Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things
by jlgaddis on Friday October 30, 2015 @03:58AM
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I'm not sure what you mean by "little money" but for less than $100 per location, you could have a 100+ Mbps link using Ubiquiti NanoStations. You can use Wi-Fi or their proprietary protocol and the radios are available on 2.4, 3.65, and 5 GHz. These little things will cover your 500m link with ease but might very well be extreme overkill if all you really want is <= 1 Kbps throughput.
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Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things
by semi-extrinsic on Friday October 30, 2015 @02:04PM
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Yeah, that's definitely overkill, but those are cool for applications needing the bandwidth. For comparison, the ESP8266 costs ~ $5, so that's "little money".