I second Althea and agree that Helium, at $495 per device, is much too expensive and the production of the device I believe is centralized. Although ironically the cost to build a backhaul with Althea can also be quite expensive, but at least it is device independent.
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You can run an althea node with a cheap $15 chinese router. Minimum requirements are 128mb ram and 16mb storage.
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