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This would definitely be possible with ROS, and it would make a great, easy prototype, but ROS probably isn't suitable for a commercial IoT product.

ROS has some great features that will make prototyping easy:

• Python API for quick scripts
• Anonymous pub/sub and remapping for easy re-use of nodes
• Existing packages like rosserial for hardware integration

But ROS also has some drawbacks that make it unsuitable for commercial deployment:

• Requires a full Linux OS (Ubuntu)
• Lots of dependencies; requires several GB of disk space to install.
• Centralized ROS master needed for connection setup
• Does not handle lossy or intermittent network connections well

I'm not familiar with the IoT frameworks, but one of them might be more suitable.