Excerpt: Mike Bowers on MQTT’s benefits for digital transformation

Control Engineering recently featured FairCom Chief Architect Mike Bowers in an article on MQTT and digital transformation.

MQTT was designed with machine-to-machine communications in mind. Its streamlined network architecture and lightweight packet specification make it flexible enough for reconfigurable factory lines and scalable enough to support the addition of hundreds or even thousands of connected devices. “It’s the right paradigm for manufacturing,” said Mike Bowers, chief architect at FairCom. “I strongly believe that MQTT will do for manufacturing what the Internet did for everything else.”

Read the full article here.