IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Custom Firmware, Soldering

Re:IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Cus... by baybal2 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:02AM (#25197339)

I will second that eventually smart home (accent on home, not household) will go full wired, while semi-disposable gadgets may well stay wireless, but the idea of fully wireless home automation is now out of the windows for so many reasons.

I had a discussion with one guy from IKEA who bid on "full wireless" because "it is where Apple, and Google go."

The conversation went all went fine for him until a moment of Zen enlightenment hit him: "Outside Europe, people live in concrete houses." That very moment the smile vanishes from his face, and the guy looked like he felt a total facepalm moment.

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Re:IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Cus... by tda on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:08AM (#25197377)

The only place I know where a lot of houses are made of wood are Scandinavia and North America. In the rest or Europe most houses are made of bricks and/or concrete as far as I can tell.

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Re:IoT Unravelled Part 2: IP Addresses, Network, Zigbee, Cus... by polack on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:33AM (#25208168)

Around half of the population in Scandinavia lives in apartments made out of concrete. It's not plausible that IKEA don't know that.

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