Amazon Enables Sidewalk Network For IoT Applications

Summary:

  • Amazon has been building a low-bandwidth wide-area network called Sidewalk that’s optimized for consumer- and business-focused IoT applications and that now covers 90% of the US population.
  • While the network isn’t new, with this week’s announcements about Sidewalk’s expanded coverage area and the release of developer software and hardware tools from companies like Silicon Labs, Nordic Semiconductor and Texas Instruments, it’s taken on a new level of importance.
  • Technically, Sidewalk leverages the Wi-Fi-based internet links of the millions of Echo smart speakers and Ring cameras that Amazon has sold since mid-2019. It’s referred to as an ad hoc network because there is no central point of control.

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To say that it’s rare for there to be a new network for devices to tap into would be an understatement. Both cellular and Wi-Fi networks, for example, have been around for decades. Over the last few years, however, it turns out Amazon (



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