About 15 years ago, Andy Stanford Clark's house became something of a news item, in the days before tweeting IoT devices were a thing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bl

About 15 years ago, Andy Stanford Clark's house became something of a news item, in the days before tweeting IoT devices were a thing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/06/things_that_tweet.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/06/things_that_t... The core protocol, devised in the days when 1 byte over a satellite link cost $1, is incredibly efficient and simple to implement.