OASIS Technical Committee to produce MQTT standard
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013I was in Boston (US) yesterday to attend the kick off meeting of the OASIS MQTT Technical Committee (TC).
“As an M2M/Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity protocol, MQTT is designed to support messaging transport from remote locations/devices involving small code footprints (e.g., 8-bit, 256KB ram controllers), low power, low bandwidth, high-cost connections, high latency, variable availability, and negotiated delivery guarantees.”
More information on the OASIS MQTT TC web page and at mqtt.org.
I’ve been using (and testing with) MQTT for some time in various applications. I had meant to blog about my team’s ‘Buildosaurous’ at Christmas time. He was originally a night light until I upgraded him with a BlinkM Programmable RGB led, connected him to an arduino and subscribed him (over MQTT) to a ‘build event’ topic. He now passes his time sat on a desk flashing various colours during builds and then resolving to Green or (occasionally) Red based on the BVT results. The next model may even track down whoever brakes the build


