Blog Posts

1. Wunderbar – looks like an interesting kit of hardware and software for IoT applications. They seem to be using MQTT for the message protocol. 2. Comparing bandwidth consumption between MQTT, AMQP and TCP – perfect illustration on why an IoT protocol like MQTT is needed. 3. New MQTT-SN (Sensor...

Interesting links for the IoT and M2M Industry. 1. Axeda support for new SalesForce1 platform – SalesForce had their huge Dreamforce conference last week and a major theme was IoT. Axeda, a partner in Eclipse M2M, nailed it on the importance of machine data. 2. Amazon announced Kinesis service –...

IoT and M2M industry desperately needs to have open protocols that promote interoperability between different solutions and applications. The current state of the industry is a set of proprietary or best vertical oriented protocols that lead to silos of technology, not a network. MQTT is gaining a lot of interest...

Some interesting links from the IoT and M2M industry. 1. Adding OAuth to MQTT A couple of blog post from people thinking of adding OAuth to MQTT. Identity and authentication are issues that really have not been suitable addressed in IoT. It is great to see people talking about it...

Over the last 2 months, I have had the opportunity to attend three M2M events: M2M Summit, M2M World Congress and the ETSI M2M Workshop. All of these events had a significant participation by the big European telcos. In Europe and the US, the telcos are pumping a large amount...

The Eclipse logo has been in existence for over 10 years. It has served the community well but it is time for a bit of an update. To help create an updated logo I have started a design competition on designonclick. If you are a graphic designer or know of...

Links for the past week in the IoT and M2M industry. 1. 10 companies making the Internet of Things a Reality Interesting list of companies, especially since I have not heard of some of them, ex Schneider and Grundfos. The list is also missing some important companies, like GE, but...

James Governor recently blogged about his desire to have a good gender balance for his upcoming Thingmonk conference. This is something that I would like to see at our EclipseCon conferences. At the most recent EclipseCon Europe event we had only 27 women out of 589 attendees. Not very good...

If you’re using the task-focused UI from Mylyn, then you get a lot of help when it comes to assembling a message for your commit (if you’re not using the task-focused UI from Mylyn, then you need to re-examine your wasted life). Mylyn automatically populates the commit message in the...

Some IoT / M2M links from last week. 1. New Eclipse Project Proposal: Krikkit. Project proposal from Cisco about making edge devices smarter about IoT data. 2. New SmartHome Consortium including ABB, Bosch, Cisco and LG These companies should really look at Eclipse SmartHome. It would appear to help solve...