IoT for Microsoft developers

One of the biggest initiatives of 2014 was definitely the birth of DotNetPodcast, podcast completely in Italian and dedicated to Microsoft technologies. Guests are always of the highest level and earlier this year, I had the honor of being able to record an episode, completely dedicated to the Internet of Things and the development of IoT solutions using the .Net Micro Framework.

M2Mqtt on a Raspberry Pi with Mono project

A new use case for M2Mqtt library !! The case studies section of the official web site has a new great example usage !

Jon Gallant from Microsoft (IoT maker team) wrote an interesting article about his “maker experience” with a demo on using MQTT on a Raspberry Pi. In this scenario, he doesn’t use native C/C++ library available for MQTT but he made the great choice to use C# language and M2Mqtt library on Mono project !

The article describers all the steps to setup the entire demo from hardware to Mono installation on the Raspberry Pi and example code execution.

Great to see another M2Mqtt use case but this time on a Linux environment !

MQTT OASIS 3.1.1 : official support for M2Mqtt and GnatMQ

After about a month of work during my free time, it's finally time to release the new version of the M2Mqtt library (4.0.0.0) and the related GnatMQ broker (0.9.3.0 Beta) with the MQTT OASIS 3.1.1specification support (in addition to some bug fixes).

Explore the "Windows for IoT" image for Intel Galileo (Gen2) easily on your PC !

Did you join the Windows Developer Program for IoT and now you are waiting for the board or have ordered an Intel Galileo (Gen2) on which you will load the Windows image made ​​available on the official website ? Are you waiting for the board but you are curious to know what are the components included in the Windows for IoT ?

There is a solution !

Mobile Camp : demo and slides on geolocation using MQTT

Thursday, October 23 there was in Naples the "Mobile Camp" organized by Microsoft with my community DotNetCampania and focused on the development on Windows Phone and Windows platforms.

M2Mqtt is officially part of the Paho project !

Who knows the MQTT protocol, used in the Internet of Things market, also knows that the reference project for it is Paho of the Eclipse Foundation.

This project provides a lot of client implementations of MQTT in all main programming languages ​​such as C/C++ (for Windows or Linux and for embedded systems), Java (J2SE and Android), JavaScript, Python and Go.

In this large list, until a few days ago, an implementation in C# usable on .Net and WinRT platforms was missing . This gap was filled with my M2Mqtt project that is now officially under Paho umbrella for which I’m officially a committer !

Individual Member of AllSeen Alliance for the AllJoyn project on Internet of Things

In December 2013, the Linux Foundation announced the AllSeen Alliance, a consortium dedicated to the development and innovation in the Internet of Things market in our homes and industrial environments.

Windows for IoT : MQTT on Intel Galileo board

One of the main features of an “object” in the Internet of Things world is its ability to exchange messages, sending data or receiving commands, as effectively and efficiently as possible. There are several standard protocols for this purpose but one of my favorites is MQTT.

Internet of Things and the washing machine at Community Days 2014

This time another new and exciting experience as speaker … at Community Days 2014 in Rome with all Microsoft italian communitis !

For the first time, I had the honour to have a session with me “big” friend Valter Minute, from which you never stop learning something new. Of course, the topic was the Internet of Things and this time with a washing machine as protagonist !

M2Mqtt Spy : Windows Store and Windows Phone companion app to “spy” MQTT traffic

M2Mqtt Spy is an application for analyzing MQTT traffic and it is based on M2Mqtt client (http://www.m2mqtt.net). With this application you can connect to an MQTT broker (local or remote) with following features : publish message on a specific topic (with QoS 0), subscribe to one or more topics, receive and show messages on topics.