We take trust between 'end points' seriously. Encrypting data is fine, but establishing trust before sending any data to or between points (commonly referred to as ‘end points’) is incredibly important.
Any and all data communications are allowed only through high-trust connections. For instance, the voltage information you see in your app travels from your Ting sensor to our Ting servers over the internet, then from our Ting servers to your app, again, over the internet.
This flow can only occur with trusted ‘endpoints’ - your sensor, your phone, and our servers.
This also means that we make it really hard for hackers to ‘masquerade’ as a Ting server or your Ting app and masquerading as a trusted endpoint.
[For more technical audiences, we've designed Ting to make it really hard for a hacker to conduct a ‘Man in the middle’ or code injection attack to falsify, suppress or redirect Ting signals or communications; and there is no 'backdoor' access to your home network via the Ting sensor.]