How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things

Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things by 1024core on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:58PM (#10474657)

> So now you can buy a radio chip for a few bucks and add it to any device.

Where?

> Think kilobits-per-second, not megabits-per-second.

Well, voice is (or was...) 32kbps, so technically you could make a voice call over these radios, if they can give you 32kbps? I've heard of voice compression as low as 8kbps too. Imagine a cellphone that lasts months :)

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Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things by jasonjayr on Thursday October 29, 2015 @10:46PM (#10475869)

Codec2 is an open source speech codec, shooting for 700 - 3200 bit/s, specifically for digital voice over radio.

http://www.rowetel.com/blog/?page_id=452

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Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things by dconrad on Thursday October 29, 2015 @05:59PM (#10474663)

http://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/sx1272-and-sx127...

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Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things by fsiefken on Friday October 30, 2015 @06:16AM (#10477000)

Opus SILK can go as low as 6000 bs. You can use it in existing VoIP solutions, VoIP over LoRa radio's would be very cool.. but I'm not sure if you can layer tcp/ip on top them yet.

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