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Gianmaria Meriano
Mative CEO & Founder

Founder and CEO of Mative. A mechanical designer in Bologna, then a software developer and cloud architect in healthcare, after twelve years of work with new technologies he designed a cloud-connected OBD reader based on ESP32, the start of the Synapsis project, and founded Mative.

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MQTT Basics

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Gianmaria Meriano
Mative CEO & Founder
MQTT protocol linking IoT sensors, a cell tower, a laptop and a server

MQTT is a lightweight publish/subscribe messaging protocol for the Internet of Things: clients publish messages on topics, and a central broker filters them and pushes them to the clients subscribed to those topics. It needs minimal bandwidth, copes with unreliable networks and is easy to implement, which makes it a leading choice for machine-to-machine (M2M) communication between constrained devices and server applications.