Phillips 66 needed to monitor in remote areas where the only way to send data was via satellite. At the time:
In a small office at Phillips 66, Andy and Arlen sat down to build something from scratch because existing enterprise systems were too "bloated" for the job. They followed a few "bare bones" principles that still define MQTT today: What is MQTT? - MQTT Protocol Explained - AWS MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol
was incredibly expensive; every single byte literally cost thousands of dollars per year. Phillips 66 needed to monitor in remote areas
, and traditional communication methods (like "polling," where a server constantly asks "Do you have data yet?") were battery-draining and saturated the network just to stay connected. Latency was high , and connections were unreliable. The Invention: A Protocol Born in a Desert Office - MQTT Protocol Explained - AWS was incredibly