<div><div dir="auto">On a related note, I’m working on an apartment building’s basement temperature monitor that uses APRS because the area has no Wi-Fi, it’s in a basement in an 8 story building (so i can’t beam Wi-Fi or zigbee or LoRA to it effectively), cell network access is present but an LTE module, SIM, and service plan for even a few MB/month is extremely overpriced. Meanwhile, there is a digipeater/iGate well within range that receives packets from the location using my Baofeng UV-5R on low power. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I want to monitor the basement because I think it stays cold/warm enough throughout the winter that it could be a good place to store my lagering beers. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Arguably the CWOP weather stations dotted all over the country is a perfect example of a constellation of sensors reporting their current weather situation, routed to NWS and distributed to the public through a basic GIS system. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What other applications (besides weather and beer temp monitoring) would APRS IoT enable? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 18:29 John Langner WB2OSZ <<a href="mailto:wb2osz@comcast.net">wb2osz@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br>
W2EV wrote:<br>
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> Imagine having a constellation of sensors, reporting back "situational<br>
awareness"<br>
> data in real time. Imagine a router to redirect the applicable data from<br>
the <br>
> APRS-IS to a command center where it can become simply another "layer" <br>
> in their realtime/situational GIS.<br>
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Here are some thoughts about combining Ham Radio with IoT:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/wb2osz/hrot" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/wb2osz/hrot</a> <br>
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73,<br>
John WB2OSZ<br>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">—<br>Sterling</div>