[Battlemesh] Amazon 900Mhz Sidewalk mesh?

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:18 PM Vincent Wiemann
<vincent.wiemann at ironai.com> wrote:
>
> It's likely not going to work this way in Europe due to spectrum regulations
> on those frequencies.
> And in Europe LoRaWAN starts to become important. Simply because we already have a dense
> network in the Netherlands and because German companies are starting to deploy LoRaWAN
> Gateways we will possibly soon have an existing infrastructure.
> It would be quite stupid if Amazon wouldn't hop on that train, but sometimes they
> make stupid decisions (has anyone ever used the dash buttons for ordering something)?
>
> By the way I think these LoRa-Mesh approaches are a disaster if deployed
> in urban areas. I see it this way: The regulatory institutions have limited the
> time a LoRa device can transmit due to a good reason. Too many transmissions will jam
> the bands. If the WLAN is bad, what do people do? Buy a repeater...
> I hope it will never end like this with LoRa.
>
> A LoRa message should be transmitted once to a gateway and not be repeated several times.
> And if it's one of these non-standard brain-dead Semtech chips... Please, don't
> buy it :).

Another article here:

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/24/amazon-sidewalk-a-low-bandwidth-network-for-connecting-smart-devices-and-iot/

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