Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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This week on IoT Happy Hour we are joined by the Helium team. We are going to celebrate that there are more than 50.000 hotspots out there using Helium LoRaWAN network.

Hang out on the Happy Hour and learn about the Helium People's Network, the chip shortage struggle, validators and the future of the Helium hotspots.

Install the Helium Light Hotspot on your Pi if you have a LoRa concentrator hub.balena.io/nebraltd/helium-light-hotspot


00:00 Welcome and introductions
03:47 balena is hiring
08:48 What's on your desk?
18:08 What's Helium?
25:48 Helium in Antartica?
26:55 What is a Helium Hotspot?
28:24 Helium Improvement Proposals
30:38 LoraWAN gateways or Helium Hotspots
37:15 How to use the Helium network?
38:10 DIY being reopened?
39:28 Hotspots availability and chip shortage crisis
40:42 Light gateways and Light hotspots
43:45 What are the Validators and the Consensus groups?
51:00 balena and Helium
53:10 Is mining energy efficient?
55:22 Are ISPs able to block Helium network?
57:00 Nebra is using balena
58:25 balenaHub and Nebra Light Hotspot
1:02:10 What's next on Helium?
1:06:53 balena is hiring
1:08:30 Good bye