Episode 137: Is Nest breaking Thread?

This week’s show has flying cars and lawsuits. What more can anyone really ask for? Kevin and I kick off the show discussing Waymo’s autonomous minivans, Uber’s plan for helicars, and the injunction that ADT won against Ring. There are plenty of other bits of security news that span the smart home all the way to a new survey full of dumb things industrial shops do related to security. Finally, Congress is trying again with an IoT security bill. This week also had a huge chip deal, bad news for Logitech device owners and an insightful question/comment related to the Amazon Echo on the IoT Hotline. One of the Notion sensors that now works with Nest. Our guest this week is Grant Erickson, the president of The Thread Group, who tried hard to convince me that this week’s news out of the wireless standard organization wasn’t bad. Thread is implementing an official certification and something called “Thread Ready” which is like some kind of royal bastard. It won’t have all of the features of Thread and certified Thread gear won’t recognize it. I’m worried it will break the standard, but Erickson explains what it means. You’re gonna want to hear this. Hosts: Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel Guest: Grant Erickson, the president of The Thread Group Sponsors: SparkCognition and ADT Why minivans are good autonomous vehicles There is no such thing as an airgapped network Can we please get an expiration date for devices? Did Nest just break the Thread protocol? We’ll see tens of Thread devices at CES next year. The post Episode 137: Is Nest breaking Thread? appeared first on IoT Podcast - Internet of Things.