For the last few months, I had been using Sparkfun’s Phant server as a data logger for a small science project. Unfortunately, they’ve had some serious technical issues and have discontinued the ...

One of the original and most important reasons Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) became the de facto protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) is its ability to connect and control devices that ...

MQTT is becoming a popular protocol for Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) data. Developed for connecting remote devices to a central server, it is lightweight, efficient, and secure. However, IoT ...

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 ...

Inductive Automation's Travis Cox announced Ignition Onboard and Ignition Edge Onboard at the Ignition Community Conference 2017. Embedding more functionality on plant floor devices has been a growing ...