I’ve been investigating radio networking a bit lately for a side project I’m thinking about. This summarizes what I’ve learned. Different radio networking technologies in the hobbyist space have a fundamental tradeoff between range, bandwidth and power usage. Increasing range or bandwidth tends to increase power usage. So one has to ask questions like, how much data do you want to exchange on your network, at what rate, how far apart are they, and will your devices be powered. WiFi is a...
