Excel MQTT DDE Linking

Excel MQTT DDE linking allows using Excel, for real time monitoring of remote data sources. DDE is part of Excel, its been around for a while, and it is still widely used. Adding MQTT data to Excel is made simple by using DDE, to link your Excel workbook to sensor data acquisition software.

Excel MQTT DDE linking Excel real time monitoring of remote data
Excel real time monitoring of remote data

When you integrate sensor data acquisition software into your application, you can make things happen. With it, you can connect to serial, MODBUS, and TCP/IP based devices. Because it handles the sensor measurement, acts as a MQTT subscriber or publisher, and can act as a DDE client or server. Excel can act as either a DDE client or server. When you bring both applications together for Excel MQTT DDE linking it opens up a lot of possibilities. It allows Excel to do real time data analysis of your IOT data acquisition application.

The Excel MQTT DDE linking data acquisition software acts as a MQTT subscriber and DDE server. Excel can act as a DDE client.
The data acquisition software acts as a MQTT subscriber and DDE server. Excel can act as a DDE client.

It really doesn’t take much on the data acquisition software’s part to allow Excel to connect to MQTT data. It only takes 2 modules. This is literally a 5 minute setup and run.

Connect to MQTT by DDE
MQTT to DDE uses just 2 modules

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