Tag Archives: xmpp

XMPP versus MQTT: comparing apples with pears

Posted on 08/05/2015 by Eelco

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

Posted on 21/02/2013 by Eelco

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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How to use XMPP SASL EXTERNAL with Node.js

Posted on 26/04/2012 by Eelco

Almost a year ago I came across Node.js for the first time. Without going into details I must admit that a kind of like it. It has been useful to me in various projects. I especially like it for rapid … Continue reading →

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