• dan@upvote.au
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    1 month ago

    That’s pretty good given (as far as I know) the main use case for HaLow is for low bandwidth, very low power use cases, like for IoT devices and other things you’d use Zigbee or Z-wave for today, including devices that run for years off a single button cell battery

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      It sounds like you’re thinking of LoRa, another 900MHz radio protocol.

      LoRa has similar bandwidth to Zigbee (125kbps), and as you say is designed for low-power devices running on battery. I have PIR motion sensors at home which have used only around a third of their battery after 2 years.

      Security cameras seems to be a large target market for HaLow though, where you need a couple of megabits at a few hundred metres.

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        1 month ago

        Serious question, why not use current wifi for that kind of distance?

        I know, it’s probably not really easy to make the comparison at this point - power usage is definitely part of that equation. Though the lower bandwidth of this doesn’t seem quite enough for video?

        Edit: I misread the bandwidth as 347kbit, not Mbit. So yea, this looks very promising for video, especially given the limitations of Wifi, plus using less power.