MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport. It is a publish/subscribe, extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol, designed for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. The design principles are to minimise network bandwidth and device resource requirements whilst also attempting to ensure reliability and some degree of assurance of delivery. These principles also turn out to make the protocol ideal of the emerging “machine-to-machine” (M2M) or “Internet of Things” world of connected devices, and for mobile applications where bandwidth and battery power are at a premium.

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MQTT V3.1.1 NOW AN OASIS STANDARD

MQTT | November 07, 2014

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MQTT v3.1.1 has now become an OASIS Standard. This marks not just the result of 18 months hard work by the Technical Committee, but also the last 15 years of work started by Andy and Arlen. Congratulations to everyone involved....

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MQTT INVENTORS SPEAK AT TEDX

MQTT | November 05, 2012

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Worth sharing a couple of videos of the two main inventors of the MQTT protocol – Andy Stanford-Clark and Arlen Nipper – speaking at two different TEDx events in the past few months. More recently, Arlen went on stage at TEDx New Bedford in the US – “The Internet of Things is Just Getting Started”...

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USEFUL MQTT TOOLS FOR THE IBM WATSON IOT PLATFORM

| May 06, 2016

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The IoT Zone is brought to you in partnership with ThingWorx- the most complete IoT enablement platform available. Learn how you can get started building IoT solutions now. For the development of Internet of Things applications it’s often useful to simulate devices. Below are two options which are easy to use....

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INTEROPERABILITY TESTING AT ECLIPSECON 2014

MQTT | January 22, 2014

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The Eclipse Paho project is rapidly becoming a source of some great MQTT clients – currently it contains implementations in C, Java, Javascript, Python (contributed from the mosquitto project), Lua, C++, embedded/minimal C, Go… and an Objective-C client is about to be added. The very popular mosquitto broker recently moved under the Eclipse umbrella too – the Eclipse Mosquitto project contains both mosquitto, and a fully open-sourced Really Small Message Broker from IBM, which...

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MQTT V3.1.1 NOW AN OASIS STANDARD

MQTT | November 07, 2014

MQTT v3.1.1 has now become an OASIS Standard. This marks not just the result of 18 months hard work by the Technical Committee, but also the last 15 years of work started by Andy and Arlen. Congratulations to everyone involved....

Read More
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MQTT INVENTORS SPEAK AT TEDX

MQTT | November 05, 2012

Worth sharing a couple of videos of the two main inventors of the MQTT protocol – Andy Stanford-Clark and Arlen Nipper – speaking at two different TEDx events in the past few months. More recently, Arlen went on stage at TEDx New Bedford in the US – “The Internet of Things is Just Getting Started”...

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USEFUL MQTT TOOLS FOR THE IBM WATSON IOT PLATFORM

| May 06, 2016

The IoT Zone is brought to you in partnership with ThingWorx- the most complete IoT enablement platform available. Learn how you can get started building IoT solutions now. For the development of Internet of Things applications it’s often useful to simulate devices. Below are two options which are easy to use....

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INTEROPERABILITY TESTING AT ECLIPSECON 2014

MQTT | January 22, 2014

The Eclipse Paho project is rapidly becoming a source of some great MQTT clients – currently it contains implementations in C, Java, Javascript, Python (contributed from the mosquitto project), Lua, C++, embedded/minimal C, Go… and an Objective-C client is about to be added. The very popular mosquitto broker recently moved under the Eclipse umbrella too – the Eclipse Mosquitto project contains both mosquitto, and a fully open-sourced Really Small Message Broker from IBM, which...

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