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The founders of Cisco-acquired Meraki have resurfaced with their next venture, an Internet of Things sensor outfit called Samsara. Accompanied by the usual rapturous applause from the financial press, the outfit, set up by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket after they sent Meraki off to the Borg for US$1.2 billion, has funding from …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    " IoT is next big thing... "

    ... for Vampire Squids, Silicon Snake Oil Salesmen, South Sea Bubble & Tulip promoters to make a killing relieving mug punter investors of their cash.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Yay Meraki! Where you need to pay for a license for each and every wireless access point after three years or they stop working.

    "Unfortunately your fridge / lightbulb / doorlock's license has expired. Click here to buy another year's subscription."

    Eh, naw. Read the small print folks.

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  4. tom dial Silver badge

    What could possibly go wrong?

    Samsara "wants to combine 'plug-and-play sensors, wireless connectivity, and rich cloud-hosted software, all tightly-integrated for simple deployment'”.

    The article notes earlier that sensors are pretty much commodity items, but would need configuring. I will be sticking to those, or at least ones that don't need to be connected to anything not on my premises in order to work.

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