MQTT enabling the smallest "things"

The MQTT and MQTT-SN (see mqtt.org) protocols are being widely used for IoT applications because of their simplicity and low overheads. The Paho embedded client libraries for MQTT and MQTT-SN have been designed to minimize size and avoid dependencies on system libraries. This makes them suitable for use in just about any environment with a C or C++ compiler, regardless of operating system or networking library.

This session will describe the libraries; how they are split into layers of varying size and helpfulness, and how they can be ported to the environment of your choice. It will be illustrated with examples of use on platforms such as mbed and Arduino.

Presenter: Ian Craggs [IBM]

An overview of Eclipse IoT

Benjamin Cabé, from the Eclipse Foundation, gives an overview of the Eclipse IoT community.

Slides from the talk are available here: http://fr.slideshare.net/kartben/overview-of-eclipse-iot-projects-iot-day-grenoble

How small is An Atom?

Atoms are very weird. Wrapping your head around exactly how weird, is close to impossible – how can you describe something that is SO removed from humans experience? But then again, they kind of make up everything, so let us try anyways.