Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) is a relatively new standard that provides extended range and penetration through walls and other obstacles, but the tradeoff is low throughput. HaLow’s sweet spot is industrial IoT, building automation, security, access control, utility smart meters and intelligent grids.
The HaLow standard was approved in September 2016 and published in May 2017. Uptake was initially slow, with few products certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance. Lately Wi-Fi HaLow has been seeing increased adoption, and among the vendors with Certified Wi-Fi HaLow products is AsiaRF. Here’s our hand-on assessment of working with AsiaRF’s Wi-Fi mesh gateway, which features a star topology that enables 8,000 connections for industrial IoT use cases.
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