March 1, 2017 12:02

Smart home tech is useless when the Internet stops working

And could be dangerous

Smart houses are expected to be a multi-million dollar industry in the future and with good reasons -- they make everything simpler. But what happens when the Internet crashes? Well, that complicates things a bit.

Amazon's AWS outage on Tuesday put things in perspective. As many flooded Twitter to complain about services going down, others began to notice that their connected devices were also failing in the wake of the disruption, writes Karissa Bell for Mashable . Checkout the article to see what the implications of a smart home could be.