IoT server thought

[Peter Robinson]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Les Howell <hlhowell at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
>         I just had a thought about IoT for the future...
>
>         In a typical house for one of us, I suspect that our current
> modems supply up to 25 or 30 connections when we have company, given
> cellphones, desktops, laptops, pads, and whatever else our company may
> be carrying, and that is not even a very large family.  Gamers might be
> more.
>
>         My home is small for the US, but even in it, if I went total
> IoT on the things I use, I could consume nearly 60 devices if it were
> totally connected.
>
>         In the companies I worked for they had air-gapped the internal
> systems networks from the outside networks and guest networks.  But
> that implies some investment in servers and modems, and is not likely
> to happen in peoples homes, unless the setup, costs and maintenance are
> low.  Also I looked at moving my home to a cellphone solution, and
> their modems generally seem to support only 10 devices.  Some cable
> modems have similar restrictions. Thus to accomplish this would require
> two or more modems, some control software, some additional cabling, and
> more network knowledge than I have right now.  The hardware investment
> along would likely be about $300 to do it with commercial stuff.
>
> Could a group be formed to somehow create some kind of server node, say
> with Raspberry PI or similar hardware to support a dual network,
> internal and external users and local control as a third branch that
> might address these issues?  If it could support fibre, and ADSL, I
> think it could be a really useful product in the relatively near
> future.
>
> I am not a networking guy, although I have had some background in that
> area, so my contribution is probably limited to this note.  But it is
> certainly something to think about.

IoT is something we're already, albeit slowly, talking about for
gateways and end point devices.

There's already a mailing list [1] where it's worth discussing this.
I've started the conversation [2] and I'm slowly working towards a
demo device with a couple of "profiles".

Peter

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/iot/
[2] http://nullr0ute.com/2015/09/getting-iot-kick-started-on-fedora/