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E-sun Electronics Ltd/ Panther X

Summary

E-sun Electronics understands the importance of a paradigm shift for decentralized wireless infrastructure powered by the Helium Blockchain. We are delighted to become a third-party manufacturer and build a high-efficiency regular hotspot (Panther X). In the near future, our aim is not just contributing the connective grid for the helium network, but also developing and providing the tools and sensors to the business parties.

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Company information

E-sun Electronics Ltd, founded in 2014, is an intelligent manufacturing company based in Hong Kong. Panther X series Hotspot is E-sun's competitive product in the domain of IoT in the future decade. The engineering team at Panther X consists of seasoned industry veterans from tech, R&D, blockchain and manufacturing companies such as Canaan and Browan communications. They have developed many well-known and respected mining equipment such as Avalon. Panther X is committed to the perfect combination of the blockchain technology and Internet of Things, powering Helium to quickly achieve global network coverage and application launch.

Product Information

What is your approximate price point?

$499

Detailed hardware designs, including relevant parts

Helium Hotspot Indoor Miner Features

  • Concentrator based on the Semtech SX1302
  • Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
  • 4 GB LPDDR4
  • ATECC608A for swarm keys storage
  • Bluetooth 5.0
  • 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz WiFi
  • Gigabit Ethernet
  • 64 GB micro SD Card
  • 1 LED (with 3 colors) for status indication
  • 1 button for factory reset

Option:

  • GPS
  • RTC

Evidence of a functioning prototype - photos, videos. Renderings are OK but physical prototypes are much, much better.

We host a private LoRa network server (based on lorawan-server) and use Raspberry Pi 4 and an adapter board (self-designed and built) for the hardware test and the power consumption of the whole prototype is ~ 5W.

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Your plan for software setup and configuration for the devices. This would presumably include remote updates and the ability for hosts to change wifi settings, via Helium's official app or otherwise.

We will support the official Helium application and provide a customized setup and configuration environment based on OpenWrt. In order to ensure a good user experience, we are happy to do our best and work with the community to prioritize improving the official Helium application. For technology geeks, we recommend the OpenWrt version.

What is your expected production and delivery timeline? Photos and videos welcome.

Timeline:
Pre-sale -15 August 2021
Mass production - 25 August 2021
Shipping to customers - Expected on Early September 2021

Customer Support

We will set up a team to provide customers with comprehensive pre-sales consultation and after-sales service. The customer service center which includes the pre-sale consulting department, technical service department, and product maintenance department. The technical service department is responsible for solving technical problems that may arise while the after-sales services focuses on reporting, processing and fixing the technical issues raised by customers. The product maintenance department is responsible for product maintenance and order traceability.

We provide a 2-Year Warranty for our hardware.

Customers can contact us via email, Discord, Twitter, Telegram, Instagram and official website.

Hardware Security

In terms of hardware security, we implement three levels of protection measures. The higher the level, the safer the system will be.

Level 1: protect swarm_key with ATECC608A.

Level 2: Based on Level 1, the SSH access of the hotspot adopts a password-free scheme, which is carried out entirely through the private key, but the private key is not stored on the hotspot.

Level 3: Based on Level 2, we add firmware signature support, but do not support third-party firmware upgrade.

Hardware Information

  • Which security (swarm) element are you using?
    ATECC608A

  • Which LoRa chipset are you planning to use in your gateway (ie SX1302/03 & SX1250s or SX1301/08 & SX1255/57)
    SX1302&SX1250

  • Where are you sourcing your components from?
    Our components are sourced from all over the world, both online and offline. We have established good cooperation with a number of big suppliers who reserve enough components for us.

  • How many radio modules/ concentrators can you procure?
    We aim to produce at least 10000 pcs every month.

Manufacturing Information

BROWAN COMMUNICATIONS (referred to as Browan) is an important partner of E-sun, responsible for the mass production of Panther X.

Browan is a professional wireless equipment company founded in 1999. The company is one of the Gemtek Group’s (Taiwan listed company, stock code 4906) companies that is focusing in leveraging the wireless technology Know-How accumulated over the years to address the emerging businesses of the Internet of Things. BROWAN, focuses on the integration of wireless technology such as WiFi, BLE, LTE and LoRa.

Proof of Identity

To be submitted privately to DeWi.

Budget & Capital

We have sufficient funding support to produce the hardware in large volumes. We aim to produce at least 10000 pcs every month.

Risks & Challenges

Our customer orders are growing significantly. We are expanding our assembly line in accordance with the demand growth. We firmly believe that the biggest risk may come from the shortage of related chips and various components. Therefore, enhancing and expanding our supply chain is the most important task in our industries.

Other information