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  • How To Use The Helium Bridge

    How To Use The Helium Bridge

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    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…

  • Let’s Talk NanoTags on Helium

    Let’s Talk NanoTags on Helium

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    One of the core ben­e­fits of a glob­al LoRaWAN net­work like Heli­um is the abil­i­ty to track assets across a large area. Now, track­ing isn’t mag­ic, it’s engi­neer­ing, and it always comes down to fun­da­men­tals: How are you get­ting your loca­tion? How long do you need your track­er to run? How often should it ping?  As…

  • What devices can you use on Helium?

    What devices can you use on Helium?

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    Heli­um opened the door for a lot of us into the world of LoRaWAN, which stands for Long Range Wide Area Net­works. After all the excite­ment of get­ting up Hotspots (tech­ni­cal­ly, “gate­ways”) up to earn HNT for pro­vid­ing cov­er­age, we’re left ask­ing, “What can you do with Helium?” One of the best places to start…

  • People Counter Update: Many Obstacles, Much Learning

    People Counter Update: Many Obstacles, Much Learning

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    Way back in Feb­ru­ary of 2022, I wrote a Heli­um Foun­da­tion grant to deploy peo­ple coun­ters on a trail here in San Diego. The grant was approved, I used the first tranche to buy the devices, and then ran into a series of obsta­cles that are com­mon enough in this world of busi­ness, IoT, and…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Free Form

    Gristle Crüe Call — Free Form

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    This week’s call had no agen­da; it’s nice to do these free flow­ing calls every so often. As a group we decid­ed to exper­i­ment a bit with the for­mat and move to pre-record­ed con­tent one week vs a guest or free form the next. Next week it looks like we may get a demo on…

  • GKIIN Vol 1 Issue 2

    GKIIN Vol 1 Issue 2

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    Crit­i­cal news for indus­try pro­fes­sion­als and investors in the space. This is sec­tioned into News, Oppor­tu­ni­ties, Issues, and Unknowns. NEWS HELIUM MCC Video — Due to Light Hotspot sched­ul­ing, the MCC has paused hard­ware audits for the month of Octo­ber. I’d think of this as a “stan­dard delay”. MCC — Video 19:46 All 5G gate­ways will…

  • The Gristle King Industry Insider Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1.

    The Gristle King Industry Insider Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1.

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    This is the inau­gur­al issue of the GKIIN (Gris­tle King Indus­try Insid­er Newslet­ter), which is writ­ten and researched by myself, Nik Hawks, and my good friend Max Gold, own­er over at PPL Anten­na and one of the most dogged inves­ti­ga­tors into these projects you’ll find. We’ll be writ­ing and releas­ing these on a week­ly basis.…

  • The Explosion of Blockchain + Meatspace

    The Explosion of Blockchain + Meatspace

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    At the recent TIPIN Sum­mit put on by Lat­tice Cap­i­tal, it became appar­ent that blockchain + meat­space projects are about to hit the main­stream of the cryptogalaxy. With pan­els fea­tur­ing every­one from Heli­um, the largest and most suc­cess­ful play­er in the space, to Anode Labs announc­ing the launch of the React Net­work (tok­eniz­ing Vir­tu­al Pow­er…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Flash Flood Project, Dashboards, 5G

    Gristle Crüe Call — Flash Flood Project, Dashboards, 5G

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    This week we cov­ered a TON of top­ics, from Eric’s flash flood warn­ing project in New Mex­i­co to Nick­’s “Dash­board Epiphany” after talk­ing with Thomas from Tingkart. We hit 5G news, Pol­len’s odd posi­tion on phys­i­cal gam­ing, Heli­um Hotspot dash­boards, and events sur­round­ing the upcom­ing Heli­um House in New York. -$1,500 sen­sor -recep­tion­ist in CBL Indus­tries…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — 5G, FUD, Water Sensors

    Gristle Crüe Call — 5G, FUD, Water Sensors

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    Jumped right into 5G Eco­nom­ics today (not much is known, still Wild West), then went into deal­ing with FUD. From there we flowed into the water lev­el mon­i­tor­ing & flash flood talk, maybe there’s a grant there. Upcom­ing pro­posed talks were for a WISP to talk us through set­ting up advanced back­haul, hav­ing a hydrol­o­gist…