E-sun Electronics Ltd/ Panther X
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 a high-efficiency regular hotspot (Panther X). 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 are submitting a new proposal for the Panther X2 hotspot（SX1308 version）.
E-sun Electronics Ltd, founded in 2014, is an intelligent manufacturing company based in Hong Kong. Panther X series Hotspot is E-sun's competitive product in the domain of IoT in the future decade. The engineering team at Panther X 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.
Panther X is committed to the perfect combination of blockchain technology and the Internet of Things, powering Helium to achieve global network coverage and application launch quickly.
● Which security (swarm) element are you using?
Panther X2（1308 version）: $599
● Is this is Light Hotspot or Full Hotspot?
Full 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 | ●DDR 4GB |
| Storage | ●eMMC 32GB+ TF Card 64GB |
| 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 |
| TF | ●External TF card slot ●Supports SDXC or higher speed |
| USB | ●External USB-A 2.0 connector ●Reserved for future use |
| LEDs | ●Single-colored LED indicator (green) x 4 -Power -Status -Network -Bluetooth |
| Button | ●Push-button (GPIO) |
| Environment | ●Temp. operating -10°C ~ +40°C ambient ●Storage -20°C ~ +70°C ambient ●Humidity operating 5%RH ~ 95%RH (non-condensed relative humidity) ●Altitude operating 0 ~ 3000 Meters |
| IP ratings | ●IP42 (plastic enclosure) |
| Power | ●DC jack ●DC12V 1~1.5A |
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 own maker application.
What is your expected production and delivery timeline? Photos and videos 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 40,000 pcs 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, USA, Australia etc.
Panther X1(With CE certificate)
Panther X2(with FCC, CE, RCM and EAC Certificate)
● Which countries do you plan to ship to?
We will sell Panther X2(1308 version) in Europe.
As we already ran our online store and established a perfect agent system, we can easily manage Customer's after-sale demand. We provide a 2-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 that is provided via WeChat, Discord and our official website. We plan on providing support and updates for the lifetime of the product. In addition, Panther will provide worldwide support and replacements or reverse logistics through our distribution network.
With the experience that we have established with the Panther X1 product, we can extend our support to more customers worldwide. The most important for Panther X Customer Support is to make every customer happy with their experience with Panther X Products.
We have a team to provide customers with comprehensive pre-sales consultation and after-sales service. The customer service centre includes the pre-sale consulting department, technical service department, and product maintenance department. 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 ATEECC608 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)
SX1308&SX1257
● Where are you sourcing your components from?
Our components are sourced from all over the world, 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 50,000 pcs Panther X 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.
BROWAN COMMUNICATIONS (referred to as Browan) is an essential partner of E-sun, responsible for the mass production of Panther X.
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 focus 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 have 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.
Our customer orders are growing fast. We are expanding our assembly line per the demand growth. We firmly believe that the most significant risk may come from the shortage of related chips and various components. Therefore, enhancing and expanding our supply chain is the most crucial task in our industries.
The main risks and challenges are the supply of the components and assembly of the associated electronics, and the reliability of the shipping networks.
Fortunately, the manufacturer we are working with has successfully used it many times before, and we know and trust they can deliver to schedule. As an established and busy e-commerce business, Panther X can easily handle the shipping burden of this project and have all the frameworks in place to achieve this quickly and efficiently. Whilst delays do unfortunately sometimes occur with shipping networks, these are relatively infrequent, and we will do our best to mitigate these at the time of shipping. We will be using well-known shipping companies for our shipping, and the shipping is fully insured and tracked around Mainland China and European Regions.
● Contact info
● Twitter profile
https://twitter.com/PantherMiner
● Other social profiles
https://medium.com/@PantherMiner
https://www.instagram.com/panther.miner/
● Website
panther.global
● 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