MQTT Market Trends for 2024: Cloud, Unified Namespace, Sparkplug, Kafka Integration
16 min readMar 8, 2024
The lightweight and open IoT messaging protocol MQTT gets adopted more widely across industries. This blog post explores relevant market trends for MQTT: cloud deployments and fully managed services, data governance with unified namespace and Sparkplug B, MQTT vs. OPC-UA debates, and the integration with Apache Kafka for OT/IT data processing in real-time.