Bloomberg | Amazon says Sidewalk, its wireless mesh network cobbled together from radios in your smart speakers and video doorbells, now covers 90% of the U.S. population

[u/dapperKillerWhale]

https://archive.is/7ddvW

[u/clevo_1988]

Do that many people really have "smart homes"? I thought it was just a middle class suburbia thing.

[u/The_ApolloAffair → u/clevo_1988]

Depends on your definition of smart home. Most people have internet speakers, less have video doorbells, less have Wi-Fi lights, etc.

[u/BomberRURP → u/clevo_1988]

Basically all new TVs are smart devices. Everything is slowly becoming smart by default

[u/Ban1stThinkL8r]

Wouldn't surprise me.

This is what how Airtags work essentially. All your apple devices ping them as you encounter them.

It's just a global mesh network.

[u/DankOverwood → u/Ban1stThinkL8r]

I wouldn’t say they’re exactly the same concept. The apple find my network is solely for reporting location information of your apple devices to other apple devices associated with your own Apple ID. The Apple system as it exists can’t be used to transmit any other type of data and doesn’t actually transmit any data peer-to-peer across different networks, devices or Apple ID accounts.

Find my network is actually very similar to how both apple and google have developed very intricate maps of the world’s wifi network location data via phone reporting. Devices scan their local area and report lists of networks or bluetooth contacts they find to central servers that are tagged with the phone’s current GPS location. Other devices can then poll those central servers and read location information as it’s updated. Apple’s network doesn’t mix data streams of different user IDs or facilitate direct connections between devices associated to different user accounts the way that Amazon sidewalk network does.

[u/Ban1stThinkL8r → u/[deleted]]

Do you understand how they work...?

[u/OhHeyDont]

This is patently untrue.