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There are standards like Zigbee, Thread, and Z-Wave for that.

• lxgr 3y ago
  The first two of these three are only specified on 2.4 GHz, though (similarly to Bluetooth LE's "extended range" mode).
  • zamadatix 3y ago
    Zigbee is specified in both 2.4 GHz and 900 MHz
    • lxgr 3y ago
      Oh, I didn't know that, thank you!
• modeless 3y ago
  Ring uses Z-Wave but needs range extenders for medium sized houses. Seems like it's not working in practice. I think those standards are for applications that need barely any bandwidth and need to run on coin cell batteries for years, I think there's room for a standard that is a little higher power but a lot more bandwidth, though still less bandwidth than regular Wifi. Something that you could actually browse the web on in a pinch.
  • zamadatix 3y ago
    Z-Wave has two range modes. The typical mode is designed to match the range of Wi-Fi to prevent urban areas from turning into a see of unusable noise because every suburban house and apartment is emitting kilometers of interference. "Long Range" Z-Wave devices are for the HaLOW IoT use case. 802.11ah does differ in that it has provisions to operate more as almost an actual bandwidth carrier than just an IoT network, though non-bridge type devices rarely implement the higher data rate provisions.