The home automation paradox. Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Scott Jenson’s blog, Exploring the World Beyond Mobile. This lightly edited version is republished here with permission. The level of hype around the “Internet of Things” (IoT) is getting a bit out of control. It may be the technology that crashes into Gartner’s trough of disillusionment faster than any other. But that doesn’t mean we can’t figure things out. Quite the contrary — as the trade press collectively loses its mind over the IoT, I’m spurred on further to try and figure this out. In my mind, the biggest barrier we have to making the IoT work comes from us. We are being naive as our overly simplistic understanding of how we control the IoT is likely going to fail and generate a huge consumer backlash. But let’s backup just a bit. But of course, it’s much more than just coffee machines.
The luddites will always crawl out and claim this is creepy or scary in the same way that answering machines were dehumanizing. More Sensors Summary.
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Home Information Security. Half a million homes losing 4Mbps of broadband speed, says TalkTalk. More than half a million UK homes are losing out on roughly 4Mbps of broadband speed according to new research from TalkTalk. The loss of speed is chiefly caused by poor home wiring and routers not being configured properly. Other factors have an impact on speed reduction too. TalkTalk’s survey of 25,000 UK homes found that microfilters hadn’t been installed and in some cases people weren’t connecting their routers to the master socket. Of the 25,000 homes visited, TalkTalk Bright Sparks engineers found that: 31% - lost speed through poor wiring 20% - needed routers set up or reconfigured 17% - needed the phone socket properly set up 14% - needed an ADSL broadband filter 13% - had other problems such as customers not connecting routers to the master socket TalkTalk commissioned the research as a way of promoting its Bright Sparks home engineers service.
“People need to think of broadband in the same way as water and electricity.