A fascinating article from Philip N. Howard at George Washington University asserts that the number of connected devices surpassed the number of people on the planet in 2014 (Fig. 1). The author ...

Billions of connected devices need to communicate and move data effectively across networks and cloud platforms. Here’s why MQTT is the standard protocol. The internet of things (IoT) continues to ...

Security researcher Federico Maggi had been collecting data – some of it sensitive in nature – from hundreds of thousands of Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) servers he found sitting wide ...

The IoT will only succeed if users can trust connected devices and their underlying infrastructure, say Stéphane Di Vito and Michael Jackson. Nowadays it seems as if every device that is controlled ...

Simple graphic illustrating MQTT's publish/subscribe method that allows for applications to be decoupled from devices. Beyond OPC UA’s solid stance as the most widely recognized and used protocol ...

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The Internet of Things (IoT) will connect machines and devices together into functioning, intelligent systems. Which protocols will manage the communication? The Internet revolutionized how people ...

This first installment in a four-part series on key industrial network technologies explains how an ultra lightweight data transfer protocol became a widely used data gathering tool for Internet of ...

The ESP32/ESP8266 WIFI display using MQTT protocol project features several wifi modules suitable to IoT applications. These WiFi modules has OLED display integrated or connected particularly to the ...

MQTT is a lightweight protocol that connects a device to a server or other management system when messaging is required. This makes it a good choice for networks where bandwidth use is tightly ...