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I suppose, I was thinking the appliance caught fire (neighbors electric kettle did this a few year ago, not IoT). Shutting it off doesn't put out the fire. Or

I suppose, I was thinking the appliance caught fire (neighbors electric kettle did this a few year ago, not IoT). Shutting it off doesn't put out the fire. Or, soup boils over edge of pot - I have to clean that mess either way. Maybe once IoT is sufficiently advanced, with robots and stuff, it turns into the "household servants for the Every Man" noted above. And I'm not anti-tech. I have some IoT stuff (cameras) that serve no real purpose other than "look, I have cameras!"

setr 6y ago
Again, ideally, everything is so well connected you'd just stop the problem before it occurs, with sufficiently smart devices. Eg, your pot detects the rise, and sees its about to overflow, it can signal the stove to lower the heat. Same with the kettle -- it gets on fire when it runs out of water, but stays on. A "smart" kettle could detect that, and shut down before the fire starts. Of course, after the fire, there's nothing it can do... but targetting the cause rather than the symptom has potential, for probably many issues But to be clear, I'm not advocating anything -- I'm just describing why IoT is a thing, and people get excited for. I don't actually believe this universe will really exist anytime soon, as it requires "sufficiently intelligent" technology and communication, which really almost starts to approach knowing how to cook your food for you to accomplish anything non-trivial But the belief is what drives this tech.