3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices

Re:3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiF... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:32PM (#15862968)

GP was talking about monitoring. Answering the question, "did I lock the door", doesn't require an Internet-connected lock with electronics and actuators. A simple backscatter status reporter using the tech presented in this article would be more than enough. Ditto for the gas cooker.

And speaking of smart locks - in the current IoT - that is, cloud-connected - version, they are just idiotic. Such things shouldn't be vendor-locked and their core functionality should be available over LAN. Even that PCMag article doesn't seem to recognize it, as they don't have an "works without Internet" row in their table.

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Re:3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiF... by noxToken on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @02:08PM (#15863927)

I'm definitely not an advocate. Anytime someone asks me about smart devices/IoT, my recommendations always defaults to "generic" devices. I think we give up too much of our privacy and control to vendors - especially when there are solutions that don't require cloud servers.

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