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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by bravo22 on Monday January 04, 2016 @08:56PM (#10840430)
LoRa has long range but throughputs is extremely low. It is useful for some applications but not for all.
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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by hodwik on Monday January 04, 2016 @10:57PM (#10841057)
For most sensors throughput is not the problem -- it's distance, and power consumption.
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