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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...

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...

Weekly links from the IoT and M2M industry. 1. Good article on ‘ Why open hardware matters’ Interesting to see Arduino and BeagleBone collaborating. Lots of people think Raspberry Pi is open hardware but in reality it is just really accessible hardware. It also seems like the Raspberry Pi has...

EclipseCon Europe starts is less than 2 weeks! As I am spending a lot my time on M2M and IoT I am really looking forward to the great line-up of M2M sessions. If you are interested in Eclipse M2M then it is definitely worth your time to attend. Bringing M2M...

Interesting links from the M2M and IoT world. IoT meets the Cloud – OpenIoT OpenIoT is a EU funded project to research IoT and the cloud. Not really sure what to make of it but something to watch. Comparing Protocols Another article comparing IoT protocols. Unfortunately it is missing CoAP...