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Ask HN: what is the cheapest way to collect instrument logged data remotely?
I need to collect data from instruments periodically (once every 15 minutes) remotely.
Is there a Wireless plan that is suitable for this kind of low/data-only traffic?
I live in in the US.
- inerte 16y agoI'm from Brazil. A friend worked on a company that tracked trucks (to know if they are on route, where they are if stolen, etc). They simple used a cellphone with GPS, requesting via HTTP the company's server, with its position/id. They probably had some kind of agreement with telcos to pay a little cheaper rates, but honestly a few kb per day is cheap enough, and the tech is not complicated. I don't know your scaling plans, but I think you can do your instruments talk to some server using standard cellphones.
- wmf 16y agoThere are unadvertised SMS-only plans; I don't know how you buy them, though.