Reply to post: Re: Security

Half-baked security: Hackers can hijack your smart Aga oven 'with a text message'

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Re: Security

Yes, there is: cost. Even in 2017, the main benefit of IoT is the cheapness of the sensors and edge processing. These are still very limited devices in what they can do with KB of memory to work with, at best. Anything larger and your per device cost goes from £10's to £100's or more very quickly.

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