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Throttling MQTT Data

Throttling MQTT Data

Most MQTT brokers currently available on the market provide native support for WebSockets, thus enabling any MQTT JavaScript library to establish communications by encapsulating MQTT messages into WebSocket frames: this is called MQTT Over WebSocket.

However, the Internet unpredictability in terms of packet loss and available bandwidth, especially over mobile networks, makes this “dumb pipe” approach quite unreliable. For example, it might be both unfeasible and useless to send all big real-time data produced by IoT sensors to browser based applications and mobile apps, due to the risk to overload the network, the browser, and the user… In these cases, dynamic throttling is the key.

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