[H1Supreme]

What does the data collection end of this look like? In a home IOT setup, for example, you'd typically have a single machine (Border Router in a Thread setup) collecting all the data from each node.

I understand the "field device" -> "satellite" uplink step. But, what's the next step? Another device just for downlink data would eat through the data cap in no time.

[initplus]

Downlink is internal to the sat provider, and will just send messages on to you over the ordinary internet.

[googlryas]

You get a REST API to to query to get your data.

Eg GET api.swarm.space/devices/$id/recent

[jcims]

Looks like they have a SaaS product called Hive to poll/push data from devices to your application. I don't see any indication of point to point message passing capability but it may exist.

[ClumsyPilot]

You dont buy a sattelite terminal yourself , they company has their own terminal and will make it avaliable to you over an API