Semtech’s LoRa technology is the most exciting radio technology in the IoT right now. The cellular industry is making bold promises about LTE-for-the-IoT that almost certainly will fail to live up to their promises, but widespread availability of the allegedly “low cost” LTE chips with “multi-year battery life” for IoT is years away so for the moment, LoRa gets …
How To Disrupt The Internet of Things With Unified Networking from Haystack Technologies
Pokemon Go already looks like a pretty major technology shift. Commercially, it’s one of the most successful mobile games of all time, people are literally crashing into each other while playing, and the controversial headlines practically write themselves. But the technology industry impact of Pokemon Go goes beyond just gameplay. At its core, Pokemon does a good job of …
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Thoughts on an IoT blind spot Two IoT Arenas Companies competing to sell you their wireless IoT connectivity technology can be thought of as competing in one of two separate “arenas”: an indoor arena or an outdoor arena. The indoor arena is typically dominated by low power, local area networking (LPLAN) technologies focusing on home automation. ZigBee, Z-Wave, and Control4 …
Some innovations are so good they make it too easy. Parabolic skis and AutoTune, to name just two. For the Internet of Things, it’s the cloud that is making things way too easy. For IoT developers, the cloud is like beer in a college dorm: a cold one is around every corner you turn and … beer just becomes a constant …
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Something we occasionally talk about regarding Haystack and DASH7 is the strength of our security and privacy story, which at its foundation includes something called “listen-before-talk”, meaning endpoints using our technology remain quiet until they are interrogated by an authorized user or until an event occurs that sparks a message to the network. Sounds like …
We received quite a lot of positive feedback from our presentation on Low Power Wide Area Networks and today published a follow-up piece that explores our technology in greater detail from the perspective of real-time networking. Very briefly, many wireless IoT technologies are limited to some form of “beaconing” and are otherwise not very good at supporting queries in real-time. This …
We created a new presentation that dives into the opportunity with Haystack and Low Power Wide Area Networks like LoRa. About 70% geared towards business audiences, there is a “secret sauce” section in the middle that would appeal to the technical readers of this site.
