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I personally think the real answer is not to have a central device, but to spread it out into a peer2peer 'fog'. There's been some movement in industrial appli
by ultimape 11y ago
I personally think the real answer is not to have a central device, but to spread it out into a peer2peer 'fog'.
There's been some movement in industrial applications via stuff like https://twitter.com/FilamentHQ https://twitter.com/FilamentHQ which leverages hardware accelerated ECC and telehash, using blockchain based DNS systems and other decentralized methods of command and control.
I think a similar direction needs to be taken for consumer hardware and data. The cloud needs to become just another peer.
I've been working with a bunch of interesting ideas on trying to get a distributed IoT network setup using programmable blockchains and Eris industries stack as part of an internship with them.
- jsilence 11y agoI very much like the term "fog computing" for P2P anti-cloud software. Hope it catches on.
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- stephengillie 11y agoJust watch out for Namespace collisions with groups like AppFog in the Container space.
- notfunk 11y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_computing
- jefurii 11y ago"fog computing" is an awesome term!
- 1SockChuck 11y agoIt's been actively used by Cisco for several years. http://blogs.cisco.com/perspectives/iot-from-cloud-to-fog-computing http://blogs.cisco.com/perspectives/iot-from-cloud-to-fog-co...
- Natanael_L 11y agoWhy not both? In P2P networks you'll need reliable peers with sufficient capacity. Making a home server into an always connected peer could solve plenty of issues, such as with routing and hosting.