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LoRaWAN's marketing uses the word "community" a lot. Also add to that: > The Helium Network, also known as “The People’s Network”, ...and add the fact that Lo
by goodpoint 5y ago
LoRaWAN's marketing uses the word "community" a lot. Also add to that:
> The Helium Network, also known as “The People’s Network”,
...and add the fact that LoRa and LoRaWAN is corporate-controlled and patented. This is all astroturfing.
Do we really need yet another proprietary radio standard?
> “proof-of-coverage” transactions earn Hotspot owners HNT cryptocurrency
Yikes.
- dv_dt 5y agoAre there interesting open standards in a similar performance/power/range envelope?
- CameronNemo 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
- goodpoint 5y agoAlso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DASH7
- delabay 5y agoLoRaWAN is extremely cheap (BOM and data costs) and quite frankly old tech compared to any other standard which fills the same market need. I have a water sensor that has a battery life of 10 years and $1 pays for all the data credits it ever needs.
- willidiots 5y agoHelium is ultimately independent of LoRaWAN though - it's now expanding to other protocols i.e. CBRS.
- delabay 5y agoHelium CBRS will be the largest neutral host carrier of 5g by 2023 :)
- joewadcan 5y agoI'd argue we do need a proprietary standard to make move the IOT market from a pipedream to reality.
- delabay 5y agoTo add to this, Semtech / Lorawan tech is literally _so cheap_. There really aren't technologies as optimal on the cost per evilness spectrum.
- vmception 5y agohttps://explorer.helium.com https://explorer.helium.com the helium network viability is that using the network doesn't burden the consumers with the cryptocurrency's fluctuations in price or necessarily dealing with it at all. Consumers are able to use Data Credits which have a fixed price, creating data credits (DC) destroys the HNT token - of which the consumer or their future ISP will have to buy/acquire Helium tokens to do. So it creates a decent incentive for providers to build and expand the network (to earn HNT) and also a demand side as consumers (or their ISPs) to buy and destroy helium to create DC. The antenna/routers do not use much energy and instead rely on a geographic distance which determines if they earn more or less HNT based on the coverage they are providing to the network.
- chewbaccainsf 5y agoexplorer.helium.com track the growth here.