> Will this mean your smart home will have unstoppable connectivity you can't turn off? No. Thread is a mesh networking protocol for smart home devices. A ligh

> Will this mean your smart home will have unstoppable connectivity you can't turn off? No. Thread is a mesh networking protocol for smart home devices. A light switch, window sensor and a dehumidifier can be linked together. The light switch and the dehumidifier could be far enough apart where there would be connectivity issue; using thread, they can talk to each other via the window sensor. I believe they're using the IPv6 non-routable address space. The way to remotely access these devices is through a border router, like a HomePod or an Apple TV. And because it's an open standard, all of the big guys—Apple, Google, Samsung and others—have come together on this standard, making it easier to mix and match smart home devices that previously only worked in Apple's or Google's or whoever's proprietary ecosystems.