Three major real-time protocols are used by IoT devices today: XMPP, CoAP, and MQTT. Interestingly enough, XMPP started life as Jabber, an open instant messenger protocol.

Hospitals use the protocol to communicate with pacemakers and other medical devices. Oil and gas companies use MQTT to monitor thousands of miles of oil pipelines.

The MQTT protocol was invented in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark and Arlen Nipper to monitor oil and gas pipelines over satellite networks. Over the past several years it has become the de facto ...

The message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) protocol is a key contender for the most favored method of data transference. The main reason why is MQTT’s open-source design and lightweight stature ...

MQTT’s claim to fame, of course, is that it is very tiny and is made to minimize power consumption compared to heavier-weight protocols.

Also speaking at ICC, and further highlighting the advances Inductive Automation and MQTT are making in the industrial space, was Kenny Heidel of Magnetrol, a supplier of industrial flow and level ...

Microsoft recently announced the public preview of bi-directional communication via MQTT version 5 and MQTT version 3.1.1 protocols for its Azure Event Grid service.

“The MQTT protocol is used to interconnect and control smart-home devices, via smart-home hubs,” explained Martin Hron, security researcher at Avast, in a posting on the issue published today.

So you’ve built a central server and filled your house with WiFi-connected nodes all speaking to each other using the MQTT protocol. In short, you’ve got the machine-to-machine side of … ...

First, the OASIS standard MQTT protocol is not secure by itself. Any implementation requires TLS or other means to secure sessions. Further, it does not require devices to authenticate to servers.