I've used outdoor soil sensors from mydevices.com. Once I told them to stop trying to upsell me on the Lora gateways and use Helium, its worked flawlessly. Its been like 6 months and the battery still registers 100%. Reports every 15 minutes and the data credits find their way to 3-4 different hotspots in the area. Source: almost 3 years ago

Another site that shows data transfer activity: https://mappers.helium.com/ Here's some examples of potential uses: https://www.lonestartracking.com/ (track anything anywhere) my brother wishes he had one of these when his maintenance truck stolen. https://mydevices.com/ (plug and play IOT sensors) I'm talking to one of my customers who is a landscape architect, he wants to monitor his larger landscape projects... Source: almost 3 years ago

Sure MS has a product. It's more expensive and harder to use, though...Azure IOT hub - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/iot-hub. Source: about 1 year ago

Azure IoT Hub is a managed cloud service which provides bi-directional communication between the cloud and IoT devices. It is a platform as a service for building IoT solutions. Being an azure offering, it has security and scalability built-in as well as making it easy to integrate with other Azure services. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

I am currently working on an IoT Project for my Bachelor's thesis. The goal is to gather data from an existing machine and send it to an Azure cloud via AMQP. To do this I have set up an IoT Hub and will be using the Azure IoT Edge runntime to connect and send the Data. For initial development, I have authenticated my devices to the cloud using symmetric keys generated by the IoT hub. Now I want to switch to... Source: over 2 years ago