The "problem" is that even cheap phone processors have far more processing power than needed. Anything that requires real processing power already is offloaded to the net. There is no need to scavenge cycles from other processors. I have a bunch of Arduinos and Raspberry Pi processors doing a bunch of stuff (mostly collecting data) and they all are overkill for the task at hand. They mostly send data to servers and/or retrieve massaged data for presentation. I can't imagine any of these processors ever becom
This is not typical for IoT. A smart phone is not an internet-of-things style device. These are tiny processors, extremely low power with none to waste, very low bandwidth so that it takes longer to send parameters and receive the answers than to just do it locally.
Cycles are too cheap (Score:5, Informative)
The "problem" is that even cheap phone processors have far more processing power than needed. Anything that requires real processing power already is offloaded to the net. There is no need to scavenge cycles from other processors.
I have a bunch of Arduinos and Raspberry Pi processors doing a bunch of stuff (mostly collecting data) and they all are overkill for the task at hand. They mostly send data to servers and/or retrieve massaged data for presentation. I can't imagine any of these processors ever becom
Re:Cycles are too cheap (Score:2)
This is not typical for IoT. A smart phone is not an internet-of-things style device. These are tiny processors, extremely low power with none to waste, very low bandwidth so that it takes longer to send parameters and receive the answers than to just do it locally.