Home devices + Helium = edge infrastructure that skips telcos and clouds entirely
"Hashing It Out #70 - Akash Network - Greg Osuri" (Hashing It Out (The Bitcoin Podcast Network))
“Super mini, when it’s connected to a Helium device, provides an inference layer because a lot of these [IoT] devices are super low-powered… So imagine now you’re essentially creating an edge infrastructure that skips the big telcos and the big clouds altogether. So that significantly reduces the cost envelope when it comes to deploying these edge IoT devices.” — 00:48:07
Context: Early (Jan 2020) articulation of home hardware doing AI inference at the edge for mesh-network IoT (quote spans into the 00:48:53 block) — years before the “local AI” framing became mainstream.