Living in a condo with inadequate opportunity for fresh light wiring presented a problem for [Raphael Luckom], which he solved by taking a few off-the-shelf ESP8266-based IoT mains switches. That i… ...

A logical choice for controlling a DIY smart home device is the ESP8266. With an integrated microcontroller, 9 GPIO pins which can also be used for I2C or SPI, a serial UART, and built-in Wi-Fi, the ...

The typical IoT networks I’ve seen collect data using cheap and low-power devices, and transmit it to a central service without more effort spent on security than needed (and sometimes much less).