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 ...

IoT protocols and communication standards refer to the vast network of devices that are connected to the Internet and can exchange data with each other. Learn more about IoT software development ...

While industrial technology infrastructure has numerous components, two of the most prominent are the systems that manage the flow of information—that is, information technology (IT)—and those that ...

Editor’s Note: The MQTT lightweight messaging protocol is a fundamental part of the technical foundation of most IoT applications and their underlying services. Taken from the book, MQTT Essentials – ...

Not all connected devices are made equal. While some are more powerful and technologically advanced, others are simple sensors and home automation devices with limited energy, memory, computational ...

Linking all kinds of different sensors and devices together is the overarching goal of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. But the Internet Protocols (IP) required to achieve this goal create ...

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 ...

In a previous article, I discussed the vulnerabilities in IoT networks, illustrating that traditional security measures fall short in addressing their unique challenges. I also briefly introduced ...

Wireless standards are plentiful, but most are not capable of being scaled to the level of a smart city. As a result, such networks have been built application-by-application using proprietary stacks, ...

The field technologies industry is ripe for cloud adoption leveraging the IoT infrastructure of the major cloud service providers like Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. For ...