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What is MQTT? | Cedalo's Roger Light | Internet of Things Podcast

IoT For All Podcast · 10 Oct 2023 · 14m · Episode 315

What this episode covers

Roger Light, Senior Developer at Cedalo and inventor of the open-source Mosquitto MQTT broker, explains the fundamentals of the MQTT protocol, its publish-subscribe architecture, and its dominance in the IoT space. He discusses how to evaluate different MQTT brokers based on resource constraints and scalability, emphasizing the importance of security features like TLS and client certificates. Light also outlines key use cases such as industrial monitoring and railway signaling, while addressing the varying challenges organizations face when scaling MQTT deployments.

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Cedalo, San Arlo
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Mosquitto, Sparkplug
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Lora

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