"Internet of Things will not happen until LAN of Things arrives", to paraphrase someone.
This already happens in the industry, like heavy industry.
At home, it's held back by absence of an adequate server. Often a router box or a NAS would be fine to host something like OwnCloud. But to run ML middle, different and much more expensive hardware is required, which would sit idle 99% of time.
LAN of things - this is a fascinating idea. Can you share where you are paraphrasing this from or link to more info on this concept? Sounds familiar with the self hosted applications people now run on their NAS/routers these days.
The concept is nothing new, it's just not something manufacturers picked on. Hobbyist are doing it all the time, usually in form of most devices either communicating directly or being bridged into queue. So technically via that every device can call every other device directly so for simple things you don't even need programming
The idea is just to keep that within your own LAN.
IoT world mostly wants to create closed gardens so you buy other products around that garden.
Easiest way to make it easy for consumer is to connect your devices to cloud and so most decide to go that way, no need for end user to buy a hub.
And even if you need to (say devices use zigbee and you need a bridge), putting that in cloud means user's phone can always access it, regardless of whether they are connected to the home's wifi, without much fuss (as home internet will most likely be behind NAT/firewall so it can be hard to access directly
> $20 for the SMD TPU isn't bad, but it's definitely at the top end of the BOM for custom PCB projects.
Sounds great in theory, but show me a place where you can buy Coral TPUs at anywhere near msrp. Unless something has changed recently, finding a real live unicorn would be easier.
This already happens in the industry, like heavy industry.
At home, it's held back by absence of an adequate server. Often a router box or a NAS would be fine to host something like OwnCloud. But to run ML middle, different and much more expensive hardware is required, which would sit idle 99% of time.