IoT Virtual Device Simulator
This flow acts like a virtual device simulator that sends Json data to Mqtt brokers(servers) on the internet. In my example I send it to test.mosquitto.org and AWS IoT devices. Pretty simple flow. You can add additional devices if you like.
This obviously uses Node Red.
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