2 posts tagged with “distributed networks”

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Connect a Seeed Soil and Temperature sensor with your balena Helium Data-Only Hotspot on Datacake

In another blog post, we showed you how to build a Helium Data-only hotspot using balenaCloud. Here’s a way to add a practical gardening use case to the hotspot: monitoring the temperature and moisture level of plants outside (while mining a small amount of $HNT depending on the type of equipment you use!). Adding the sensors to monitor the garden One of the main problems in my garden is that the…

May 26, 2022 / 8 min

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Build your Helium Data-Only Hotspot with balena

In previous posts, we covered different ways to build a LoRaWAN gateway connected to The Things Stack (the former The Things Network (TTN)). In this post, we’ll show you how to deploy a fleet of Helium data-only hotspots on Raspberry Pi and Seeed WM1302 LoRa concentrators (SX1302). Learn how to build a Helium hotspot with balena and Seeed Helium is a crowdsourced LoRaWAN network running on…

April 22, 2022 / 9 min