it is time to experiment with arm embed pelion and amazon aws.
schematic
The idea is to use rest api's to let the leds on the board be directly controlled from the amazon cloud. The idea of no internet, should actually be the same as no power. i.e. very rarely
iot hardware platform
My platform of choice is of course one of the esp8266 chips or the raspberry pi. Unfortunately espressif is a competitor and for the raspberry a special linux distribution based on yocta is in development for pelion.
There are only a couple of boards available which are capable to synchronize with armmbed pelion. I chose the nucleo f767zi board.