BiB082 - LPWANs, Amazon Sidewalk and Apple U1 Wideband

Amazon Sidewalk is a SDWAN-based LPWAN over internet using their extensive device portfolio as nodes in a new service. Apple U1 Wideband uses radio technology to improve device tracking, location services and possibly even more health detection capability.

LPWAN

The era of Low Power WAN has been bubbling away in the background for quite some time. The big money was in the smartphones and pushing cheap wireless PCs in a handheld glass slab format for the last ten years. That market is getting saturated and its time for companies to look at the next phase of network growth.

Low Powered WAN is a group of technologies operating in various unlicensed spectrums usually at sub 1Ghz frequencies. These frequencies have low data rates but excellent penetration.

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Link: Apple U1 Chip in iPhone 11 Explained: Everything You Need to Know | Digital Trends – https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-u1-chip-explained/

Link: Helium – Venture Capital Con Job or Viable Business ? – EtherealMind – https://etherealmind.com/helium-venture-capital-con-job-or-viable-business/

Link: Ultra-wideband – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-wideband