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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">I’d like to see radiation monitors and water gauges…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> aprssig <<a href="mailto:aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org">aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sterling Mann<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 20, 2019 11:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> John Langner WB2OSZ <<a href="mailto:wb2osz@comcast.net">wb2osz@comcast.net</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [aprssig] APRS: IoT via Ham Radio</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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. </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">What other applications (besides weather and beer temp monitoring) would APRS IoT enable? </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 18:29 John Langner WB2OSZ <<a href="mailto:wb2osz@comcast.net">wb2osz@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><br>W2EV wrote:<br><br>> 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><br>Here are some thoughts about combining Ham Radio with IoT:<br><a href="https://github.com/wb2osz/hrot" target="_blank">https://github.com/wb2osz/hrot</a> <br><br><br>73,<br>John WB2OSZ<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org</a></p></blockquote></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">—<br>Sterling</p></div></div></body></html>