your messages get to the right place and in the right order. Just like how the man making sure that your toy car gets to your friend's house and not someone else's house. MQTT also helps make sure that your device doesn't use up too much internet, like how you have to pay for the man to take your toy car to your friend's house.

Overall, MQTT is a way for devices to easily and efficiently communicate with each other using the internet.