It’s impossible to open up the Sunday flier for a major electronics store without seeing ads for smart thermostats, coffee makers, refrigerators, and even light bulbs and Crock-pots. The notion that nothing is off-limits when it comes to IP addresses has taken the world by storm. People want their gadgets to be Internet aware and they want to remote control them from their Android or IOS device.
In my latest article for No Jitter, I explore IoT devices and how they just might be one of the driving forces towards the adoption of IPv6.