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Emerging Protocol Can Help Manage the Internet of Things
A proposal to use Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) as a standard for telemetry messaging could help enable smart devices to communicate with each other.
Credit: Government Computer News
Addressing the significant challenge of enabling all types of smart devices to communicate with one another in an Internet of Things, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has proposed using the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol as a standard.
MQTT is a protocol for telemetry messaging designed to be open, simple, and lightweight for use in constrained networks and multiplatform environments. Sensors and other devices, typically low-power and low-bandwidth, can use MQTT to communicate.
IBM, which is already using MQTT in its newly-released MessageSight appliance, predicts that by 2020 there will be 22 billion devices connected to the Internet that will produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, capable of filling 7 million DVDs per hour.
MQTT should enable bi-directional messaging as well as reliable messages on networks with limited bandwidth, and should have connectivity awareness for intermittently connected devices and networks, OASIS says. Furthermore, the standard should support high-volume bursts of data and an increasing variety of devices.
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