Telemetry
In 1999, Stanford-Clark collaborated with Arlen Nipper to author the first version of the MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. MQTT is a specialised protocol enabling telemetry or lightweight sensor and mobile systems to provide information to computer programs via a publish/subscribe mechanism.
Stanford-Clark gained media attention for this in the late 2000s by connecting his home automation system via MQTT to Twitter, a popular microblogging site.
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