Global – October 30, 2026 -- Industrial architecture teams choosing between Sparkplug B and plain MQTT are really comparing the cost of maintaining a custom application contract with the cost of adopting and operating a shared one. Sparkplug B defines industrial conventions on top of MQTT. It does not replace MQTT or turn a broker into a historian.

Global – – October 30, 2026 -- Rising memory costs and constrained memory supply are forcing cellular IoT device makers to decide whether their own engineers or the module supplier will requalify components when parts become unavailable, according to Telit Cinterion.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Even QoS 2's exactly-once delivery covers only one MQTT sender-receiver flow, not the subscriber's database transaction, so an MQTT broker cannot serve as an industrial historian. A broker moves messages between publishers and subscribers. A historian keeps time-indexed records that engineers can query, trend and aggregate later.