IRC-IoT is the universal protocol for building Internet of things (IoT)
More info about IRC-IoT protocol you can find at http://irc-iot.org/?lang=en
JavaIRCIoT is a demonstration library for the implementation of the functions of the IRC-IoT protocol
There is also a workable version of the library in Python language: https://github.com/Markatrafik/PyIRCIoT