In theory I agree, but in my experience the 'IoT' bits are less reliable than the underlying physical component that's being monitored. What's more likely? A b

In theory I agree, but in my experience the 'IoT' bits are less reliable than the underlying physical component that's being monitored. What's more likely? A brushless motor fails, or my wifi password changes when I replace my router, I move my router and its out of range for the pool pump, the pool pump pushes out a bad update, the pool pump company goes out of business, some IoT specific electrical component fails before the actual pump fails, or something of that nature.