@tech-news-IEEESpectrum “And even 15-year-old #smartphones feature potent CPUs and fast-operating memory, which enables them to comfortably outperform popular IoT-specific devices such as the single-board #RaspberryPi computer, according to #Flores”

As the article points out, the extreme low cost, almost free. Does that cost take into account the numbers available, time to sort, hack and maintain the service? A lateral thinking solution.