{"id":60518,"date":"2022-04-22T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=60518"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:45:08","slug":"helium-networks-decentralized-hotspots-help-california-crab-fisherman-cut-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/helium-networks-decentralized-hotspots-help-california-crab-fisherman-cut-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Helium Network&#8217;s decentralized hotspots help California crab fisherman cut costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long-range wireless network from the Helium Network project (LoRaWAN), paired with Browan industrial trackers, enabled San Francisco resident Jameson Buffmayr to minimise costs while crab fishing in the open ocean. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2022\/04\/21\/a-use-case-you-can-eat-california-crabs-tracked-by-helium-network\/\">CoinDesk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The hobby costs Browan&#8217;s IT chief thousands of dollars due to losses of $300 devices, as traps wander or may be stolen.<\/p>\n<p>Using <span data-descr=\"a network consisting of a multitude of small gadgets that provide long-range IoT connectivity\" class=\"old_tooltip\">LoRaWAN<\/span> and Browan&#8217;s industrial waterproof GPS trackers placed inside a buoy, Buffmayr could monitor the situation from roughly 40 km away.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;This is a radical shift. The ability to open a smartphone and check the location of something far away, in a completely different environment,&#8221;<\/em> he explained.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Such a combination is applicable in other scenarios\u2014from cafes using LoRaWAN to receive alerts about a shortage of <span data-descr=\"the brewing method for coffee where it is prepared not with hot but cold water\" class=\"old_tooltip\">cold brew<\/span>, to stores tracking foot traffic, flood sensors, air and water quality.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Helium Network site, there are currently 746,296 internet access points deployed globally. In the long term, the network could provide access to IoT devices via 5G.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2022, the project <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.io\/smi-defi-proekt-helium-privlek-200-mln-pri-otsenke-v-1-2-mlrd\/\">\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u043b\u0435\u043a $200 \u043c\u043b\u043d<\/a> at a valuation of $1.2 billion. Investors include: FTX Ventures, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Alameda Research, Ribbit Capital, 10T Holdings and Multicoin Capital.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to ForkLog News on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-range wireless network from the Helium Network project helped San Francisco resident Jameson Buffmayr minimise costs when crab fishing in the open ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,1680,1367],"class_list":["post-60518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-blockchain","tag-helium-hnt","tag-internet-of-things-iot"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60519,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60518\/revisions\/60519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}