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The constraint in consumer IoT has always been the same: processing lives in the cloud, which means every command crosses a third-party server before your light turns on.
One Raven, a Phoenix-based startup, launched July 7 with $5 million in seed funding led by Fifth Wall, building bespoke hardware and software that routes nothing to external servers.
The architecture behind the pitch Most smart home stacks run on a hub-to-cloud model.
Your device authenticates with a manufacturer server, state is stored remotely, and the system breaks when the vendor kills the service or the connection drops.
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