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Plc4x alternatives for AI agents.

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Plc4x

PLC4X The Industrial IoT adapter

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#1

Thingsboard Gateway

Similarity 131Trust 96Excellent 100

Open-source IoT Gateway - integrates devices connected to legacy and third-party systems with ThingsBoard IoT Platform using Modbus, CAN bus, BACnet, BLE, OPC-UA, MQTT, ODBC and REST protocols.

2.1K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonIoT
$ npx skills add thingsboard/thingsboard-gateway
#2

Nanoprintf

Similarity 124Trust 82Strong 81

The smallest public printf implementation for its feature set.

826 starsJun 14, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++IoT
$ npx skills add charlesnicholson/nanoprintf
#3

Bacnet Stack

Similarity 123Trust 85Strong 80

BACnet Protocol Stack library provides a BACnet application layer, network layer and media access (MAC) layer communications services.

575 starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add bacnet-stack/bacnet-stack
#4

Mcuboot

Similarity 123Trust 93Excellent 100

Secure boot for 32-bit Microcontrollers!

1.9K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add mcu-tools/mcuboot
#5

Paho.Mqtt.C

Similarity 122Trust 90Excellent 100

An Eclipse Paho C client library for MQTT for Windows, Linux and MacOS. API documentation: https://eclipse-paho.github.io/paho.mqtt.c/

2.3K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.c
#6

Libpeer

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

WebRTC Library for IoT/Embedded Device using C

1.5K starsMay 18, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add sepfy/libpeer
#7

IoTClient

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 98

This is an IoT device communication protocol implementation client, which will include common industrial communication protocols such as mainstream PLC communication reading, ModBus protocol, and Bacnet protocol. This component is open source and free for life, using the most relaxed MIT open source agreement, you can modify and commercial use at will (commercial use please evaluate and test). 这是一个物联网设备通讯协议实现客户端,将会包括主流PLC通信读取、ModBus协议、Bacnet协议等常用工业通讯协议。本组件终身开源免费,采用最宽松的MIT开源协议,您可以随意修改和商业使用(商业使用请做好评估和测试)。

1.6K starsMay 12, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC#IoT
$ npx skills add zhaopeiym/IoTClient
#8

Neuron

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

Open source industrial connectivity server

1.3K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add emqx/neuron
#9

Device Os

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 100

Device OS (Firmware) for Particle Devices

1.1K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC++IoT
$ npx skills add particle-iot/device-os
#10

Upm

Similarity 121Trust 82Promising 68

UPM is a high level repository that provides software drivers for a wide variety of commonly used sensors and actuators. These software drivers interact with the underlying hardware platform through calls to MRAA APIs.

669 starsNov 3, 2025 pushrobotics-iotC++IoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-upm/upm
#11

Arduino Mqtt

Similarity 121Trust 91Excellent 96

MQTT library for Arduino

1.1K starsApr 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add 256dpi/arduino-mqtt
#12

FastBee

Similarity 120Trust 91Excellent 99

FastBee开源物联网平台,简单易用,可用于搭建物联网平台以及二次开发和学习。适用于智能家居、智慧办公、智慧社区、农业监测、水利监测、工业控制等。

2.2K starsApr 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add kerwincui/FastBee
#13

Hivemq Community Edition

Similarity 120Trust 96Excellent 100

HiveMQ CE is a Java-based open source MQTT broker that fully supports MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5. It is the foundation of the HiveMQ Enterprise Connectivity and Messaging Platform

1.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add hivemq/hivemq-community-edition
#14

Milo

Similarity 120Trust 93Excellent 100

Eclipse Milo™ - an open source implementation of OPC UA (IEC 62541).

1.4K starsJun 13, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-milo/milo
#15

Hivemq Mqtt Client

Similarity 120Trust 95Excellent 100

HiveMQ MQTT Client is an MQTT 5.0 and MQTT 3.1.1 compatible and feature-rich high-performance Java client library with different API flavours and backpressure support

1.1K starsJun 13, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add hivemq/hivemq-mqtt-client
#16

Openremote

Similarity 120Trust 91Excellent 99

100% open-source IoT Platform - Integrate your devices, add intelligence, build custom apps

1.8K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add openremote/openremote

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