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This has some interesting capabilities, but the big question is how well and how reliable? I've been doing a lot of smart home things recently, and the biggest
by pwthornton 10y ago
This has some interesting capabilities, but the big question is how well and how reliable?
I've been doing a lot of smart home things recently, and the biggest issue you run into is reliability. The level of reliability you want with your home is much higher than a lot of general-computing tasks are up for. Having your lights work 95% of the time is fairly annoying.
This device working off of AT&T's network, should presumably be fairly accurate if you have solid AT&T coverage. I find that home wifi networks are more prone to interface and intermittent operation than a good cellular network.
Is the humidity sensor in this device from AT&T accurate? Will a command from this device to another system work 99.99% of the time?
The other big issue, of course, is security. I couldn't find details about the level of security this comes baked in with.
- joezydeco 10y agoAccording to the user guide https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/starterkit-assets/ATT+Cellular+IoT+Starter+Kit+Hardware+User+Guide+v01.pdf https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/starterkit-assets/ATT+Cel... The sensor is an ST HTS221 capacitive humidity sensor. http://www.st.com/en/mems-and-sensors/hts221.html http://www.st.com/en/mems-and-sensors/hts221.html Honestly, this is just a development kit that AT&T contracted Avnet to design just to get developers using a cellular modem over AT&T's network. The development system (from Freescale and Avnet) and transport (Microsoft Azure, which is plenty secure) is unimportant.