BROWSING: MQTT
IoT tracking in the supply chain (pt2) – how cellular IoT solved the global edge
Note, this article follows directly from a previous post (January 24) – about why logistics is the hardest industry of all for the IoT market to crack; both are taken from a new editorial report on the state of IoT in the supply chain...
Volume, complexity, security to drive IoT device management sales to $36bn by 2026
Global revenues from IoT device management services will top $36.8 billion by 2026, according to ABI Research. The forecast represents a compound annual jump (CAGR) of 17.1 percent, from around $16.7 billion at the end of 2021. It said spiralling interest in IoT device...
Portland upgrades to Dhyan’s streetlight platform, as Echelon fallout continues
The city of Portland in Maine, in the US, has migrated its smart street lights onto a cloud management platform (CMS)Â from California-headquartered Dhyan Networks and Technologies, and away from smart lighting company Echelon. It is the same switchover carried out by the town...
Ericsson intros new IoT Accelerator facility to connect cellular IoT devices to AWS, others
Ericsson has introduced a ‘cloud connect’ function into its IoT Accelerator platform to make it easy for enterprises to connect cellular IoT devices to public cloud endpoints. A press statement from the firm led with connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and included a...
MQTT provider and LPWA rival Thingstream snapped up by u-blox for $10.4m
Swiss IoT company u-blox has bought UK-based Thingstream, which offers low power wide-area (LPWA) IoT connectivity based on the MQTT lightweight messaging protocol. The sale closed for at CHF 10 million (€9.5m / $10.4m), plus coverage for some deferred staff retention.
MQTT, short for message...
MQTT protocol minimizes network bandwidth for the internet of things
MQTT and the internet of things.
MQ Telemetry Transport, invented in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM and Arlen Nipper of Eurotech, is an open standard messaging protocol created for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. Its design principles are to...
MQTT protocol minimizes network bandwidth for the internet of things
MQTT and the internet of things.
MQ Telemetry Transport, invented in 1999 by Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM and Arlen Nipper of Eurotech, is an open standard messaging protocol created for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency or unreliable networks. Its design principles are to...
Hacked IoT devices behind largest DDoS attack to date
An army of hacked IoT devices was used to conduct the two largest DDoS attacks to date.
Security experts have warned time and again that hacked IoT devices could cause serious security damage. Now might be a good time for IoT device makers and IT departments...