Hawkinson: SmartThings built hub technology allowing home automation to run offline
Alex Hawkinson · Panel Discussion // NYC Data Business Meetup // May 2013 · Dec 5, 2013 · at 36:40
Alex Hawkinson, founder and CEO of SmartThings, discusses edge architecture and local rule execution for IoT smart home hubs at the NYC Data Business Meetup.
0:00 / 0:24exact quote · 24.3s
▶ Watch the full episode on YouTube → 720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“So we've, Created a technology we call wiring internally. It's actually one of our patent claims, but the, ah, you know, it's a lot of thought to how you create an abstracted app in the cloud, but that the hub, it knows what portions can be executed locally, and so it will push those down to the hub level, and then they will continue to operate locally, even absent the cloud for some period of time in a sort of elegantly degraded state.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Alex Hawkinson
Hawkinson: Open IoT platforms will succeed and force closed systems open
“There's enough reasons to sort of have an open, connected platform, in our view, that it will drive to be commercially successful. So it'll sort of Certainly be there alongside some of these closed efforts, and I think ultimately it'll sort of force a lot of p…”
Hawkinson: IoT devices cost $2-$5 to connect with 1,000-foot range
“Lots of standards so that you can now connect the device for two to five bucks and have a range of a thousand feet and battery life of two years, checking in every five seconds.”
Hawkinson: 5-to-10-year opportunity for hardware differentiated by connected services
“There's an enormous opportunity for the next five to 10 years to sort of build new types of connected objects that are differentiated through the, what they, what you can do with the connected apps and services.”