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| author | Ndou, Henry |
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| contents | System-level telemetry is fundamental to modern remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and AI-driven infrastructure optimisation. Existing telemetry encodings such as JSON, JSON Lines, CBOR, and Protocol Buffers were designed for high-bandwidth, always-online environments. They impose significant overhead when deployed in bandwidth-constrained networks common across Sub-Saharan Africa, rural enterprise deployments, and unstable LAN environments. This paper introduces MTS-1 (Magenta Telemetry Standard v1), a novel delta-encoded binary telemetry format designed for offline-first system monitoring, LAN-assisted proxy delivery, and energy-efficient IoT-to-server transmission. We compare MTS-1 against JSON, JSON Lines, CBOR, MessagePack, and Protocol Buffers across payload size, encoding cost, network efficiency, and cost-latency performance. Synthetic benchmarking demonstrates preliminary compression improvements of up to 74.7% versus JSON and 5.4% versus MessagePack, with linear scaling characteristics across dataset sizes. |
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| spellingShingle | MTS-1: A Lightweight Delta-Encoded Telemetry Format optimised for Low-Resource Environments and Offline-First System Health Monitoring Ndou, Henry Software Engineering 68P30, 68M11, 94A29 System-level telemetry is fundamental to modern remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and AI-driven infrastructure optimisation. Existing telemetry encodings such as JSON, JSON Lines, CBOR, and Protocol Buffers were designed for high-bandwidth, always-online environments. They impose significant overhead when deployed in bandwidth-constrained networks common across Sub-Saharan Africa, rural enterprise deployments, and unstable LAN environments. This paper introduces MTS-1 (Magenta Telemetry Standard v1), a novel delta-encoded binary telemetry format designed for offline-first system monitoring, LAN-assisted proxy delivery, and energy-efficient IoT-to-server transmission. We compare MTS-1 against JSON, JSON Lines, CBOR, MessagePack, and Protocol Buffers across payload size, encoding cost, network efficiency, and cost-latency performance. Synthetic benchmarking demonstrates preliminary compression improvements of up to 74.7% versus JSON and 5.4% versus MessagePack, with linear scaling characteristics across dataset sizes. |
| title | MTS-1: A Lightweight Delta-Encoded Telemetry Format optimised for Low-Resource Environments and Offline-First System Health Monitoring |
| topic | Software Engineering 68P30, 68M11, 94A29 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01602 |