Category Archives: protocols

XMPP versus MQTT: comparing apples with pears

Recently I had a discussion about using either XMPP or MQTT within an IoT project. One of the arguments for MQTT was that its a very efficient protocol with very little overhead where XMPP is considered very verbose. Of course … Continue reading

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XMPP Service Discovery extensions for M2M and IoT

Within the Webinos project we have investigated if we could use XMPP as the signalling protocol. Although it was decided by the Webinos project not to use XMPP in Webinos we believe we’ve made some interesting observations and solutions for … Continue reading

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