Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, IBM’s Watson, and Google IoT platforms, for example, all are using MQTT. With such broad uptake, MQTT overtook HTTP in 2018 as the transport protocol of choice for the ...

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 ...

Wondering how many organizations use MQTT, Burke did a quick Internet scan using the Shodan search engine and found 10,000 hosts in North America alone. Then he started building a tool to ...

Given their constrained processing and memory capacities, IoT devices engage in communication with each other, as well as with edge devices and cloud servers, through specialized protocols. The two ...

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.

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.

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.

Using the MQTT protocol as the means of communication between devices installed in the building, the occupant’s arrival could trigger a range of actions. When someone is detected to have entered a ...

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.