IoT Security
Local Water Meter Monitoring: Privacy, Radio Data, and Safe Setup
Build a receive-only water-monitoring workflow without opening or modifying utility equipment. Check authorization, radio and cloud dependencies, data retention, leak alerts, and what detailed usage can reveal about a household.
Repairable Smart-Home Device Checklist: Parts, Recovery, and Cloud Exit
Before the return window closes, verify replaceable service parts, local operation, firmware support, documented reset and re-pairing, backup and recovery, and a workable exit from the vendor's hub or cloud.
IoT Device Security Checklist: Firmware, Updates, and End of Support
Review an IoT device's firmware source, update and recovery path, vulnerability-disclosure record, exposed services, support dates, and isolation options before purchase and at each lifecycle review.
IoT Isolation for Homelabs: VLANs, Firewall Rules, and mDNS
Isolate IoT devices with default-deny VLAN policy and narrow service exceptions, then test controllers, casting, and denied access one device class at a time before expanding.