Helium would perhaps be one of the coolest things ever, if they would drop the dang cryptocurrency.
Does Sidewalk or Tile need it? Nope. The bandwidth is small. You run a node for personal use that happens to serve others. And it clearly works.
The server power needed is relatively small. Especially if heirarchal small community run servers are a thing. It could easily be donation or hardware sales funded.
It could even run on a distributed hash table and not need servers.
All we need is an open source, 2 way version of Tile that has more transports than Bluetooth. Everything is already in place for Helium to be amazing.
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The server power needed is relatively small. Especially if heirarchal small community run servers are a thing. It could easily be donation or hardware sales funded.
It could even run on a distributed hash table and not need servers.
All we need is an open source, 2 way version of Tile that has more transports than Bluetooth. Everything is already in place for Helium to be amazing.