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Adam, Thingsquare CEO here.

The Thingsquare platform connects products with smartphone apps, which is similar to what many other platforms do, including HomeKit, Brillo, and Parse's IoT platform. Unlike other platforms though, Thingsquare allow secure remote access even for products that aren't always in range of WiFi or BLE. We're using a self-healing wireless mesh so that products can cover large installations and work nicely even in places with poor WiFi.

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How will a 6LoWPAN mesh fare against WiFi/BLE meshes, as the market seems to move towards the latter?

Not sure the market really is moving towards WiFi/BLE - there is a lot of talk about BLE meshing right now, but so far haven't really amounted to much it seems.

The strongest part of 6lowpan meshes right now is that it supports sub-GHz communication, which has much longer range and less interference than 2.4 Ghz.

In the end though it doesn't really matter which radio technology is being used, as long as it gets stable Internet connectivity. Once you're there, the backend is easy to reach.

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