Summary

This project started with the disruptive idea of using VHF narrowband channels and the 150MHz MURS band for IoT. At these low frequencies (close to the FM band) radio waves can travel far enough to cover entire cities. This extended range can reduce CAPEX and OPEX by orders of magnitude enabling cheap city scale IoT networks.

It was selected among the top 5 projects and presented in the disruptive technology review to Satya Nadella in 2016. Thereafter, I developed a solution and a PoC for field services with Compass group as a customer helping them track their vehicles over a 300Sq Km area using only one base-station covering Redmond, Bellevue, Sammamish, Bothel, Medina and parts of seattle. After operating for one year, it was transitioned into Microsoft Project IoN.