Application to become an approved third party manufacturer as per HIP19.
It was a pleasure to discover Helium blockchain, and Flying Wolf looks forward to onborading our devices to Helium! Officially established in the province of British Columbia, Canada, Flying Wolf (originally registered as Boundary Wolf Holdings Ltd.) is startup company mainly focusing on developing and deploying artifically intelligent IoT products for commercial and residential properties. The core team of Flying Wolf started research and development in 2019. We started customer discovery and prototype testings in 2020, and formally filed for incorporation in 2021. Our prototypes are now deployed in commercial and residential properties in Richmond, Vancouver, and West Vancouver and a few local real estate developers have become our client.
- What is your company name?
- Flying Wolf
- How long has the company been in business?
- Flying Wolf is a technology firm dedicated to providing enterprise-level Smart Internet of Things Solutions (AIoT) to real estate developers. The core team has started research and development back in 2019. Customer discovery and prototype testings were initiated in 2020. With the first B2B client being obtained in 2021, the core team filed for official incorporation.
- What kind of products have you created? (list specific products, include links if possible)
- As a startup company in collaboration with University of British Columbia, Flying Wolf has been mainly focusing on research and development.
- All products are at Technology Rediness Level 8 according to the standards of the Government of Canada. This means that the products have been proven to work in their final forms and under expected conditions during developmental testings and evaluations.
- Products include:
- Tracker devices based on LoRa, without GPS - tracking pets, valuable belongings, and children.
- LoRa Gateways - used in enterprise IoT solutions for data receiving and transmission
- Smart Access systems - used in office settings, already in deployment process for London Plaza, Richmond, BC.
- Smart Parking lot edge computing gateways - used in commercial parking lot, already in deployment process for London Plaza, Richmond, BC.
- How many have you sold?
- ~100 gateways, 5 sets of access systems, 1 set of smart parking lot solution (gateways, routers, and Apps included)
- What brought you to the Helium Network?
- Our company has been looking for an appropriate IoT blockchain for onborading our devices.
- We think Helium Network is beneficial for large-scale IoT projects because coverage using Wi-Fi is unnecessary and expensive in these settings. We appreciate the fact that Helium Network cover large regions while allowing for a decentralized management of end nodes. Using HNT as the currency for connecting end devices to the network and transmitting data is also ideal for the large-scale IoT projects that our company has planned and designed for our clients.
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What is this product's model name?
- Flying Wolf 2000
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Is this is a Light Hotspot or a 5G Hotspot?
- Light hotspot
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Is this model for indoor, outdoor, or both? (If there are two different models for indoor and outdoor, list them separately.)
- Indoor
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Provide a brief description of the product:
- 16-channel Smart LoRa Gateway (Coverage Radius 5km in city, 10km in rural area)
- Memory 2GB/4GB/8GB LPDDR4 SDRAM
- Processor Raspberry Pi 4 (Broadcom BCM2711, Quad core Cortex-A72)
- Storage 32G MicroSD Card
- Ethernet 100/1000M(RJ45)
- Wi-Fi 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz IEEE 802.11ac wireless
- BLE Bluetooth 5.0
- GNSS GPS+BeiDou （Optional）
- LoRa Sensitivity -125dBm @125KHz/SF7
- -139dBm @125KHz/SF12
- LoRa Feature SX1302 Mini PCIe card
- Frequency: EU868/US915/AS923/AU915
- LoRa Antenna Gain 3DBi
- Input Voltage DC 5V-3A
- Interfaces USB Type-C(Power)*1
- Ethernet RJ45*1
- RP-SMA Female Antenna Connector*1
- Product Weight 929833mm
- Size 310g
- Operating Temperature -10℃~55℃
- Installation method Wall mounting
- 16-channel Smart LoRa Gateway (Coverage Radius 5km in city, 10km in rural area)
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What is your approximate price point?
- 400 USD
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What is your expected production and delivery timeline?
- Firmware Integration: Completed
- RF Performance Testing: Completed
- Hardware Prototype: Ready to send upon request
- Dewi Hardware verification: July 2022
- FCC, IC & CE Certification: July 2022
- First Batch Production: August 2022
- First Batch Delivery: Before October 2022
- Have you shipped anything in the past?
- We have shipped prototype products to enterprise clients in Canada, United States, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.
- Our core team include members who are familiar with international trade. We have experience on dealing with the policies on selling and shipping radio hardware products to Canada, United States, Switzerland, Taiwan, Hongkong, Singapore, Japan, United Kingdom and France.
- What types of products have you shipped?
- Bulk orders of antenna
- Bulk orders of gateways (LoRa gateways and edge computing gateways)
- Mini trackers
- Smart access control panel and smart locks
- Which countries have you previously shipped regulatory approved products? (FCC, CE, etc.)
- FCC: United States and Canada
- CE: United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Singapore
- If you are a startup, are you partnering with another company? What experience does your team have?
- We are partnering with University of British Columbia (UBC) for research and development. Professor Chen Feng from the Okanagan campus of UBC is our research consultant and collaborator. His research group is experienced with blockchain development, computer vision, voice recognition, and blockchain maintenance. His group has participated in the improvement and bug fixes of Dapper lab blockchain network. We are parterning with his group on future large-scale AIoT projects.
- Our Chief Technology Officer is Johnathan Yue, a experienced software developer and blockchain developer who has worked in Yahoo and VMWare in the past. He has studied in University of Carlifornia, Berkeley, and has obtained a PhD Degree from University of Illinois Chicago in computer science. His two GitHub profiles are Github.com/datajaguar/jaguardb and Github.com/omicro-labs/omicro. His past work on blockchain development is avaliable at http://omicro.co/v/omicro.html.
- We are partnering with Radacat Technology (www.radacat.com) for distribution of our Helium hotspots in North America and Europe. Radacat Techology has previous experience of selling LoRa-enabled products on Shopify and Amazon. Their team has fulfilled radio electronic hardwares to Canada, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Japan, Singapore, Netherlands, Switzerland, and many other countries in the past 6 years.
- We are partnering with Aupera (www.aupera.com) to incorporate our smart LoRa gateways into video processing solutions for data receiving and transmission, which will allow for enterprise-level use cases of our LoRa gateways.
United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Iceland, Croatia, Moldova, Monaco, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Morocco, Zambia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, The Sultanate of Oman, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Jordan, Israel.
- How will your customers be able to contact you for support for this products?
- Our in-house technology team will be reachable via Discord or email and will aim to respond within 24-48 hours.
- Our in-house customer service team can provide pre-sale and after-sale support via phone, email and Discord. For repair or replacement requests due to manufacturing defects or faulty units, customers need to contact our customer service team via email or discord to provide photos and receipts of the product before mailing it back. We will aim to establish local offices for fast repair or replacement services in areas where the sales volume is high, so that customers can mail the product back to a local office for support.
- Our team will also be reachable on Facebook and Twitter.
- How long will the company provide customer support?
- We provide customer support for up to 36 months after the product has been delivered.
- How are you planning to handle repairs and replacements?
- All products with manufacturing defects or faulty components upon delivery will be replaced or repaired at the request of the customer within 30 days. Customers have 30 days to report receiving a defective/faulty unit.
- Products that are damaged due to other reasons can be replaced or repaired at the request of the customer within 36 months of purchasing the product. Customers should contact our team via Discord, email or phone to file a request.
- The community is concerned about devices that can be easily hacked, specifically by copying their swarm_key files. Applications should include plan for how the devices will be secured. The approved security element is an ECC608. If you would like to use an alternative security element your HIP19 will require additional review, please email the Helium Foundation (christina@helium.foundation).
- Are you using an ECC608. Yes or No?
- Yes.
- Encrypted/locked-down firmware. Yes or No?
- Yes. GPG encryption.
- Encrypted storage of the miner swarm_key, either via disk encryption or hardware measures. Yes or No?
- Yes.
- Encrypted buses, potting and other anti-tampering measures. Yes or No? (Please note, the final design will be audited against this statement. Do not answer 'yes' unless the design will have these features and a description of where they are implemented can be provided.)
- No.
- Willingness to submit a prototype for audit, and sharing those audit results publicly (pass or fail) Yes or No?
- Yes.
Evidence of a functioning prototype - photos/videos. Renderings are OK but physical prototypes are much, much better.
- We are happy to submit prototype at any time.
- What are your plans for software setup and configuration for the devices?
- To setup and configure the product, the user needs to download an App from Flying Wolf. When the hotspot is connected to the smartphone via Bluetooth, the hotspot can be configured. All software updates will be done remotely.
- Which security implementation (ECC608, TPM, TrustZone, other) are you using?
- ECC608
- Which LoRa chipset are you planning to use in your gateway? (We recommend you don't use the SX1301 in new designs.)
- SX1302 + SX1250*2
- What is the CPU?
- BCM2711
- Additional Hardware Specifications:
- Have you built and delivered radio hardware products before?
- Yes. We have built LoRa gateways for the smart access control system and the smart parking lot solution. We deployed the prototypes in London Plaza. We have also delivered LoRa gateways to end users.
- We have delivered LoRa trackers to end users.
- Have you built gateways before?
- Yes. We developed the LoRa gateway for the smart access control solution and the smart parking lot solution.
- How many gateways did you make?
- We made ~100 gateways for testings.
- Where are you sourcing your components from?
- We source our components from Semtech, Qualcomm, Microchip. Our manufacturing partner (Excellent Components Limited) is based in Hongkong and has extensive experience with manufacturing radio hardware products. Our exclusive contract and close relationship with Excellent Components Limited will ensure that our manufacturing is prioritized and completed efficiently with high quality.
- How many radio modules/ concentrators can you procure?
- 10,000 SX1302 per month.
Per typical KYC/AML procedures, proof of identity for major shareholders (25%+ ownership) will be expected to be provided privately to representatives from the Helium Foundation. This will be attested and publicly confirmed by those representatives. Details for this will be provided after your application has been submitted on GitHub.
- Proof of identity will be emailed privately upon request.
- How many hotspots are you planning to manufacture and sell within the first six months of sales?
- We plan on manufacturing 10,000 hotspots per month, per batch. We plan on selling at least 50,000 hotspots within the first six months.
- How much money will be required up-front? How much money do you have on-hand, and how much do you have access to?
- Having partners who are experienced with hardware manufacturing and international trade, we have already placed orders for ECC608 and SX1302, which we know to have long lead times. Our in-stock components are sufficient to manufacture and fulfill at least 50,000 hotspots.
- Our financial position is well enough to prepay and preorder for a surplus quantity of the critical components of the hotspots to ensure that we can consistently supply the hotspots to our customers.
- Being a company focusing on IoT solutions for real estate properties, we have clients who look to preorder bulk quantities and prepay for these hotspots once we pass the audit. This will allow us to have a safe cash flow that will ensure smooth operation for at least 12 months.
- What is your plan for additional financing if required? (This is the second biggest risk in new hardware ventures, getting almost over the line and then running out of cash.)
- We are in collaboration with university, which means that our research and projects are eligible for government funding. Additionally, local private investors are already asking to fund our AIoT projects. We are confident about our future cash flow.
Please tell us about some of the challenges that would prevent these products from becoming a reality and how you might address them.
- Delays and long lead times in the current supply chain due to COVID-19 aftermath are the most immediate challenge. Our partnering manufacture has extensive connections and experiences. We also preorder important components of the hotspots far in advance in order to ensure our manufacturing is not affected heavily by changes in supply chain.
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