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by sushant2mainali 3726 days ago
Thanks for your feedback. I like the private/public idea and that is what we are doing. However, we are implementing it slightly differently and that is subject to change as we go along. You don't share a device with your friends. You become friends with devices (and IOs of that device), which is a unique concept. So each device has its own friends vs friends sharing their devices with friends.

May be National Geographic can plant an Internet Connected thermometer in a volcano and we might have many many friends/followers of that device.

So, if I have 10 devices ( each with 3 data points); each device might have different friends with different levels of access to each of the data points on the 10 devices. The devil lies in the implementation though. If we make an excellent interface to manage the sharing and becoming friends with devices, we will win. And the sharing becomes crucial not for home devices but for commercial devices like may be a weather station at an airport (which the entire city may be interested) or like I mentioned the weighing machine of Kim Kardashian ( lol ) or may be goods on a commercial truck, the real time location of which is needed by 7/30 employees in a company. I want to develop this framework into something more than just for devices inside a home (which is where a lot of IOT focus is right now).

Since we would have the data, we can do stuff with it. Have not thought about what, but we plan to make it to good use.

Thanks for feedback on the name, we love positive criticism. We will look into that and research more.