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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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The Internet revolutionized how people communicate and work together. It ushered in a new era of free information for everyone, transforming life in ways that were hard to imagine in its early stages.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...