# "MQTT+FTP" to build robust IIoT projects on Ignition:

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-ftp-to-build-robust-iiot-projects-on-ignition/11332>\
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**Created:** [March 9, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-ftp-to-build-robust-iiot-projects-on-ignition/11332 "2016-03-09T03:32:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-ftp-to-build-robust-iiot-projects-on-ignition/11332/1 "2016-03-09T03:32:20Z")

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As Ignition recommends MQTT as the “Protocol for IIoT and Smart City” projects to manage 1000’s of geographically distributed RTUs, i thought it deserves deeper discussion and hence i am initiating this topic.

Remote RTUs can be programmed to send the datalogs as timestamped CSV/JSON file by SFTP protocol.

**How can we download “remote RTU datalogs” into Ignition and merge it with the Ignition Historian?**