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 ...

The XMPP, CoAP, and MQTT protocols have distinct pros and cons; here’s a quick rundown of the trade-offs Real-time communication technology is an absolute requirement for the development of Internet ...

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 ...

Software developers face a wide range of protocol choices in creating applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). These applications need to be able to consume information from a large number of ...

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 ...

Two of the key machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols that form the underpinnings of the Internet of Things are replete with vulnerabilities, design flaws and implementation issues that can leave ...

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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 ...

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 ...

As the IoT becomes a reality, the MQTT protocol is gaining in importance. The small, low bandwidth protocol supports sporadic messages from thousands of devices which publish information to a central ...