From the initial description on the article page, I was expecting an ad-hoc connection protocol letting devices interact with each other. It looks to me like th

From the initial description on the article page, I was expecting an ad-hoc connection protocol letting devices interact with each other. It looks to me like they are connecting devices on the local network rather than going to the cloud first (or at all). This is very similar to a platform I've been building lately. Even the idea of a 'server' and the capabilities of that server are similar (though I only started building the server yesterday).