Protocol Translation Visualizer

Visualize Protocol Translation Flows

Protocol Translation Lab

Choose two IoT protocols, translate a payload through a gateway pipeline, and inspect which addressing, reliability, security, and encoding semantics survive cleanly.

Goal
Understand what a gateway must preserve, transform, or approximate.
Try
Compare MQTT to HTTP, CoAP to MQTT, and Modbus to MQTT scenarios.
Watch
Use semantic risk, mapping notes, and compatibility checks together.
Reflect
Which mismatch would cause data loss, duplicate actions, or unsafe control?

Guided Investigation

  1. Start with MQTT to HTTP and inspect how topic addressing becomes a request path.
  2. Switch to Modbus to MQTT and notice that register meaning must be supplied externally.
  3. Use the compatibility checks to decide whether the bridge needs buffering or deduplication.

Scenario Focus

Cloud ingest bridges MQTT telemetry into an HTTP API while preserving device identity and delivery intent.

Quick Presets
Ready: Cloud ingest loaded

Translation Setup

Gateway Pipeline

1

Parse

Decode source frame and validate payload.

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2

Map

Map addressing, QoS, and security metadata.

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3

Encode

Serialize payload and target headers.

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Source Size
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Target Size
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Gateway Cost
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Size Overhead
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Semantic Risk

Source

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Target

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Translation Diagnosis

Translate a message to see gateway diagnosis.

    Semantic Mapping

    Field Source Target Result

    Compatibility Checks

    Check Signal Status

    Target What-If

    Target Cost Trade-Off