E-sun Electronics Ltd/ PantherX Light
E-sun Electronics understands the importance of a paradigm shift for decentralized wireless infrastructure powered by the Helium Blockchain. Therefore, we are delighted to become a third-party manufacturer and build high-efficiency full or light hotspots. Shortly, we aim to contribute to the connective grid for the helium network and develop and provide the tools and sensors to the business parties.
We submit a new proposal for the PantherX Light hotspot.
E-sun Electronics Ltd, founded in 2014, is an intelligent manufacturing company based in Hong Kong. PantherX series Hotspot is E-sun's competitive product in IoT in the future decade. The engineering team at PantherX consists of seasoned industry veterans from tech, R&D, blockchain, and manufacturing companies such as Canaan and Browan communications. In addition, they have developed many well-known and respected mining equipment such as Avalon.
PantherX is committed to the perfect combination of blockchain technology and the Internet of Things, powering Helium to quickly achieve global network coverage and application launch.
● What is your approximate price point?
PantherX Light: $399
● Is this Light Hotspot or Full Hotspot?
Light hotspot
● Is this model for indoor, outdoor, or both?
Indoor hotspot
● Detailed hardware designs, including relevant parts.
| Hardware Specification | |
|---|---|
| CPU | ● Quad-core Cortex-A55 up to 1.8GHz |
| Memory | ● LPDDR4 1GB |
| Storage | ● eMMC 8GB |
| LoRa radio | ● External SMA antenna |
| Wi-Fi radio | ● 2.4GHz 1Tx/1Rx 802.11 b/g/n ● Built-in antenna |
| BLE radio | ● 2.4GHz BLE 5.2 ● Built-in antenna |
| Crypto chip | ● Microchip ATECC608 |
| LAN interface | ● RJ45 1Gbps x 1 |
| USB | ● External USB Type-A 2.0 connector (Reserved for future use) |
| LED | ● LED indicator x1 ● Breathing light x1 |
| Power | ● USB Type-c connector ● DC5V 1.5A |
● Evidence of a functioning prototype - photos, videos. Renderings are OK, but physical prototypes are much, much better.
● 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 have developed our maker application.
● What is your expected production and delivery timeline? Photos and videos are welcome.
We are continuing to produce and will steadily increase production capacity.
● Have you shipped anything in the past?
Yes, we have shipped more than 10,000 pcs Panther X1 and more than 60,000 units of Panther X2 gateways.
● Which countries have you previously shipped regulatory FCC or CE-approved products?
We have shipped Panther X1 and Panther X2 in Europe, the USA, Australia, etc.
● Which countries do you plan to ship to?
We will sell PantherX Light Worldwide.
As we have already run our online store and established a perfect agent system, we can easily manage Customer's after-sale demand. We provide a 1-Year Warranty for our devices. European Customers can contact us via email, Discord, Twitter, Telegram, Instagram, and the official website. We also have established Chinese Customer Support provided via WeChat, Discord, and our official website. We plan on providing support and updates for the lifetime of the product. In addition, PantherX will provide worldwide support and replacements or reverse logistics through our distribution network.
With the experience that we have established with the Panther X1 and X2 products, we can extend our support to more customers worldwide. The most important for PantherX Customer Support is to make every customer happy with their experience with PantherX Products.
We have a team to provide customers with comprehensive pre-sales consultation and after-sales service. The customer service center includes the pre-sale consulting, technical, and product maintenance departments. The technical service department is responsible for solving technical problems that may arise, while the after-sales services focus on reporting, processing, and fixing the technical issues raised by customers. The product maintenance department is responsible for product maintenance and order traceability.
We have adopted the ATECC608 security element chip to increase the security of the swarm key.
● Which security (swarm) element are you using?
ATECC608
● Which LoRa chipset are you planning to use in your gateway?(i.e., SX1302/03 & SX1250s or SX1301/08 & SX1255/57)
SX1302&SX1250； SX1303&SX1250
● Where are you sourcing your components from?
Our components are sourced worldwide, both online and offline. In addition, we have established good cooperation with several big suppliers who reserve enough components for us.
● How many radio modules/concentrators can you procure?
There is no limit depending on the market.
● Have you built and delivered radio hardware products before?
Yes
● Have you built gateways before?
Yes
● How many gateways did you make?
We have sold more than 70,000 pcs PantherX gateways in the past.
● If you have not built gateways before, are you using a third-party manufacturer? This is the single largest risk with most hardware ventures. If possible, please provide information about your manufacturing partners and supply chain.
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Foxconn, a high-tech company under Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., was founded in 1974 by Terry Gou who is now its Chairman. The company now boasts over 1.2 million employees and a global fleet of clientele；
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BROWAN COMMUNICATIONS (referred to as 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 focuses on leveraging the wireless technology Know-How accumulated over the years to address the emerging businesses of the Internet of Things. In addition, BROWAN focuses on integrating wireless technology such as WiFi, BLE, LTE, and LoRa.
We submitted this information to DeWi via email in July.
● How many of these are you hoping to make and sell?
We have sufficient funding support to produce the hardware in large volumes. Therefore, we aim to build at least 20000 pcs every month.
● How much money will be required up-front?
$1500,000
● How much money do you have on hand?
More than $2,000,000
● and how much do you have access to?
$1,000,000
● 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.
Our inventory sales can bring us more cash flow.
Sourcing components continue to be challenging in the current market; several supply chain issues affect the whole industry. There might be possible increased costs of components and shipments.
● Contact info
● Twitter profile
https://twitter.com/PantherMiner
● Other social profiles
https://medium.com/@PantherMiner
https://www.instagram.com/panther.miner/
● Website
● We support Coinbase and Coinpayment platforms for order placement;
Supported tokens: ERC20-USDC, BSC-BUSD, ERC20-USDT and TRC20-USDT.
● Regions covered/shipped to
Worldwide