More and more of our home appliances are equipped with "smart" features. Some connect to cloud servers, which looks like a bad idea considering the risk of server-side failure.
There are other risks, of course. --- AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/ A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on October 20 had the unexpected side effect of causing chaos in bedrooms across the US, as owners of Eight Sleep's $2,000+ `Pod' mattress covers found their smart beds had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures and odd positions in the night. ... Eight Sleep's products rely on cloud connectivity to control temperature and track biometric data. When AWS went down, users lost access to the app that manages its water-cooled coils, leaving them stuck with whatever setting was last active. ... --- Eight Sleep - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Sleep The above article says that the bed is integrated with Amazon Echo. Eight Sleep manufactures luxury beds for the home market. I wonder if there are beds in hospitals, care facilities and such which are similarly connected to outside servers. Crew dormitories of Japanese railroads have special beds which crest up at the middle to ensure that the occupant wakes up. Similar devices may be installed in military facilities, fire stations, airline crew dorms, etc. Making such devices dependent upon an outside server would be a bad idea. Akira Urushibata _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
