The Hub of the Smart Home(medium.com)
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The Hub of the Smart Home
https://medium.com/@maghis/the-hub-of-the-smart-home-bfa504d08c9d
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I don't believe NEST or any other device will ever be the "hub", that is my opinion, open to discuss about it.
I think that the author says that he doesn't think there will be a "hub". And, personally, I agree on this.
I agree. However, there's a HUGE need for a hub of some kind. Possibly, open for anybody to develop on top of it.
Totally, but I don't think it's going to be a physical device.
So, after we could all witness the massive conflicts of interest (with regards to their users) and privacy problems that emerge when there is a single entity that collects, stores and distributes your data, we should do the same thing with the IoT, except, this time we'll give this entity physical access to our house.
I agree with his sentiment that this will be the likely future. I just disagree that this is a developent to look forward to.
As for the argument that finding a common interface to turn on a lightbulb is impossible, because <i>our</i> lightbulb is so special, I dont buy this. Standards like DLNA show that it is possible to develop interfaces for much more sophisticated problems and actually make them work in the real world.