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Z-Wave Long Range and its mile-long capabilities will arrive next year - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

I'd rather set up a point-to-point wireless link with directional antennas and exactly two base stations than rely on every little IoT device having long range. Better yet, such a link could be high-bandwidth and capable of handling things like data backups and Internet access failover.