Your doorbell is already an IoT device, you just don’t own the other half of it Here’s the thing nobody tells you…
Read article →The problem this solves The VPN concentrator pattern covered elsewhere on this site, manually generating a key pair and adding a peer…
Read article →The problem this solves Temperature-sensitive goods, food, pharmaceuticals, certain chemicals, carry real compliance obligations around documented, continuous temperature monitoring, not just a…
Read article →The problem this solves A single site’s monitoring setup, covered throughout this site’s other guides, doesn’t automatically become a multi-site setup just…
Read article →The problem this solves Everything else on this site assumes devices with reasonably steady power and either Wi-Fi or a cellular connection.…
Read article →The problem this solves MQTT and Node-RED, covered in this site’s other guides, move and process data well, but neither is built…
Read article →The criteria, recapped This comparison applies the same criteria covered in detail in How to Choose a VPS for an IoT Project:…
Read article →The core trade-off, stated plainly Every “self-hosted vs managed” decision in software comes down to the same underlying exchange: money and convenience…
Read article →The problem with comparing these two on price alone AWS IoT Core and a self-hosted VPS aren’t really the same product wearing…
Read article →The problem this solves Modbus is a point-to-point, poll-and-response protocol: one master asks one slave for a specific register value, gets one…
Read article →The problem this solves A PLC at a remote site needs occasional engineering access (reprogramming, diagnostics) and often continuous data access (a…
Read article →The problem this solves Industrial sites are often geographically scattered, on connections you don’t fully control (cellular routers, site broadband of varying…
Read article →The problem this solves Installing Mosquitto, Node-RED and a database directly onto a VPS works fine until you need to upgrade one…
Read article →The problem this solves Building an IoT dashboard from individual pieces, an MQTT broker, Node-RED for logic, Grafana for visualisation, works well…
Read article →The problem this solves Vendor automation apps work fine until you want a rule that spans two vendors: “if the doorbell detects…
Read article →The problem MQTT actually solves Without a message broker, every device-to-device or device-to-dashboard connection is its own point-to-point integration: your doorbell talks…
Read article →The problem: a default VPS is not a secure VPS A freshly provisioned VPS arrives with root login enabled, password authentication on,…
Read article →VPS pricing pages are designed to be compared on the wrong axis: RAM and storage, in big bold numbers, because those are…
Read article →The problem this solves Most IoT projects start the same way: a device, a vendor app, and a cloud account you didn’t…
Read article →The name sounds more complicated than the idea. A hosting company runs one large, powerful physical server. Using virtualisation software (commonly KVM),…
Read article →You’ve probably used a dozen IoT devices today without thinking of them that way. The term gets thrown around so loosely that…
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