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Homes tend to have internet connections!
by newsclues 3y ago
Homes tend to have internet connections!
- c0wb0yc0d3r 3y agoWhat if the home is unoccupied? What if the user has a data cap? What if the user has a misconfigured firewall? Personally, with the exception of friends and family phones and tablets, I say "not my device, not my network, not my problem."
- bombcar 3y agoYou just set it so that if there’s a communication issue, it defaults to some “high cost” mode. People will plug it into the Internet to get their little discount.
- newsclues 3y agoExactly if it’s not broadcast, periodically the old manual system kicks in and the financial incentives to encourage use makes sense. And network security is another important aspect that can be a challenge but ultimately a benefit if better network security is needed and implemented standard with a clan for iot
- bombcar 3y agoIf it were done intelligently (hint: it won't be) they'd be IoT devices designed to ONLY transmit outwards in some encoded method, so that the only risk patterns are leaking data and failing to send data. Of course, in a intelligent world, the local power utility would be just that, local, and only involved in the last-mile connections of power and fiber, and let who actually sends down those be handled at the central "hubs". Then since data and power were handled by the same company, your electric meter would just have a connection to your fiber router. This would be too easy so it won't ever be done.
- rjsw 3y agoThe meters tend not to have a user interface that would allow someone to configure them to connect to the home internet router.
- mnw21cam 3y agoOh heck no. I have enough concerns about the security of those devices, I certainly don't want them hanging off the side of everyone's home network. I have enough expertise to put them on a separate network isolated from anything I care about, but the average punter doesn't.