[ultimape]

I personally think the real answer is not to have a central device, but to spread it out into a peer2peer 'fog'.

There's been some movement in industrial applications via stuff like https://twitter.com/FilamentHQ which leverages hardware accelerated ECC and telehash, using blockchain based DNS systems and other decentralized methods of command and control.

I think a similar direction needs to be taken for consumer hardware and data. The cloud needs to become just another peer.

I've been working with a bunch of interesting ideas on trying to get a distributed IoT network setup using programmable blockchains and Eris industries stack as part of an internship with them.

[jsilence]

I very much like the term "fog computing" for P2P anti-cloud software. Hope it catches on.

[notfunk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_computing

[stephengillie]

Just watch out for Namespace collisions with groups like AppFog in the Container space.

[Natanael_L]

Why not both?

In P2P networks you'll need reliable peers with sufficient capacity. Making a home server into an always connected peer could solve plenty of issues, such as with routing and hosting.

[jefurii]

"fog computing" is an awesome term!

[1SockChuck]

It's been actively used by Cisco for several years. http://blogs.cisco.com/perspectives/iot-from-cloud-to-fog-co...