Sony built an IoT chip with a 60 mile range (opens in new tab)

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I wonder why they went with their own proprietary network as opposed to lorawan. Would be good to know what they found lacking. Probably the range due to 915 mhz fcc power limits. 60 miles is very impressive. Also couldn't figure out the data rate.

This will be useful for smaller mines which don't have the funds to install expensive 2.4 ghz mesh nodes to track and route their trucks.

We should kill FM Radio stations already and use the frequency for these kind of things. The range and data-rates are excellent and the power consumption is low. If you want to listen to music or the news while in your car, LTE is cheaper than ever.

Taggle.com.au did this years ago, with similar range. They now use the technology to drive remote water meter reading in Australia. The hard bit is the receivers, plucking very low signals out of a lot of noise.

As an aside, the "Oath family" is not in my opinion GDPR compliant. Burying opt-out at least 4 pages down (I don't know, I never found the actual opt-out page) in obscurantist language is a dark pattern.