The first time I heard about WiFi HaLow in2018 when I came across a company called Morse Micro. The technology sounds fascinating ! However, any worthwhile technology to succeed, there should be a consumer market along with alignment of other factors like timing, economy, luck, marketing and push by corporations/government etc. Sometimes, corporations can create a market by clever marketing.
I remember, there was lot of action happening on WiMAX a decade and half ago but it did not succeed though.
Roy, I fully agree. Building an ecosystem which shows the true value of the technology is essential.
The perfect example of a company who did this very well was Quantenna, who bootstrapped the real-time video over WiFi with their world beating 4x4 (and later 8x8) WiFi technologies which presented massive value to Telcos by allowing self-install, no need to do cable runs through the house for multi-room cable TV. The value proposition was clear from the start, and the technology delivered this in bundles.
Unless the HaLow companies can find a bootstrapping value proposition. In my opinion, no amount of clever marketing will make devices appear on the market. Agricultural and industrial IoT may be the path forward as the technology is well suited to sensor applications. What do you think?
I do remember Quantenna posing a threat to big established WiFi NIC manufactures during 802.11ac time. Quantenna were the talk of the town but I did not know the exact reason. Thank you for highlighting this.
Yes - following Quantenna's leads, HaLow semiconductor organisations should present a value proposition to customers. Again the examples of industrial and agricultural IoT is a good use case. Just a fortnight ago a startup founder was discussing viable alternative for LoRa. Their product is a wireless monitoring product which detects predator intrusions in large multi acres farms. The intrusion detection system is set of intercommunicating Single Board Computers transmitting videos over LoRa eventually landing into central Internet Gateway. LoRa bandwidth is very less for video traffic and he wanted a viable alternative. I first suggested 2.4GHz WiFi but then HaLow flashed to my mind. He was excited about HaLow's potential application.
It is sad that not many people are unaware or HaLow . More publicity is needed in that direction.
For Industrial IoT, HaLow needs to be couple with strong security protocols.
I know of Industrial/sensor systems which never have any networking capability on their platforms to prevent security threats (hacking etc). When the Industrial system designers are so apprehensive (rightfully so) about networking security, gaining their trust through security is an important step towards pushing HaLow towards IIoT.
Thank you Richard !
The first time I heard about WiFi HaLow in2018 when I came across a company called Morse Micro. The technology sounds fascinating ! However, any worthwhile technology to succeed, there should be a consumer market along with alignment of other factors like timing, economy, luck, marketing and push by corporations/government etc. Sometimes, corporations can create a market by clever marketing.
I remember, there was lot of action happening on WiMAX a decade and half ago but it did not succeed though.
Roy, I fully agree. Building an ecosystem which shows the true value of the technology is essential.
The perfect example of a company who did this very well was Quantenna, who bootstrapped the real-time video over WiFi with their world beating 4x4 (and later 8x8) WiFi technologies which presented massive value to Telcos by allowing self-install, no need to do cable runs through the house for multi-room cable TV. The value proposition was clear from the start, and the technology delivered this in bundles.
Unless the HaLow companies can find a bootstrapping value proposition. In my opinion, no amount of clever marketing will make devices appear on the market. Agricultural and industrial IoT may be the path forward as the technology is well suited to sensor applications. What do you think?
Spot on !
I do remember Quantenna posing a threat to big established WiFi NIC manufactures during 802.11ac time. Quantenna were the talk of the town but I did not know the exact reason. Thank you for highlighting this.
Yes - following Quantenna's leads, HaLow semiconductor organisations should present a value proposition to customers. Again the examples of industrial and agricultural IoT is a good use case. Just a fortnight ago a startup founder was discussing viable alternative for LoRa. Their product is a wireless monitoring product which detects predator intrusions in large multi acres farms. The intrusion detection system is set of intercommunicating Single Board Computers transmitting videos over LoRa eventually landing into central Internet Gateway. LoRa bandwidth is very less for video traffic and he wanted a viable alternative. I first suggested 2.4GHz WiFi but then HaLow flashed to my mind. He was excited about HaLow's potential application.
It is sad that not many people are unaware or HaLow . More publicity is needed in that direction.
For Industrial IoT, HaLow needs to be couple with strong security protocols.
I know of Industrial/sensor systems which never have any networking capability on their platforms to prevent security threats (hacking etc). When the Industrial system designers are so apprehensive (rightfully so) about networking security, gaining their trust through security is an important step towards pushing HaLow towards IIoT.