Gristle Crüe Call — LoneStar Tracking

Excit­ed to see some new faces this week and to go wide on what run­ning a telem­at­ics com­pa­ny using Heli­um looks like. Very cool run­down from Thomas Rem­mert from Lon­eS­tar on all the things they’re doing, from tiny ear tags on cat­tle to track­ing vehi­cles to start­ing to use satel­lite backhaul. 

Hotspot relo­ca­tion https://futurenetworks.host/relocation-service/

Thomas Rem­mert @ Lon­eS­tar Tracking

Xnet — new com­peti­tor in the 5G space for Heli­um & Pollen.

Pollen event (Hap­py Hour in NYC) recap — Audio was ter­ri­ble so dif­fi­cult to hear the announce­ment. Most­ly it seemed like they’ve got new radios and a lot of VCs sniff­ing around at these get togeth­ers for “oth­er” projects. 

Lon­es­tar Pre­sen­ta­tion from Thomas (Tom­my) Remmert

CTO @ Lon­es­tar, back­ground in oil & gas

West Texas, North Dakota

They look for areas with no infra­struc­ture and/or with lim­it­ed cell carriers

Oil com­pa­nies will deploy SCADA sys­tem — Wire­less­ly send back data to headquarters

Lon­eS­tar Track­ing (LST) cur­rent­ly uses lots of sen­sors & comm pro­to­cols, includ­ing cat­tle ear tags — cell, satel­lite, LoRa versions

Has a tiny ear tag, 26 grams, 120 max, 3 year “cap”

Runs 40k sen­sors in total

8k LoRa units, most­ly on TTN

Rur­al focused company

Favors the Dig­i­tal Mat­ter prod­uct line

-Oys­ter

catM or nbIOT data

Satel­lite com­pa­ny — Swarm

• Spark fun — dev board
• 1 satel­lite every few minutes

Myri­o­ta

Glob­al­sat — hard­ware mfr

Glob­al­star — glob­al satellite

Glob­al­star space st100

• -Just 4 sol­der points
• -one way satel­lite transmitter
• -GPS chip
• -bat­tery charging
• -add a bet­ter & solar pan­el & programming

Pos­si­bil­i­ties com­ing up with ML & IoT

EdgeIm­pulse

Avg size cus­tomer has 140 sensors

Mike Corum and the K1100 — Quick run through at the end.

CHAT TRANSCRIPT

10:01:07 From Nik Hawks : https://futurenetworks.host/relocation-service/
10:03:17 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : hey Alvaro!
10:04:05 From 619OTA : I was run­ning COTX firmware on my RAK. but idk. was get­ting a BUNCH of invalids. be nice if EVERYONE was allowed. not just 1 man­u­fac­ture
10:04:41 From alvaro­gra­cia : Bor­ing Pro­to­col dVP­Ns on top of hotspots ?
10:05:54 From Eric Jonas : Yes to BOP dVP­Ns
10:06:09 From Eric Jonas : Hail BOP!
10:09:40 From Russ : How do you keep the cow point­ed south at 35 degree angle?
10:10:10 From Elon­Tusk : haha­ha
10:10:12 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : @Russ haha­ha Hilar­i­ous.
10:11:16 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : agree Travis
10:15:51 From Russ : Super­vi­so­ry con­trol and data acqui­si­tion (SCADA) is a con­trol sys­tem archi­tec­ture com­pris­ing com­put­ers, net­worked data com­mu­ni­ca­tions
10:17:48 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : oh my!
10:17:56 From Elon­Tusk : …tigers and bears, oh my.
10:18:07 From 619OTA : need shark track­er if you can do under­wa­ter
10:18:08 From Russ : pythons in the ever­glades
10:19:14 From 619OTA : ya. super glue makes marks
10:25:49 From Nik Hawks : Eric, you ready to talk about your project?
10:26:29 From Elon­Tusk : Is it preg­nant cows? Travis is all ears. 😀
10:28:37 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://swarm.space/
10:31:38 From Nik Hawks : https://myriota.com/
10:32:28 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) To Nik Hawks(privately) : i love Travis ?
10:32:59 From Nik Hawks To Lee (Team Gris­tle King)(privately) : He’s jump­ing in more than I’d like, but he’s under a lot of stress right now so I’m let­ting it slide.
10:33:13 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) To Nik Hawks(privately) : Did Eric write back, ready to talk?
10:33:20 From Nik Hawks To Lee (Team Gris­tle King)(privately) : Nope.
10:33:58 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Tom­my, are you doing stuff with buf­fa­lo?
10:36:07 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Buf­fa­lo needs lots of land to roam, and those peo­ple have a lot of mon­ey too.
10:37:57 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://www.globalstar.com/en-us/
10:38:51 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://www.globalstar.com/en-us/products/iot/st100
10:42:01 From Nik Hawks To Michael Corum(privately) : Mike, how much time will you need for the K1100 demo/talk?
10:42:15 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://www.edgeimpulse.com/
10:45:01 From Michael Corum To Nik Hawks(privately) : I could maybe do 10 min­utes
10:45:11 From Michael Corum To Nik Hawks(privately) : Just an overview — not a step by step
10:45:24 From Nik Hawks To Michael Corum(privately) : Got it. Will pull ya in soon.
10:47:34 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : It’s all so fas­ci­nat­ing
10:47:52 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Elon has his hand raised!
10:50:47 From Nik Hawks : sate­liot com­pa­ny
10:50:54 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://sateliot.space/en/
10:51:28 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Go Mike!
10:51:57 From Russ : Thanks Thomas that was a lot of great info!!!
10:52:25 From tteague : yea, badass, man!
10:52:43 From Nik Hawks : https://www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-Studio-LoRaWAN-Dev-Kit-p-5370.html
10:52:48 From alvaro­gra­cia : Thank you Thomas!
10:54:00 From Nik Hawks : This is so cool! Love see­ing the Crüe explore this (and share!)!
10:54:06 From Elon­Tusk : Looks like it’s sold out.
11:00:12 From tteague : you need in the sekrut group….
11:00:58 From CreekHound : Drag it to anoth­er screen or posi­tion
11:02:08 From tteague : thank you
11:02:17 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : that’s so cool Mike
11:02:22 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Very cool, Mike
11:02:25 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : well done!
11:02:26 From tteague : got­ta bounce
11:02:51 From alvaro­gra­cia : ??
11:03:03 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : thanks all!!! so cool.