MQTT is a communications protocol that connects the devices or ‘things’ that are elements of the Internet of Things (IoT) so that they can talk to one another and also stream data. In IoT technology, communication plays a major role and MQTT is ideal for low-powered devices with limited resources.
The term ‘Internet of Things’ was first used by Kevin Ashton in 1999 for interconnecting physical devices over the Internet. The basic idea is very simple – that physical devices can exchange data with each other or be controlled by others.
At Cisco, IoT is called the Internet of Everything, and the firm believes it will be the “…latest wave of the Internet — connecting physical objects… to provide better safety, comfort and efficiency.”
Within IBM, it is thought of as “…a completely new WWW, one comprised of the messages that digitally empowered devices would send to one another. It is the same Internet, but not the same Web.”
GE’s Industrial Internet directly envisions new applications. At GE, the Industrial Internet represents “…the convergence of machine and intelligent data… to create brilliant machines.”
At RTI (Real-Time Innovations), the IoT is considered to be “Your system, working as one.” It is believed to be as profound as the cell network, GPS, or the Internet itself. The IoT and the intelligent systems it enables are expected to fundamentally change the world.
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