English
Industry Expert Blogs
|
IoT Water Kettle vs non-USB (or USB) Hot Water KettleTo USB or Not to USB: A USB IP Blog - Eric Huang, SynopsysOct. 17, 2016 |
IoT getting into Hot Water – Or Not
Today’s blog is brought to you by practical uses for USB that are impractical with IoT.
As reported in the Guardian, a WiFi Kettle is in the news because a guy tried to start up his WiFi iKettle to brew himself some tea, and it took him 11 hours. He wanted to use voice commands to start the kettle.
Because he had to debug the thing.
Because things don’t talk to each other.
So, I’m going to ignore the obvious safety issues like:
