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 ...

Ordinary Web applications may not need reliable messaging, but the multiplicity of endpoints represented by the Internet of things demands a messaging protocol that measures up Architectural patterns ...

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 ...

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 ...

As communication systems have improved and expanded in the age of IoT, the need for data security has increased. The MQTT protocol can provide efficient and secure integrating industrial automation ...

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 ...