Reasons for Cloudless IoT in the article:<p><i>Privacy is not the only reason why you’d want to avoid the cloud. Other reasons include stability, persistence, data privacy, security, and necessity.</i><p>tl;dr<p><i>Provide two versions for your users: full and local. The full version with the cloud is easy to use and easy to access. The local version operates only with the mini-cloud. It may not be as easy to use and will not provide full access, but it will not use the cloud.</i>