Amazon Sidewalk

It's still a fixed network that requires some level of maintenance by the customers.

And Sidewalk became the ultimate game changer for that simplicity piece.

That was the true unlock for this particular segment.

And so because we offer Amazon Sidewalk, which is completely infrastructure-less as an option, Most of our customers can leverage at least some portion of their system connecting over sidewalk.

And then we can augment that with the LoRaWAN connectivity we still have built in.

And they have this belt and suspenders approach to connectivity, which is unique in the water industry.

Not everybody, most technologies only have one type of communications built in.

Okay, and for those of us not that well-versed in Sidewalk and the other technologies, can you explain to us, like we're five, what are the differences between those technologies and what made it into such a game-changer?

So if your next door neighbor has like a guest network without a password, your television might be connecting to that.

We know that Amazon does a similar thing with Sidewalk where You might turn off internet on a device itself, but that device is looking for other similar devices and connecting in a mesh so that your IoT devices never lose connectivity because Amazon would hate that.

So yeah, there's a lot of this stuff that starts to get nefarious.

We want you to break open televisions and tell us, okay, is there some sort of program you can find that says automatically find an open network and connect to it if it's DeFi? Is there some sort of eSIM module in there that we haven't

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So I'll be honest, I had actually forgotten about Amazon Sidewalk completely, but apparently that is still a thing.

And along with the other ideas this person had really made me think twice about, wow, keeping my TV unplugged from the internet might not be enough.