[Development] Qt and IoT infographic

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 25 August 2017 00:17:02 PDT Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote:
> > So where's the information about local network discovery and
> 
> communication?
> Where's the strategy on common protocols and data models? Publish and
> subscribe of notifications?
> 
> (adding a vote for support of Zeroconf in Qt :
> https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-30823)
> 
> I think that the Pub - Sub support is covered in part by the recent MQTT
> addition :
> https://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/08/14/introducing-qtmqtt-protocol/

Haven't seen that in the repository, so it doesn't count.

> though one would hope that each IoT *protocole du jour* won't have its own
> separate implementation
> and instead there can be some generic that implements pub-sub, a bit like
> QIODevice.

Maybe, but it's actually unlikely. Each protocol woill probably be different 
enought hat we may need different API.

If only we could get the industry to agree to a single or at most a handful of 
protocols (from experience in the sector, that's not MQTT).

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