4 Building Smarter Planet Solutions with MQTT and IBM WebSphere MQ Telemetry
1.1.3 Telemetry and the Internet
Telemetry technology allows things to be measured or monitored from a distance. In addition,
today, improvements in telemetry technology make it possible to interconnect measuring and
monitoring devices at different locations and to reduce the cost of building applications that
can run on these smart devices to make them even more useful.
People, businesses, and governments are increasingly turning to smart devices and
telemetry to interact more smartly with the world. A man shopping for groceries wants to know
what is currently in his pantry at home. A woman heading to Barcelona wants to know if flights
into that city are currently ...