Today, Amazon Sidewalk opens up to all developers. Now anyone who wants to make their smart-home gadget work as an endpoint in Amazon's public mesh network—enabling it to both provide a wireless signal and slurp up nearby bandwidth when needed—can do so.
gadgets can latch onto. The idea is that Sidewalk helps your devices stay connected to the internet even if they're far away from your router. Think of the Ring camera out in your backyard. Sidewalk gives it a more stable connection by enabling it to connect to other Ring cameras and use their Wi-Fi networks to talk to the internet.
Since it launched, Sidewalk has only been compatible with some Amazon smart-home devices and those from early partners like Tile. Today, Amazon Sidewalk opens up to all developers. Now anyone who wants to make their smart-home gadget work as an endpoint in Amazon's public mesh network—enabling it to both provide a wireless signal and slurp up nearby bandwidth when needed—can do so.
This new developer program should lead to more Sidewalk-enabled products from other companies—speakers, cameras, digital picture frames, smart scales, thermostats, robot vacuums, televisions, you name it. It could also give a boost to devices out on the street, which would no longer have to rely on cellular data to stay connected. Delivery robots could use Sidewalk to stay online while they wheel toward your house.
To test the coverage in my area, Amazon sent me a Sidewalk test kit. It's the same test kit developers can order today to sniff for signal strength in their own area. The kit is a little fob about the size of a matchbox that's branded with a Ring logo. I charged it up, clipped it to my backpack, and walked around the city. Every few seconds, its single blue LED blinked as it sent a ping to Amazon, which recorded the fob's location and the strength of the Sidewalk signal in that spot.
A few times, friends noticed the blinking fob and asked what it was. I told them about it and offered a quick Sidewalk explainer. They hadn't heard of Sidewalk, and most of them were stunned to learn that their Echo speakers and Ring cameras were sharing a slice of their home network's signal out into the world for public use.
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