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the IEC 61850 Client must issue a sequence of requests to the Server in order to receive the
updates of a particular piece of information. The use of an MQTT Broker allows the user
to receive updates each time a value changes, or each time a certain time interval elapses.
This improves the efficiency of the exchange of information with a server.
Mapping each piece of information exchanged with the IEC 61850 Server into the
JSON format is also very important; this allows a generic user to receive information in an
open format instead of receiving it according to the IEC 61850 protocol.
Finally, the mechanism to allow the user to acquire knowledge about the data type
descriptions of the data maintained by the IEC 61850 Servers seems to be strategic because
interoperability is a very important feature in the IoT. It is important to point out that this
feature is totally missing in all the other approaches available in the current literature.