The Helium Network – The World’s First people-powered peer-to-peer wireless network

What is the Helium Network?

To know what the helium network is, it is important to first understand what The internet of things or IOT is

The internet of things is a network of hardware devices and the software that can send and receive data over the internet.
It is estimated that over the next 5 years about 50 -75 billion devices will be connected to the internet.

These devices use sensors, routers, gateways, transceivers, processors, converters to transmit and receive data

So what is the Helium Hotspot?

The Helium Hotspot is a small hardware device that creates a large wireless network for devices that use Helium’s network. Think of it like a Wi-Fi router, uses very low power for devices sending small amounts of data over long ranges.

What does it do?

A Helium hotspot is like a low power Wi-Fi router, but uses Helium’s Long-Fi protocol to send small amounts of data over long ranges

Why should anyone deploy a Hotspot?

Hotspots provide internet connectivity for all sorts of IoT devices: bikes, scooters, temperature sensors, location trackers for pets, elevators, wildfire sensors, and much more. Your Hotspot earns a new cryptocurrency called HNT for providing network services to these devices