This post is part of the continuing Paths to Transactive Energy series. You can find them all listed by clicking on the matching metatag at the bottom of each post.

Many of the hottest startups in the Internet Of Things (IOT) are cloud based. This is driven by: are cloud based. Motivations driving this include:

• Using powerful shared computing to reduce the cost of simple things in the house.
• Pushing inter-Thing compatibility into the clouds
• Providing a locus for high end user interfaces, on phone and tablet, over the web.

Of course a more powerful incentive is: