A few weeks ago, I sat down in front of an empty C# project and with a printout of the latest OASIS MQTT 3.1.1 specification review draft and started to implement the protocol from scratch.
There were several, including a few non-technical reasons not to pick up an existing implementation like, for instance, Paolo Patierno's M2Mqtt library (which I'm using a test client), which included requiring a server implementation with a certain shape...
[This is a follow-up post to "Internet of Things or Thing on the Internet?"]
The metaphor "Internet of Things" stands for the next wave of expansion of scope for distributed systems.
We started the journey with centralized systems, single computers, that you had to walk up to and control with switches and that were later able to be fed with batches of punch cards allowing distributed creation of jobs with centralized processing....
I just read the post Privacy in the Smart Home - Why we need an Intranet of Things by Kai Kreuzer from the openHAB.org project in which he is advocating an "Intranet of Things" enabled by a local integration hub, which is a model I refer to as "local gateway" in my "Service Assisted Communication" for Connected Devices post:
All connections to and from the device are...
There is good reason to be worried about the "Internet of Things" on current course and trajectory. Both the IT industry as well as manufacturers of "smart products" seem to look at connected special-purpose devices and sensors as a mere variation of the information technology assets like...
I have an immediate job opening for an open standard or multivendor transport layer security protocol that
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