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Hologram
Company blog · hologram.io/bloghardwaresystems
Hologram is the company blog at hologram.io, writing about hardware and systems. Since 2016, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Cellular Connectivity for the Internet of Things – Hologram”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (20) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Hologram's pricing and blog pages when comparing cellular IoT SIM plans and connectivity for devices. The comments treat it as a provider and do not judge its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 20 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Connect, manage, and scale your devices effortlessly with Hologram—the most reliable and flexible global IoT solution for seamless, always-on connectivity.
Most-linked posts?
- /pricing/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-11-02
- /pricing/flexible-data4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-12-05
- Cellular Connectivity for the Internet of Things – Hologram3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-12-17
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-12-01
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-11-12
- We Don't Hate PHP2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-17
What Hacker News says?
Going by Hologram's public pricing, a GNSS "heartbeat" per-minute would cost $4/month on a PAYG model. With tiered contract pricing, I'd expect that to drop to $1/month for a mid/large-sized telematics organisation. https://hologram.io/pricing/
Comment linking /pricing/
on “What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch”Submitted We Don't Hate PHP as a story · 57 points
HN discussionNo https://www.hologram.io/blog/what-is-an-esim-and-how-is-it-u... . > The eSIM (embedded SIM) is a small chip soldered directly to a board inside a device
Comment linking /blog/what-is-an-esim-and-how-is-it-used
on “This Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem”Submitted Using Nvidia Jetson and OpenDataCam to Explore Computer Vision and IoT Analytics as a story · 14 points
HN discussionHologram | Backend Engineering, Full-Stack Engineer, Demand Generation, Marketing | Chicago, IL, Relocation Possible | Onsite At Hologram ( https://hologram.io/ ), our mission is to build the platform creating connected products, including hardware (the Hologram Dash and SIM cards), connecting to the Hologram cellular network, and web applications for managing devices and data. We are venture backed and growing fast…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Celebrating Pride 2020: Stories of LGBTQ+ community members impacting tech as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttps://particle.io and https://hologram.io have almost worldwide availability for SIM's designed for this. There are probably older less-hip suppliers as well.
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on “Inside a low-budget consumer hardware espionage implant”Submitted Hologram Hyper SIM as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHow is this different to Hologram[1] or EsEye[2]? Hologram seems to offer an api with as much access as twilio's (data usage report, switching between "networks" (what package you buy, which includes certain countries and pricing...) and monthly payment of a fleet of chips. I'm failing to see the added value of twilio, but the more competency the better! [1]: https://hologram.io/ [2]: https://www.eseye.com/
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on “Twilio Super SIM”Submitted Clearing up the term “eSIM” as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHologram is another example, and there are many more but enterprise-focused. https://hologram.io/
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on “Twilio Super SIM”Submitted Hologram announces the next generation of Hyper IoT SIM with network fallback as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>But unless mobile carriers start offering very cheap plans for IOT devices (which is in itself unlikely) Like this? https://hologram.io/pricing/ https://www.particle.io/pricing/#cellular-data
Comment linking /pricing/
on “When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too”Submitted The New Hologram Dashboard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWell, i'm not counting the phone (pretty much ANY tracker requires a phone/computer to view results) which I assume is a given. I'm specifically speaking about the phone PLAN which is where the real money goes. A phone service plan will cost $20/mo in the US easily, so thats $250/yr forever. At this point, tracking luggage/bicycles isnt cost effective...the tracker starts to become more expensive than the tracked. T…
Comment linking /pricing/flexible-data
on “Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online”Submitted Cellular Connectivity for the Internet of Things – Hologram as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>i'm expecting an extra $20/mo for a phone plan I'm sure you can get prepaid/IOT plans for less, eg. https://www.hologram.io/pricing/flexible-data
Comment linking /pricing/flexible-data
on “Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online”Submitted How to Save Sheep with Cellular IoT as a story · 1 points
HN discussionWas going to post the same thing. I wonder how the two compare. Pricing-wise, seems like Twilio has higher fixed but lower usage costs: https://www.twilio.com/docs/iot/supersim | Starting at $2 per active Super SIM per month. | Data Usage - Starting at $0.10 / MB. https://hologram.io/pricing/ | $1 per device per month + $0.38 / MB. Of course these prices depend on device volume. Twilio may be able to offer lower cos…
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Twilio Super Sim – Public Beta”If you're interested in this space, Hologram does the same thing (and appears to have had a head start compared to Twilio): https://hologram.io
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on “Twilio Super Sim – Public Beta”Pretty interesting perspective - maybe check out the Hologram Dash which is programmed with the Arduino IDE + has full compatibility with Arduino functions. It includes a cell modem as well: https://hologram.io/dash/
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on “The End of Arduino 101: Intel Leaves Maker Market”I was investigating solutions for sensor SMS notifications & the best IoT type SIM plan that I came across was https://www.hologram.io/pricing/flexible-data . $1.50/line per month, $0.19/outbound SMS, data is pricey. If you need more SMS, the next cheapest I've used is RedPocket Mobile-- https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-50-Mo-Red-Pocket-Prepaid-Plan-200... - $30/yr for 200 voice/1000 texts/200mb per month on T-Mobile's ne…
Comment linking /pricing/flexible-data
on “Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway”They could use Hologram's SIM which uses T-Mobile's 2G and 3G network as well as AT&T in the US [1] [1] https://hologram.io/cellular/
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on “Transit starts crowd-sourcing real-time transit times as official feed breaks”Have you checked https://hologram.io/iot-sim-card/ ?
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on “Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork”You probably want to look into M2M(machine to machine) plans if you don't plan on using standard telephone features with your device and just want data. A lot of companies offer this service these days. For example(random googling first result): https://hologram.io/pricing/ is offering M2M sims for $1 per SIM per month + 40 cents per mb.
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on “Solar Powered Raspberry Pi Camera”The senior engineers should have been more honest ("screw you and your pet language, we won't be using this garbage here") instead of getting the author to run various useless side quests. This is the company he is talking about: https://www.hologram.io/blog/why-we-dont-hate-php They love PHP and Python. Good for them, I don't like those languages but why would I get a job there and try to get them to use a language…
Comment linking /blog/why-we-dont-hate-php
on “Rust advocacy at a medium-sized startup”OP what type of Huawei dongle is it? If it's one of the old Hi Link modems, maybe this tutorial would work: https://hologram.io/docs/guide/connect/e303 Otherwise it could be a newer MS-2131i which requires a little more configuration.
Comment linking /docs/guide/connect/e303
on “Secrets of the Medtronic MyCareLink Patient Monitor”One issue to note is carrier. ATT is now blocking devices that are not on their "approved" list. You may need to go with an alt carrier like Hologram or TMobile: https://www.hologram.io/products/iot-sim-card
Comment linking /products/iot-sim-card
on “Ask HN: I want a modern 2-way pager with clamshell keyboard. Does this exist?”Hmm... I was seriously ready to scoff at this when I saw a link to att.com in a show hn, but I'm not so sure this is scoff-worthy... It's (basically) $25 per GB across a fleet + $1 per device per month. While that sounds bad for anyone comparing it to a individual device plan it's way better than anything I've personally seen for the 'IoT' plans before. The closest I've ever seen before was https://hologram.io/prici…
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on “Show HN: Low cost IoT Data plans”GPS modules are dirt cheap, and easy to interface to even an Arduino. The questions to be answered How would you power said device? - Using the vehicle's power should be fairly easy. You would want to mount it under the hood, with the antenna disguised so that it's not screamingly obvious, also doable. How would you transmit the data back to yourself? That is the tricky issue. You'd need some sort of IOT service to…
Comment linking /pricing/flexible-data
on “Open Source GPS Reciever [Vehicle]”
