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How Many IoT Connected Devices Do You Own? How Do You Use/Manage Them?
I'm a connected device enthusiast, as a result of the connected device work I do at work. I find the market highly fragmented, the ecosystems are mostly walled gardens in the making and it leads to a broken customer experience.
Currently, I own a BLE toothbrush, locks / key pad access, cameras (outdoor and indoor), Echo, Garage Door opener, sprinkler system, thermostat and doorbell. It's a lot to manage. I find that I'm deeply engrained in the OEM app for the first couple weeks, to understand / tune configuration. But, after that, use is ad hoc or managed via alert driven interactions.
What do you own and how do you manage it all?
- existencebox 9y agoI'm probably the wrong IOT guy to answer, since my setup looks _nothing_ like yours, for reason of exactly what you're saying. (clusterfuck of managing discrete/heterogenous devices) I've ended up leveraging almost entirely RPI's/arduinos for just about everything, with some amount of homebrew fire-waiting-to-happen mess of soldering on top. this lets me manage all the pis with a single ansible deployment. I have my own on-prem "discount IFTTT" as well, but if lacking that, some service to that sort would also be critical for message based orchestration. (functionaly wise; I have the pis managing garage door, plant growing automation, cameras, media devices; halfway through getting some lights set up on one as well.)