Comment by onli
6 hours ago
Doesn't sound all that convincing to me. There is no need for network controlled fridges in the first place. And it's not like setting up that network control was free. This is not about saving money, this is about ignoring what IT people preach since multiple decades now, spending more for the attack vector and then loosing a lot of money when that attack vector gets used. Margins? If it were about margins the problem wouldn't exist.
(I can see the need for remote monitoring, that the freezer actually worked. Controlling the temperature is the issue.)
Do you say that as a supermarket manager, or a random person on an Internet forum? Because if it's the first, I'm very interested in hearing more on how you actually manage all the devices in your store and which ones require remote automation and which ones don't.
Automation doesn't require connecting to Internet.
Wow lots of supermarket managers on hn today
It will typically require some kind of network. And the person managing it will need access to that network.
It’s hard running that type of network securely, and costly to run it alongside a normal internet connection.
Cheaper to just use the internet connection and squint a bit at ‘securely’.
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