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Lora is for low data rates, such as sensors, location trackers, IoT applications. If your town has a Starbucks, you most likely have coverage right now. The ne
by delabay 5y ago
Lora is for low data rates, such as sensors, location trackers, IoT applications. If your town has a Starbucks, you most likely have coverage right now.
The network gets global utilization processing about 40M packets a day. Not big in terms of dollar $ yet, but people are indeed using it. Definitely nobody is suggesting you watch YouTube or even send emails with it.
- ALittleLight 5y agoIf a packet is 24 bytes then 40 million packets a day is slightly less than a gigabyte of data a day. Seems like really low throughput for a global network that extends to every town with a Starbucks. Do you have a source for the 40m packets number? Does that include the packets that the miners send to each other for proof of coverage? I'm having trouble imagining the uses for an expensive, slow, unreliable, bespoke network that's limited to the areas with helium miners nearby. If you have an example of someone using this I'd love to read more.
- delabay 5y agoThe 40M figure is pure data from roaming partners and end usage. Here's a tweet https://twitter.com/DeWiGoSite/status/1508492610435903490?t=6RH_QUsCbj24IvxO_ssEqA&s=19 https://twitter.com/DeWiGoSite/status/1508492610435903490?t=... You can measure this yourself at etl.dewi.org
- delabay 5y agoAbout usage, this tech has historically been used for industrial enterprise applications, like sensors, valves, environmental data. A large scale network has never been available to individuals so there aren't many consumer facing applications. I think the first big ones will be very cheap package tracking.
- dopidopHN 5y agoExactly, LoRA provide surprising range ( in miles ) but very narrow bandwidth