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 ...

For the last few months, I had been using Sparkfun’s Phant server as a data logger for a small science project. Unfortunately, they’ve had some serious technical issues and have discontinued the ...

A key aspect of MQTT’s (message queueing telemetry transport) architecture involves the use of an intermediary server to collect data, as it changes, from the devices it is connected to. It then ...

MQTT’s communication is reliable despite unreliable connectivity, employs bidirectional messaging for dynamic data flow, automates messaging, and is easy to implement within your machine. Unlike ...

Enterprises need a way to ensure their IoT devices communicate to platforms and apps. Identifying when to use the popular MQTT or the newer LWM2M protocol will save enterprises time and money later.

Five years ago, MQTT (message queuing telemetry transport) was a little-known industrial communications protocol for transferring data from industrial devices to other databases for aggregation and ...

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 ...

If you’re working on a home automation project, you’re probably knee-deep into MQTT by now. If not, you should be. The lightweight messaging protocol is an ideal choice for getting your “Things” on ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atsign, the developer of the innovative NoPorts technology, announces NoPorts now makes MQTT broker, gateways, and subscriber devices secure ...

An oft-forgotten 90s-era communications protocol now becoming prevalent in the Internet of Things realm can easily be manipulated via the public Internet to snoop on and even sabotage power plant ...