Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT)

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IBM Open-Sources Potential “Internet of Things” Protocol

Scott M. Fulton, III | ReadWrite Hack | November 2, 2011

The openly stated goal from IBM is to produce a completely new world-wide web, one comprised of the messages that digitally empowered devices would send to one another. It is the same Internet, but not the same Web. Read More »

MQTT Could Reshape Enterprise Wireless; Even Facebook Messenger is a Fan

Vance McCarthy | Integration Developer News | January 1, 2012

IBM and Eurotech have contributed software to the Eclipse Foundation to support communications among the next wave of smartphones and wireless devices. Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT), already in use for Facebook Messenger, is a scalable protocol to easily and quickly connect data from devices with low CPU, memory and limited bandwidth access, officials said. Read More »