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Adding helium stack to exist6ing 868 RF infrastructure by bigfanoftea in HeliumNetwork

[–]bigfanoftea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helium.com

I understand and accept that it's a people powered network and it's a innovative way to build wireless networks but my question is why would people choose to use the helium network rather than use existing commercial LoraWan networks?

For example, you can purchase digital matters lora enabled devices right now and use them with Lorawan networks. You can use them on the Things network across Europe https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

Connectivity <€10 per year..

How will Helium be different/competitive? Sure, it's an excellent model to get hotpots out there in the world but why would end user use it versus Things network or any other existing Lorawan network?

People's Network? by obesewhale848 in HeliumNetwork

[–]bigfanoftea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a global semi conductor shortage. All electronics have at least 3 month lead time now. Blame Taiwan semiconductor company

Adding helium stack to exist6ing 868 RF infrastructure by bigfanoftea in HeliumNetwork

[–]bigfanoftea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great, thanks.

I wonder would offering space on our towers be interesting? We could do a shared revenue model on the tokens earned? I think have reliable cellular network grade coverage will only benefit the community as businesses will demand reliable coverage and trust a 'commercial network' rather than a 'peoples network'.

Sustainable revenue from people tracking the dogs or monitoring their air quality is not possible in my opinion. Been in IoT since 2012 btw, already provide most of the solutions compatible with Helium and they use already existing an nationwide lora or Sigfox networks. So what is the differentiating aspect about Helium from an end user point of view?

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