We already know that MQTT allows us to publish messages on topics. A publisher always has to specify the topic name to which a message will be published. The easiest way to understand topic names in MQTT is to think about them as paths in a file system.
If we have to save dozens of files that have information about different types of sensor for a diverse number of drones, we can create a hierarchy of directories or folders to organize all the files that we will save. We can create a directory named sensors, then one sub-directory for each drone, such as octocopter01, and finally a sub-directory with the sensor name, such as altitude. The path in macOS or Linux will be sensors/octocopter01/altitude because these operating systems use a forward slash (/) as a delimiter. In Windows, the path will be sensors\drone\altitude because this operating...
