[HN Gopher] Build a Satellite-Powered RaspberryPi Security Camer...
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       Build a Satellite-Powered RaspberryPi Security Camera for Off-the-
       Grid Locations
        
       Author : giuliomagnifico
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-09-25 19:13 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tomshardware.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tomshardware.com)
        
       | walrus01 wrote:
       | from the webpage:
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       | > Swarm's data plan is an annual contract that provides 750 data
       | packets per device per month, up to 192 Bytes per packet.
       | 
       | https://swarm.space/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Swarm-Eval-Ki...
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       | "Bit Rate 1 kbps (Max packet size 192 bytes)"
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       | this really doesn't sound like something suited to sending video
       | or photos _at all_. It 's M2M IOT very small data as competition
       | for things like orbcomm.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbcomm_(satellite)
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       | If you have an off grid location you need to send video/photos
       | upstream from, even just a few hundred KB per hour, and all forms
       | of terrestrial WISP are off the table as a option... You'd be
       | much better suited with one of the lowest tiers of cheap consumer
       | geostationary ku/ka-band vsat services (viasat/wildblue/hughesnet
       | etc), or if you can get, it, starlink.
        
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