Tom Tildavaan

In case you want more #IOT in your life, Eaton ships remotely actuated circuit breakers.

The breakers are provisioned using a “BlinkUp” system through your phone. You start the provisioning on your device, then put your screen to the sensor on the circuit breaker, your screen blinks a number of times sending WiFi credentials to the device, and then the latter connects to the Electric Imp servers. Eaton is using impOs as the basis of their offering, and Electric Imp is adamant they are secure.

Now, Eaton provides API to these circuit breakers – https://api.em.eaton.com/docs, but there is no true local access – there is apparently a way to get local control, but your device must phone home weekly to receive configuration that would allow you to talk to your device locally.