We recently converted an internal dashboard for the Helium blockchain to a public tool and the reception/usefulness has been awesome. (For anyone interested -> http://dashboard.helium.com)

Congrats to the team. Well-deserved.

For anyone interested in more reading:

- The whitepaper that goes into more detail on this can be found here: http://whitepaper.helium.com

- A lot of the code that makes this possible is pinned to the Helium repo on GH: https://github.com/helium/

Mark from Helium here. Fair point on not publishing designs. You're not the first to bring this up and we have plans to make this a non-issue in the future. Shoot me a note - mark@helium.com - if you're up for talking further. Any other thoughts / critiques would be most-appreciated.

If you're looking for a sensor platform that will let you quickly deploy a sensor that will run for a few years on a pair of AAs, check out what we're putting together at Helium [1]. We just rolled out the presale of our Helium Atom Development Board [2] which uses the Atom - our drop in connectivity and compute module - as the basis for a sensor development board that is actually fit for production. The OS that runs on the module - cleverly named Helium OS [3] - is the basis for our edge programmability and abstracts the annoying, hard things like battery/power management, wireless, and security. Also OTA upgrades are built in. :)

mark@helium.com

[1] helium.com [2] https://store.helium.com/ [3] https://www.helium.com/helium-os/

Don't know if you'll still see this. Cool. But one thing. It would be easier for me to get a sign-off from management on a one time purchase of $10k than a $4/month recurring. Corporate sales is funny like that.

I had a Helium in my SF office window for 6 months back when you were doing low power wireless :)

Very cool. I had heard rumors that Tim was working on this. He did some great work with the NoSQL Tapes [0] a while back. I'm hoping these are of a similar caliber.

[0] http://nosqltapes.com/

Very cool. What's the thinking behind shipping with Swift support despite it still being in beta?

JP from Realm here, I worked on our (experimental) Swift support. Swift as a language is pretty unstable right now, but it's clear that Apple sees it as the future of iOS and OSX development. So we wanted to start experimenting with how to make Realm feel right at home in Swift.

Cryo, we know that module well and it works with Helium. Dresden make an excellent SoC. Shoot us an email, hello@helium.co

Hey Sanddancer, Helium can run without direct access to the internet. It's designed to be a small portable stack. Shoot us a message. Would love to hear about some of your use cases. hello@helium.co

-sean

Hey Madaxe. Helium never has to know the contents of a payload. We encrypt it to keep the information secure, but you can further encrypt that payload via your own requirements with very little effort.

Hey noonespecial, Just a quick point. The radio is based on 802.15.4 which is an open standard. Much of our end node code is going to be open source, if not all.