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Yeah, this is the only sensible approach to the smart home. Especially since an Internet connection is much more unreliable then electricity.
by darkwater 7y ago
Yeah, this is the only sensible approach to the smart home. Especially since an Internet connection is much more unreliable then electricity.
- kchamplewski 7y agoThat depends heavily on where you live. If the most common type of power outage is one that affects a small region, it's quite likely internet connectivity could remain unaffected. I had this experience in northern Sweden, where I had a couple of power interruptions but zero network interruption.
- halbritt 7y agoI live in Oakland, CA. Internet is definitely more reliable than electricity. My smart home devices send me an email when there's a power outage.
- kevinschumacher 7y agoCould that be coming from the smart home device manufacturer noticing the device was abruptly disconnected?
- bcrosby95 7y agoMost people's home internet connection relies on electricity though. Internet will necessarily be less reliable than electricity for them.
- cbsmith 7y agoI just hook up a UPS and the first thing that is on it is my router and my key devices.
- klausjensen 7y agoIt is not just about power outages, it is also about cloud services closing, having outages etc - as in this post. If you only have devices that will work locally, that becomes much less of a problem.
- inamesh 7y agoEh. Depends on how mission critical it is. I don't mind an appliance needing the internet as long as I can still physically operate it during downtime.
- zpallin 7y agoWe should all move our homes into the nearest data center. I call the locker next to the Layer 3 drop.