Not all connected devices are made equal. While some are more powerful and technologically advanced, others are simple sensors and home automation devices with limited energy, memory, computational ...

The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a lightweight application layer protocol specifically developed to meet the stringent requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Its design ...

A fascinating article from Philip N. Howard at George Washington University asserts that the number of connected devices surpassed the number of people on the planet in 2014 (Fig. 1). The author ...

Software developers face a wide range of protocol choices in creating applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). These applications need to be able to consume information from a large number of ...

There’s an often-impenetrable alphabet soup of protocols, standards and technologies around the Internet of Things. Here’s our attempt to wipe away some of the fog, in the hopes of making the language ...

The XMPP, CoAP, and MQTT protocols have distinct pros and cons; here’s a quick rundown of the trade-offs Real-time communication technology is an absolute requirement for the development of Internet ...

In the previous two articles, I described the hardware and software required to build an IoT device. These devices (the “Things” in the Internet of Things) are an essential part of an IoT system.

Last December, the Zigbee Alliance launched “Project Connected Home over IP” (CHIP) with the ambitious goal of enabling plug-and-play consumer IoT devices. Led by Amazon, Apple and Google, Project ...

IoT protocols and communication standards refer to the vast network of devices that are connected to the Internet and can exchange data with each other. Learn more about IoT software development ...