Standardized Communication Between Intelligent Products for the IoT*

In our vision of the Internet of Things, it is possible to easily query and set up information flows between any kinds of products, devices, computers, users and information systems in general. However, for the moment it is not possible due to the lack of sufficiently generic and standardized application-level interfaces for exchanging the kind of information required by an Internet of Things. The Quantum Lifecycle Management (QLM) messaging standards have been developed and are proposed as a standard application-level interface that would fulfill such requirements. The article presents the design principles and provides a high-level description of QLM messaging. Real-life implementations illustrate why such a messaging interface is needed and compares it with related standards.