On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Les Howell <hlhowell@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
