Light Hotspots

	Weekly status:  March 2023	HQ location	HIP19 Application Received	DeWi KYC/B	Regulatory Certification Complete
2	Smart Harvest	Canada	TRUE	TRUE	FCC/ISED PENDING
3	SEEED/ SenseCAP	China	TRUE	TRUE	CE/FCC PENDING
4	Tektelic Light Gateway	Canada	TRUE	TRUE	CE/FCC pending (Jan. 2022)
5	Nebra Light		TRUE	TRUE	FCC, CE, UKCA, IC / ISED, MIC, SRRC, WPC, RCM, EAC PENDING
6	Dragino Light Hotspot (indoor, outdoor)	China	TRUE	TRUE	CE/FCC/TELEC ALL PENDING
7	Polyhex – BoHM A		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
8	Polyhex – BoHM B  (alt security)		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
9	HeNet B.V. / LongAP	Netherlands	TRUE	TRUE	CE PENDING
10	Browan – MerryIOT Light S1/S2 (Indoor/Light)	Taiwan	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
11	Bobcat/ EasyLinkin alt security implementation, Light Hotspot	China	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
12	Miromico AG	Switzerland	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
13	Systems4U	Portugal	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
14	HeNet B.V. / LongAP (alt security)	Netherlands	TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
15	OxTech (indoor)		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
16	Midas		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
17	omSquare – Light		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
18	Kerlink – Light		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
19	Pisces – Light (Indoor)		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
20	EDA Technology – Light		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
21	COTX – Light Hotspot		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
22	OPTION – Light (Indoor/Outdoor)		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
23	RisingHF – RHF2S027 (Light/Indoor)		TRUE	TRUE	FALSE
24	Chengdu Glacier Cloud Storage Technology – Light		TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
25	CALDIGIT		TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
26	ClodPI Light		TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
27	Heltec – HT-M7603 (Light)		TRUE	FALSE	FALSE

    The official GitHub Helium Status Tracker:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pOmrMV_oiF0FtR1NOX_pqykKOBsb_QghiNkTlF644DU/edit#gid=1880339342 Status key

• Draft: HIP is in process of being written; author is not yet soliciting feedback from the community at large
• In Discussion: HIP is under active consideration by the community
• Approved: HIP has been approved by rough consensus, and pending development and testing
• Deployed: Code to implement HIP has been merged and deployed to the network
• Closed: HIP abandoned, rendered obsolete by other changes, or otherwise withdrawn by the author

Architecture

Light Hotspot Properties

When the Light Hotspot Client is fully developed and in production (which will happen with the completion of Milestone 4 detailed below) they will satisfy the following properties:

• A Hotspot on the Helium network that, via Validators, can participate in PoC beacons and witnesses, and forwards data packets;
• Does not store a copy of the Blockchain, eliminating synchronization;
• Does not create challenges (relies on Validators to create challenges on their behalf);
• Does not participate in Consensus Groups (relies on Validators for block production);
• Will no longer depend on libp2p or “gossip”, and instead use gRPC, a new framework to communicate between distributed systems;
• Will be eligible to earn $HNT (see table below)

In other words, the client will allow the Hotspot to participate as a Full Hotspot, without the extra overhead of maintaining a local copy of the blockchain.