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Sigfox, Wifi, or else, my recommendation is the same : when you have nothing to say, do nothing :) In most "connected" devices, you don't need to keep an established connection whi…

Working on it! It's a pretty big country ... So far, you have solid coverage in some metro areas only : SF/North Bay, Chicago, NYC, Atlanta, Houston (Miami & others are getting the…

I mentioned elsewhere in the thread a beta Sigfox Network Emulator. Let me know if you could be interested in testing it.

There is a network emulator (USB key), but we're not 100% happy with it. Which is why it's not advertised for sale yet. But if someone is interested to give it a try in not-yet-cov…

Sigfox relies on * Ultra Narrow Band (100Hz) modulation * Low data rate (100 bits/s in Europe, at 14dBm/25mW) + lightweight protocol * High receiver sensitivity, mostly SDR based W…

(Nicolas @Sigfox) What area are you thinking about ? In western/northern Europe, coverage is already pretty solid nationwide. Agriculture is one of the rising usecase: weather moni…

~~Disclaimer : Sigfox employee ~~ Big on words, but not speaking about others ;) I'd suggest anyone interested in LPWAN (be it Sigfox, LoraWAN or else) to get its own idea by field…

Great ! Thanks for sharing @mkarliner :)

TL;DR: The Sigfox Foundation goal is to offer coverage to non profit projects in remote areas & developing countries. Using GPS Trackers from Sensolus, the belgian polar mission is…

Fully agree: most of the IoT solutions are "unsexy" stuff. It's often painfully hard to explain that the kickstarter-sexy projects are only the tip of the iceberg. A BLE "smart" wa…

Tongue-in-cheek statements like this are proof that the guardian is still a british news org

In the SF event we'll hand out TI dev kits, Launchpad + CC1120 boosterpack (~ http://www.ti.com/tool/boostxl-cc1120-90 ) The Akeru board is still quite expensive (€100), as it's a …

Maker In Residence — INTERN — @Sigfox. Paris, FR. Build hardware PoCs showcasing the SIGFOX network. Real use cases, pure R&D, funny stuff .. Whatever. Using the HW solutions from …

Sigfox-ready chips can be bought from Atmel, Axsem, SiLabs, TI, .. and more : http://makers.sigfox.com/ You should be able to get some Sigfox-enabled TI CC1120 for a few $ easily.

Forgot to add that Sigfox isn't based on TI radios, but is hardware-agnostic. Basically, most sub-GHz radio transceivers are compatible, and it's all about adding the soft stack. C…

If you're skeptical about LPWAN range claims .. better thing to do is to test :) We (Sigfox) are running a hackathon in SF on Nov 20th, in partnership with the City. Good occasion …

Sigfox doesn't have channels per se. Each Sigfox message is concentrated on ~100Hz, with the base stations listening to a 200KHz part of the available spectrum. Regarding interfero…