This is Part II of our “How to Protect Your Smart Home in 2020” Mini-Series by IoTeX & NKN. For Part I, please see our “Your Private Smart Home” webinar.
Smart homes today contain many different types of devices made by multiple manufacturers. However, the ecosystem is extremely siloed. You have solutions from August, Google Nest and ring that have their own vertically integrated tech stacks. Starting from the devices, data is passed to the gateway, which is then sent to the cloud and finally to the application for processing. Using the August door lock as an example, the data being passed along this vertical tech stack is sensitive security credentials that will be used to tell the lock to either lock or unlock the door. Even the metadata from these devices can be valuable in understanding behavior, usage and more. That is why many of these large tech giants have an incentive to own your smart home data. The consequence of this, is that tech giants have made these tech stacks inoperable across platforms. In doing so, they are keeping the data within their own walled garden.
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