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WebRTC doesn't work for browser control of a lot of IoT type stuff. The really high volume cheapo devices speak things like CoAP or DTLS, and they don't have the horsepower to run something like WebRTC. You'd need a level of control similar to the berkeley socket API to get the browser to speak those protocols.

At the moment, I see a lot of ridiculous stuff like phone apps talking to some cloud instance which tries to jam the packets back through your firewall into your Internet light bulbs. Congratulations, you literally just used thousands of kilometers of fiber and billions of dollars of routing infrastructure to make the world's most expensive how many... light bulb joke.