Eclipse Kapua and Eclipse Hono are both Eclipse IoT connectivity platforms. While Kapua focuses on device management, Hono specializes in telemetry and command messaging for IoT.
Eclipse Kura edge gateways can publish telemetry to Eclipse Hono's MQTT adapter, enabling cloud-scale device connectivity with protocol abstraction.
Eclipse Ditto and Eclipse Hono are designed to work together in IoT architectures. Hono provides device connectivity and protocol abstraction, while Ditto provides the digital twin layer for state management and APIs.
Node-RED can consume telemetry and events from Eclipse Hono's northbound AMQP or Kafka APIs, enabling visual flow-based processing of device data.
Eclipse Hono normalizes telemetry from IoT devices and forwards it to downstream consumers. InfluxDB is a common destination for time-series telemetry data ingested through Hono pipelines.
Eclipse Hono includes an MQTT protocol adapter that allows devices to connect using MQTT, similar to how they would connect to Mosquitto. Hono can use an existing MQTT broker as its messaging infrastructure or expose its own MQTT adapter endpoint.