BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Organizations from around the world are collaborating at the OASIS open standards consortium to advance a lightweight reliable messaging transport protocol for the Machine-to-Machine (M2M)/Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace. The new OASIS Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) Technical Committee will develop a standardized version of the MQTT protocol.
MQTT is a publish / subscribe messaging transport protocol optimized to connect physical world devices and events with enterprise servers and other consumers. It is designed to overcome the challenges of connecting the rapidly expanding physical world of sensors, actuators, phones, and tablets with established software processing technologies.
“MQTT is well suited to underpin the world of M2M/IoT and mobile applications where resources such as bandwidth and battery power are at a premium. It is an extremely lightweight, simple yet reliable protocol, designed for use where small code footprints are often advantageous,” said Richard Coppen of IBM, who co-chairs the new OASIS MQTT Technical Committee, along with Raphael Cohn.
“At OASIS, we’ll be addressing IoT data flow challenges and other issues that have been identified by the community,” added Cohn. “We’ll broaden the range of enterprise solutions by enabling integration with business applications and expanding connectivity to different types of networks and remote devices.”
MQTT is already widely implemented across a variety of industries and applications. For example, MQTT has been used in sensors communicating to a broker via satellite links, over occasional dial-up connections with healthcare providers (medical devices), and in a range of home automation and small device scenarios. MQTT is well suited for mobile applications because of its small size, minimized data packets, and efficient distribution of information to one or many receivers.
The MQTT specification has been contributed to the OASIS MQTT Technical Committee by IBM and Eurotech, authors of the original version of the protocol.
“We applaud IBM and Eurotech for bringing MQTT into the OASIS open standards process. Companies feel more confident about implementing the protocol when they can actively participate in its future,” noted Laurent Liscia, OASIS CEO. “We’re very pleased that the MQTT Technical Committee will operate the OASIS Non-Assertion Intellectual Property Rights mode, which will provide added reassurance for developers and promote widespread adoption.”
New members are encouraged to join the OASIS MQTT Technical Committee at any time. Archives of the work are accessible to both members and non-members, and OASIS invites public review and comment on the work.
Support for OASIS MQTT
Eclipse Foundation
“The M2M industry will need to adopt
technology based on open standards and open source implementation to
ensure widespread adoption. MQTT is well on its way to being a key
standard for M2M applications. We are happy to be involved in the OASIS
MQTT standardization process and host the MQTT reference implementation
in the Eclipse Paho project.”
-- Mike Milinkovich. Executive
Director, Eclipse Foundation
Eurotech
“We are excited to encourage further adoption of
the MQTT protocol, which has the potential to simplify Internet of
Things applications and services. Connecting distributed devices using
this efficient and elegant protocol offers companies flexibility to
integrate disparate data sources like intelligent devices and sensors
into enterprise IT landscapes, to deliver truly useful and actionable
information that drives business decisions.”
-- Giampietro
Tecchiolli, CTO and Executive VP, Eurotech Group
IBM
"We are excited to be working with OASIS on
standardizing the MQTT protocol to unify communications for billions of
mobile devices, machines and sensors, across networks. This Technical
Committee and the Eclipse PAHO open source project are important
ingredients for building a Smarter Planet. Just like HTTP and HTML
transformed how we used the Internet, MQTT will accelerate how we all
interact with the Internet of Things."
-- Angel Diaz, Vice
President, Software Standards and Cloud, IBM
Kaazing
"As the enablers of the Living Web and HTML5
WebSocket technology, everyone at Kaazing is excited to support OASIS'
ongoing efforts to proliferate open standards and create a superior user
web experience. Standardizing MQTT and combining it with WebSocket
technology is an excellent strategy when building an event driven
architecture. Working alongside OASIS, Kaazing has developed a Living
Web in order to create the best possible web experience for users,
reduce complexity, and increase interoperability."
-- John
Fallows, Kaazing CTO and Co-Founder
M2Mi
“Machine-To-Machine Intelligence (M2Mi) is delighted
to participate in the development, awareness and adoption of MQTT as an
open industry standard for M2M/Internet of Things.”
-- Geoff
Brown, M2Mi CEO (and OASIS MQTT TC Secretary)
Software AG
“Software AG is very pleased to be part of the
OASIS standardisation effort for MQTT, an extremely lightweight
messaging middleware protocol that facilitates embedded / M2M systems
communication in real time. Leading research estimates 50 to 500 billion
devices will have a connection to the cloud by 2020 and Software AG is
excited to be already in a position to provide connectivity, integration
and analytics solutions to enterprises with such needs.”
--
Eddie McDaid, VP, Software AG.
Additional information
OASIS MQTT Technical Committee
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/mqtt/
OASIS is a non-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. OASIS promotes industry consensus and produces worldwide standards for M2M, IoT, security, privacy, cloud computing, content technologies, energy, emergency management, and other areas. OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology. OASIS members broadly represent the marketplace of public and private sector technology leaders, users, and influencers. The consortium has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.
