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We are firmly inside Industry 4.0, where manufacturing has taken on the label of “smart” through the integration of the IoT, AI, cyber-physical systems, Cloud and cognitive computing. But Industry 5.0 is becoming more and more a reality, which will bring an increased human touch back to manufacturing. Where Industry 4.0 put smart technology at…

The Eclipse Foundation has carried out its 6th annual IoT Developer Survey for 2020. Eclipse is the world’s largest open-source foundation focused on the Internet of Things. The survey was conducted by the Eclipse IoT Working Group, and it provides useful insights into the IoT industry.It highlights the challenges faced by developers and possible opportunities…

This will be the year the IoT becomes a mature, practical, technology. Here are a few thoughts on what we can expect in the next 12 months. The IoT will see wider adoption and faster development The IoT has grown a lot in the past few years both in terms of adoption and investment and…

Waterstream version 1.3.0 introduces MQTT version 5.0 support, alongside multiple improvements – including better metadata, easier debugging, more lightweight communication, scaling out reads capability, and much more. Let’s take a look what Waterstream users can gain from switching to MQTT version 5.0: Message properties Somewhat similar to HTTP headers, message properties contain metadata, such as…

Event streaming with Apache Kafka at the edge is commonly used to provide the same open, flexible, and scalable architecture at the edge as in the cloud or data centre. Possible locations for a Kafka edge deployment include retail stores, cell towers, trains, small factories, restaurants, etc. “Edge Kafka” is not simply another IoT project…

SimpleMatter, the tech startup behind Waterstream, is proud to announce its membership of the Eclipse Foundation. As a Contributing Member of the Foundation, SimpleMatter is looking forward to collaborating with the other members to drive innovation in IoT technology. “We are very excited to be part of this new European reality now that Eclipse has…

We are proud to announce that Waterstream version 1.3.0 brings support of the bridge mode. A flexible way to utilize an existing MQTT data source for testing and data ingesting in Kafka. With the bridge you can establish a bidirectional or unidirectional connection between Waterstream and another MQTT broker and get your messages replicated between…

We’re happy to announce that starting from version 1.0.17 Waterstream also provides an ARM-compatible Docker image. Use simplematter/waterstream-kafka-arm64v8-minified image if you want to run it on ARM CPU (such as AWS a1 series instance), simplematter/waterstream-kafka-minified – on traditional x86 CPU. See the quickstart guide: https://docs.waterstream.io/quickstart.html .

New website is online Waterstream was built by maniacs of good code and excellent performance, if you want to try it, you will confirm its very good scalability properties. But we felt that the website was not meeting such a good standard. So, we worked really hard these weeks to give Waterstream a new home…

Waterstream is an verified Confluent integration We are very excited to announce from today Waterstream is officially Kafka integration verified by Confluent. In other words Waterstream is a fully supported partner integrations that meet a standard level of functional compatibility with the Confluent Platform ecosystem. We are in good company with other important vendors like Mongo…