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 ...

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 ...

There's no doubt about it. MQTT is here to stay. Though it was developed for devices with highly intermittent connectivity, its simplicity, flexibility, and bi-directionality have driven its adoption ...

When [Elixir of Progress] was looking at setting up environmental sensors around their home to keep track of temperature, humidity and such, the obvious ideas of using WiFi-connected sensors didn’t ...

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The addition of MQTT protocol support paves the way to bringing SCADA control systems and other industrial IoT deployments to Azure. Here’s how to get started. MQTT is an important technology for the ...

[Emilio Ficara] [built himself an Internet-connected MQTT multimeter](http://ficara.altervista.org/) (translated from Italian by robots). Or maybe we should say that ...

IDEC Corporation has released a free firmware upgrade enabling new and existing MicroSmart FC6A Plus PLC CPUs to support the industry-standard MQTT protocol. The upgrade can be downloaded to the FC6A ...