As a startup we’ve quickly established the largest, public IoT network in the US. Despite only shipping Hotspots nationwide starting last mid-October, we’ve proved our incentive-based approach can rapidly scale.

Alone, the network would have taken much longer to build, and costs would have been much higher. To see the ongoing result of network growth check here.

Coverage + Usage = Successful network

We need to drive network usage and, like building coverage, we can’t do it alone. Meaningful usage of the network will require a community of developers, and of course widescale usage by forward-thinking companies.

To expose and educate developers to the network and the tools and services we offer, we’re providing developer documentation, webinars, programs, and have many other initiatives in the queue. Sign up here to keep up.

To move quickly, we’ve added the capability to easily integrate with leading endpoints to send device data.

Prebuilt or Custom Integrations

We’ve categorized integrations into Prebuilt (literally single click), or Custom.

Single-click

Besides Helium Cargo, which is an evaluation tool we’ve built for trackers, we’ve added a prebuilt integration with myDevices Cayenne.

The Caynne dashboard is free (sign up here), and allows users to rapidly send device data across the network and display it in their dashboard with ready-to-use widgets based on data type.

Cayenne natively supports over 200 pre-configured sensors from over 50 different hardware manufacturers. Unsupported devices can still send data, but need to encode payloads using the Cayenne Low Power Payload (LPP) format.

To learn how to see data sent over the Helium network in a Caynne dashboard go here.

Flexible

Custom integrations give users the flexibility to build their own integrations. We’ve built out a number based on protocol: HTTP, and MQTT, and recently added integration with AWS IoT Core.

Instructions here on how to quickly integrate with AWS IoT Core.

We’ll continue to make it easy to integrate with leading IoT platforms including Microsoft Azure IoT, and Google Cloud IoT.

Accelerate your learning

To accelerate learning our engineers host webinars to walk participants step by step through various tutorials.

The next webinar guides users through the latest myDevices and AWS IoT Core integrations. Register here.