Swarm – Low cost, global satellite connectivity for IoT

Post by happyopossum » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 12:23 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #84

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #14

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What might somebody (or some company) use this for? 192 bytes * 750 packets = 144000 bytes per month at what speed/latency?

It's ideal for asset tracking - you can fit a GPS fix, timestamp, and accuracy estimate (based on # of satellites visible) into 12 bytes, which is enough to ping once per minute and still only use half your allocated bandwidth. If your asset tags call in every 5 minutes or once per hour lots of options open up. 2 way communications aren't much more demanding because most of what you need can be done with lookup table…

Post by RockRobotRock » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 12:50 AM UTC

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You're already carrying around a device that monitors your location, what you are saying (and audio in the surrounding area), to some extent how you are moving (gyroscope), your data ingress and egress patterns and where you share virtually all your public thoughts (and most private thoughts). Some people even connect their watches, which monitor (or will soon monitor) everything from their heart rate, sleep schedule…

While that's true, I have a little bit of faith in Apple and Google. But how about the $18 humidifier I bought on Amazon?

Post by cozzyd » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 1:04 AM UTC

ge96 wrote: post #28

arriu wrote: post #12

Minimum order of 25, so roughly $3725 for one year unless you get the "eval kit" @ $449. USD $5/MO PER DEVICE Provides 750 data packets per device per month (up to 192 Bytes per packet), including up to 60 downlink (2-way) data packets

Curious how it compares to Iridium, I've seen those with Sparkfun

Post by pmorici » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 1:25 AM UTC

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I guess that explains why the marketing site looked so familiar.

Hasn't Helium shown that there is low demand for this type of IoT connectivity?

Post by SergeAx » Fri, Nov 04, 2022, 1:27 AM UTC

mmazing wrote: post #105

anigbrowl wrote: post #84

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It's ideal for asset tracking - you can fit a GPS fix, timestamp, and accuracy estimate (based on # of satellites visible) into 12 bytes, which is enough to ping once per minute and still only use half your allocated bandwidth. If your asset tags call in every 5 minutes or once per hour lots of options open up. 2 way communications aren't much more demanding because most of what you need can be done with lookup table…

It's not only bandwidth limited, it's message count as well. The $60/yr plan allows for 750 _messages_ per month. Up to 3000 messages per month if you stack 4 plans together. So on the base plan, you're limited to ~1 message per hour if you spread it out across the month.