The Internet of Broken Things (hackaday.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 9, 2016 @01:03AM from the if-it-ain't-broke-it-will-be dept.

szczys writes: The Internet of Things is all the hype these days. On one side we have companies clamoring to sell you Internet-Connected-everything to replace all of the stuff you already have that is now considered "dumb." On the other side are security researchers screaming that we're installing remote access with little thought about securing it properly. The truth is a little of both is happening, and that this isn't a new thing. It's been around for years in industry, the new part is that it's much wider spread and much closer to your life. Al Williams walks through some real examples of the unintended consequences of IoT, including his experiences building and deploying devices, and some recent IoT gaffs like the NEST firmware upgrade that had some users waking up to an icy-cold home.

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The stuff is just too expensive by bangular · 2016-02-09 01:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

I think what will kill iot is that it's just frankly too expensive. A perfect example is the Belkin WeMo line of iot enabled products.

* 150 dollars for a slow cooker

* 150 dollars for a coffee maker

* 200 dollars for a humidifier

* 40 dollars for a plugin relay switch

And the list goes on. The nest costs 5x-10x more than a low end digital thermostat. I have a sneaking suspicion as with almost all other home automation, upper class people will buy it for the novelty but the rest of the world will keep to their "dumb" devices.