July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
378 pages
10h 26m
English
Sigfox is a company based in France that has developed a cellular style, ultra low power, long-range networking technology. It is intended for small messages that are sent infrequently. Data rates are very low at 100 bits per second (tops). The signals used can travel up to 25 miles, and a base station can handle up to a million nodes. Similar to cellular, it is not intended to be for private networks, as it requires coverage in the area to use it.

Sigfox devices can be very low cost due to low complexity and power requirements. Power requirements could be as low as one thousandth of equivalent cellular communications. It ...