Tag Archives: MQTT

Running the eclipse-mosquitto MQTT Broker in a docker container

Director at Feabhas Limited
Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
Niall Cooling

I first wrote about MQTT and IoT back in 2012, when I developed a simple C based library to publish and subscribe Quality of Service (QoS) level 0 MQTT messages.

Subsequently, MQTT has grown to be one of the most widely used IoT connectivity protocols with direct support from service such as AWS. Back in 2010, the first open-source MQTT Broker was Mosquitto. Mosquitto is now part of the Eclipse Foundation, and an iot.eclipse.org project, sponsored by cedalo.com.

Another area that has […]

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IoT – MQTT Publish and Subscriber C Code

Director at Feabhas Limited
Co-Founder and Director of Feabhas since 1995.
Niall has been designing and programming embedded systems for over 30 years. He has worked in different sectors, including aerospace, telecomms, government and banking.
His current interest lie in IoT Security and Agile for Embedded Systems.
Niall Cooling

With the buzz around the Internet-of-Things (IoT), I felt I needed to get in on the act. For those that follow my twitter feed (@feabhas) you may be aware of the “home project” I’ve been working on. This project is based around the mbed platform to which I have connected a DS18B20 temperature sensor. The overall goal is to record the water temperature of my son’s fish tank, however due to water quality issues, it is currently sampling the air […]

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