MQTT is extremely easy, lightweight and resilient to interruptions
MQTT is one of the main proponents of IoT - you & your team would do well to spend 15 mins exploring it (its that easy)
Once your data is in MQTT Broker - its avaiable for so much more.
If you use websockets only - you can get it done, but you will not gain from the may benefits of having your data available in an MQTT broker.
Easy peasy...
Check out how easy it is yourself with this little demo I did for someone else shying away from it because he didnt know MQTT
for your web devs...
In my WEB pages, I use the MQTT.js package.
closing argument...
It is of course yours (and your teams) choice - but I would put money on you ending up down the MQTT path sooner or later (especially when you decide you need the data available to other applications that either already (or will soon) support MQTT)
