Protocols that Connect: Choosing What Works

Behind every successful IoT system lies an invisible decision that determines everything else: protocol choice. Protocols that Connect: Choosing What Works cuts through standards confusion to explain how communication choices shape performance, scalability, and longevity.
This book is practical and opinionated. It examines why protocols exist, what tradeoffs they encode, and how mismatched choices lead to fragile systems. Rather than listing specifications, it frames protocols as design decisions influenced by power constraints, latency needs, reliability requirements, and deployment realities.
Readers learn how protocol choices affect device behavior, system complexity, and future flexibility. The book emphasizes choosing what fits—not what is fashionable—and understanding the cost of switching too late.
You will examine:
• Why protocol choice defines system limits early
• How power, latency, and scale influence communication
• Where interoperability promises break down
• Why “one protocol for everything” fails
• How to future-proof IoT communication decisions
This book is for engineers, architects, and technical leaders who design connected systems that must last. If you want IoT that works quietly, reliably, and for years—not demos that break—this book helps you choose what truly connects.