One of the big problems with create a connected household — where thermostats spill to light swtiches which talk to coffee - making robot — is that there ’s a luck of communication protocol , and most of them are proprietary . But never reverence , a new standard ’s been agreed on : um , Faccebook Messenger .
More purely , it ’s the communications protocol that power Facebook Messenger ’s roving comms , Message Queuing Telemetry Transport , that ’s been chosen by a high - profile lot of companies as the future of the net of Things . MQTT was originally design for poppycock like mail telemetry data to and from satellites , so the focal point on low - bandwidth and low - baron was an ideal match for Facebook . The lightweight nature of the communications protocol should also number in passably handy when dozens of devices with low - power chipsets ( like those weak switch ) need to pass along .
The radical that ’s chosen MQTT as the protocol is pretty grievous , too — it ’s shout out haven ( The Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards ) , and has members including Cisco , IBM and the Eclipse Foundation . They ’ve got heritage , too — they ’re the mathematical group behind the sorta - popular OpenDocument data format . [ The Register ]
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