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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?
Weather station or any kind of remote sensor that you want to keep in some remote area.
https://blog.semtech.com/satellite-iot-qa-with-swarm
Pretty cool. Just checked coverage over my house using their pass checker and it's already ~50% coverage through the course of the day. No good for realtime alerting but good enough for daily reporting.
Under 150KB per month, $5. Under 300KB per month, $10. Under 450KB per month, $15. Up to 600KB per month, $20. Note, that's total number of bytes, not bytes per second.
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
Provides 750 data packets per device per month (up to 192 Bytes per packet) 144,000 bytes. Almost the capacity as a Commodore 1541 disk drive. 40 years ago it would have been unfathomable that a regular schmoe could transmit a floppy disk via satellite for just $5.
Also, not sure where to find a decent Commodore system these days to utilize this plan :)
This is not affiliated with SpaceX if I read the site correctly. Super-interesting though. Edit: Wrong, see below
"View Open Positions" link points to SpaceX page https://www.spacex.com/careers/?search=swarm
https://www.space.com/spacex-to-acquire-swarm-technologies-s...
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
What might somebody (or some company) use this for? 192 bytes * 750 packets = 144000 bytes per month at what speed/latency?
They were anticipating some legislation that would require full auditability of supply chain.
Under 150KB per month, $5. Under 300KB per month, $10. Under 450KB per month, $15. Up to 600KB per month, $20. Note, that's total number of bytes, not bytes per second.
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
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
Provides 750 data packets per device per month (up to 192 Bytes per packet) 144,000 bytes. Almost the capacity as a Commodore 1541 disk drive. 40 years ago it would have been unfathomable that a regular schmoe could transmit a floppy disk via satellite for just $5.
A quick example, you have a sensor that sends a single metric every minute. Suppose that you can pack that info (sensor id, metric type and data) in 32 bytes. You're looking at about 1.2MB/month of data (8 times your 144K), which will come to about $40/month.
Quite expensive for a single data point, but I can imagine several use cases where that cost can be easily justified.
Under 150KB per month, $5. Under 300KB per month, $10. Under 450KB per month, $15. Up to 600KB per month, $20. Note, that's total number of bytes, not bytes per second.
With numbers like that, this seems completely useless except for all but the most wildly specific of applications