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Arlen Nipper

Arlen Nipper is president and CTO of Cirrus Link. With over 38 years of experience in the SCADA industry, Nipper was one of the early architects of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things and co-inventor of MQTT, a publish-subscribe network protocol. His experience covers a broad range of technology from the design and manufacturing of embedded systems to SCADA system infrastructure implementations. Arlen holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering (BSEE) from Oklahoma State University.

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    How IIoT Enables AI and Big Data

    Leveraging open standards like MQTT Sparkplug facilitates data modeling and self-discovery, establishing a source of truth at the edge.
    By: InTech, Arlen Nipper
    07 July, 2024 | 3 minutes
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    MQTT and Sparkplug 3.0: The Future of Industrial OT-IT Integration

    Technologists should understand why MQTT, why Sparkplug and how they work together to enable OT-IT integration. This feature originally appeared in AUTOMATION 2023: IIoT & Industry 4.0.
    By: Arlen Nipper
    11 December, 2023 | 4 minutes
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    MQTT and Sparkplug 3.0: The Future of Industrial OT-IT Integration

    Twenty-five years ago when I sat down with Andy Sanford Clark and invented MQTT, I couldn’t have imagined it would become the future of Industrial OT-IT integration, Arlen Nipper writes.
    By: Arlen Nipper
    05 June, 2023 | 4 minutes
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    Solving Communication Roadblocks with Immutable Data Records

    Today with the power of MQTT, records of data can be published, on event, as an immutable data record which automatically builds and populates a table within a database. An immutable data record is a set of values that has a security checksum wrapped around it for protection and validation.
    By: Arlen Nipper
    17 March, 2021 | 5 minutes
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    Industrial Digital Transformation Made Easy with MQTT

    By Arlen Nipper This article will look at the problems with proprietary manufacturing protocols and discuss how the open-standard MQTT can enable Digital Transformation.
    By: Arlen Nipper
    24 April, 2020 | 5 minutes
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