Most of HN mistakenly assumes IoT == putting cameras and microphones on televisions with no security (eg, super stoopidity), when in fact IoT is a powerful way for businesses to monitor/diagnose/control remote devices (like jet engines, vending machines, stop lights,...)
But I don’t see what Mozilla has to do with that, nor why we need some kind of “gateway” or json spec when it’s just yet another internet device.
Actually of course it’s about collecting data for predictive maintenance and to help in making design improvements.
[1] OK, maybe not full control over the engine because that's not how it works, but it has full control over the embedded monitoring system, which is still pretty bad.
IoT means different devices connecting to internet and/or each other. A jet engine is part of a closed system, there is no need to use a standard protocol to communicate to it. You don't just pick one and plug into a multi-million-dollar plane. Vending machines need no special protocols to connect to other things, because why would they? And stop lights. These things may connect to some server or maybe each other, but no standard protocol is needed, if a traffic light isn't supposed to talk to a random device passing by (and it isn't supposed to).
A gateway to block all those devices, that could be useful.
These don't necessarily need to be the same system, only one might need interactivity, but there's certainly a case to be made that both devices could reasonably want to communicate with passers-by.