Category: Helium

So you’ve read the piece on the Heli­um Bridge and you want to use one to bring your favorite non-LoRaWAN sen­sor data onto the Heli­um Net­work? Rad! Let’s start off with the cur­rent lim­i­ta­tions, just so you don’t get all hot and both­ered then real­ize what you wan’t ain’t doable yet. Right now, it works “out…

Once you’ve built the world’s largest LoRaWAN net­work, the next step is clear­ly to use it. Still, it can be hard to use a net­work that does­n’t yet have an absolute boat­load of sen­sors ready for it.  Part of this is the hard­ware lag cycle. It takes time to build hard­ware, and we’re just now get­ting…

One of the great oppor­tu­ni­ties of a ubiq­ui­tous wire­less net­work like Heli­um’s LoRaWAN is in mon­i­tor­ing park­ing. While park­ing may seem slight­ly less inter­est­ing than day-old oat­meal to most of us, the more you know about park­ing the more you won­der why we don’t pay far more atten­tion to it. Let’s start with the busi­ness cas­es…

A few of the Silen­cio team came on to brief us on the lat­est with their project, and we got to have a great Q&A with ’em! June 20th Thomas — CEO & bizden Theo — COO Christo­pher — mar­ket­ing & biz dev Eric — CPO, engi­neer, cre­at­ed a cryp­to exchange Flo­ri­an — youngest broth­er, soft­ware dev Notes…

Now that Heli­um has shown the world how to deploy a glob­al net­work of phys­i­cal devices at a low capex, and Hivemap­per, GEODNET, and Weath­erXM (among many oth­ers) fol­low­ing suit, what should we expect to see in the next year? My guess is we’ll see the rise of DePIN/CS, for Decen­tral­ized Phys­i­cal Infra­strucutre Networks/Citizen Science.  Many…

The most impor­tant per­son read­ing this may be non-tech­ni­cal. While tech­ni­cal exper­tise is crit­i­cal to accom­plish the goals set out below, much of the ini­tial work done will be “imag­i­na­tion work”, try­ing to fig­ure out how we as a com­mu­ni­ty want to work with, in, and around a new form of access into Helium. Let’s…

What is a down­link, why would you want one, and how can you use ’em? With Heli­um being a per­mis­sion­less net­work, we’re going to have a ton of peo­ple who are not LoRa wiz­ards try­ing to use a LoRaWAN, includ­ing down­links. I thought I’d write up a few arti­cles on how to solve some of…

At the begin­ning of Heli­um’s LoRaWAN, the abil­i­ty to route a pack­et from a device through the Hotspot net­work to wher­ev­er you want­ed it to go was a ser­vice pro­vid­ed either Heli­um Inc or even­tu­al­ly, the Heli­um Foun­da­tion. That rout­ing hap­pened through the Heli­um Con­sole, which was a cus­tom built LNS (LoRaWAN Net­work Serv­er). An…