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

Hah I did the opposite. I set up an OpenSmartphoneTestFarm (openSTF) instance at the office so people working from home could fully control smartphones inside the office to debug wifi issues. Because some countries had lockdowns at different times, so it could be that production users could work in the office but some of our support people couldn't. It worked pretty well actually. https://openstf.io/ But they... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Did you know this exists? https://openstf.io/. Source: almost 2 years ago