Secure IoTs? Depends on what you mean by that. Standards like Z-Wave and Zigbee are already somewhat safer from remote tampering than WiFi-enabled devices since they operate on their own network. Hacking into them remotely or making them send data to a 3rd party involves hacking the central controller (if that controller even is connected to the Internet, though it often is). Certainly possible but it's a considerable extra hurdle. The networks themselves are fairly easy to hack, though the new version
The real problem with the IoT is that everyone and their brother is trying to be the One True Provider of All Home Automation, and they want to do it in the cloud so they can charge you for integrating with everyone else's clouds. Nest has the whole Nest-Certified thing, running in the cloud. Samsung has the Samsung Smart Home, running your washers, dryers, and air conditioners in their cloud. AssureLink will happily run your garage door openers in their cloud. Honeywell has their thermostat system, in
Laugh if you want, but I really do have two "clouds" controlled by my smart house. They're ultrasonic mist emitters that fill our orchid-growing cabinets with fog, three times a day. It keeps the humidity inside the glass cases above 95%, which is ideal for some of the equatorial cloud-forest species.
And yes, the electrical plug is kept safely outside of the cabinets. Condensing humidity is a very bad environment for electrical appliances.
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The convenience is worth the risk. The dumb-ass majority has spoken.
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Fair point. But did they have any other options?
Are there secure IoTs?
Maybe, just maybe, the developers/manufacturers are at some fault.
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The real problem with the IoT is that everyone and their brother is trying to be the One True Provider of All Home Automation, and they want to do it in the cloud so they can charge you for integrating with everyone else's clouds. Nest has the whole Nest-Certified thing, running in the cloud. Samsung has the Samsung Smart Home, running your washers, dryers, and air conditioners in their cloud. AssureLink will happily run your garage door openers in their cloud. Honeywell has their thermostat system, in
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what happens when the cloud rains on my electrical plug socket? I was always told that was a bad thing!!
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Laugh if you want, but I really do have two "clouds" controlled by my smart house. They're ultrasonic mist emitters that fill our orchid-growing cabinets with fog, three times a day. It keeps the humidity inside the glass cases above 95%, which is ideal for some of the equatorial cloud-forest species.
And yes, the electrical plug is kept safely outside of the cabinets. Condensing humidity is a very bad environment for electrical appliances.