Author Topic: Sensors Stop Sending MQTT Messages and have to reboot mcGW to start sending again.  (Read 1155 times)

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Hi Tomasu,

I understand your disappointment and frustration - There are many good reasons why we had to move to a new system and drop the legacy version such as:

- SECURITY - as you know, in IoT, security is a big ticket item (there are news reports everyday about hackers, etc). The older system, while a bit more 'open', does not include the security required for large-scale enterprise IoT solutions. As we are a business and focused mostly on B2B opportunities, this is a critical thing that we needed to address and as such, a system like mcCloud was necessary

- SCALABILITY - if you have used the legacy system for some time, you understand that it can be frustrating to update even 10 or 20 devices with new code or firmware as you had to physically touch/get close to the devices. Imagine trying to do this with 100 or 100,000 devices! mcCloud changes this and makes it SO MUCH easier to manage the devices at scale.

-VERSATILITY - Using mcCloud, you can now easily send information to multiple locations (like Azure, Losant, Ubidots, etc) from the cloud, instead of configuring your gateway to send the information to one location only. While this might be nice for a DIY person, it is not scalable for anytype of real IoT solution.

IMPROVEMENTS - Just like almost anything else, as technology gets better and new requirements need to be addressed, systems need to change. As such, we needed to move to the new system for all the above reasons and it allows us to continue to add new features and functions in the future.

Sorry to hear that you are going to move away from our platform. Hopefully the above gives you some understanding of why we we changed from legacy and why we can no longer support the old system.
Take care.
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