Blog Posts

In the past year, IoT events and IoT meetup groups have been created all over the world. A lot of the Meetup groups, including the one I attend in Ottawa, have great content and networking opportunities. Similarly, there is a wealth of IoT events that you can attend throughout the...

I am thrilled to announce the Eclipse Board of Directors has formally approved the creation of the Eclipse IoT top-level project. This is an important milestone for our vision of creating an open source community that is creating the technology to power the Internet of Things (IoT). Less than two...

What I really like with MQTT and CoAP is that they both are very simple protocols. When dealing with MQTT, the client itself has almost no state to maintain (at least when you stick to QoS 0 communications) and granted that you have an MQTT packet serializer/unserializer, it’s very simple...

This week Eclipse Marketplace hit a very significant milestone: 10 MILLION successful installs. What a great example of the vibrancy in the Eclipse ecosystem. Over the last 4 years, Eclipse users have successfully installed a plugin into Eclipse over 10 million times. Eclipse Marketplace Client was introduced as part of...

Last week, AUDI, BMW and Daimler announced they are joining forces to form the Eclipse openMDM Working Group to create a new open source community to develop and distribute tools for managing automotive test data. These leading automotive OEMs will be joined in the group by Canoo Engineering AG, GIGATRONIK...

I recently attended a conference session on the topic of getting user feedback. One of the key takeaways for me was that people lie about how they use software. It’s not that they’re trying to be misleading, it’s more that it’s easy to misrepresent yourself out of context. The speaker...

Last week at Google I/O, the Android Wear platform was officially launched, together with two smart watches from LG and Samsung. I wanted to play around with the new APIs for Wear devices for an upcoming blog post on how to use MQTT with you smart watch, but I had...

I am a big believer that the maker/open hardware community is and will be a huge engine of innovation for the Internet of Things (IoT). Devices like, Arduino, BeagleBone and Raspberry Pi’s make it so easy to prototype and create new IoT solutions. Of course with open source software for...

Last week I spoke at the IoT World event in Palo Alto. It was one of the best IoT events I’ve attended with lots of interesting speakers and attendees. Here are some links and highlights: 1. IoT Market Segmentation. Patrick Moorehead, an industry analyst, did a presentation on the market...

We have published the results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2014. Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey this year. The complete results and data are available for anyone to download [ xls] [ ods]. As in other years, I think the results provide an interesting perspective on...