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Re:Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-s... by hamilyon2 on Friday July 26, 2019 @05:39AM (#20533529)
Iot is already in consumer electronics space. It is firmly in the present, and it is worth the hassle for a lot of people.
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Re:Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-s... by jpindar on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:17PM (#20535907)
And it's been commonplace in industrial electronics for about 20 years. The reaction to it there was "It has an rs-232 over Ethernet adapter built in? That's convenient."
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Re:Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-s... by bashinator on Friday July 26, 2019 @03:58PM (#20537890)
My take on what makes the modern IoT different from just attaching networking to devices, is the mandatory cloud backend replacing in-house IT infrastructure. That's what's letting networked devices enter the mainstream consumer market.
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