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World's first NB-IoT Arduino Shield

Hardware — Affordable, versatile, usable: NB-IoT for everyone [Hardware, Internet of Things, Tech]
Hardwareest. 2017
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 30.4 · 1/4
30.4
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+22.4
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 18 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+22.4). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 28% of 18 probesavg response 1117 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
kickstarter.com
edge
behind Cloudflare
server
cloudflare
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

World's first NB-IoT Arduino Shield's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
ARDUINO MKRZEROhardwaresimilar100%49.60.0● live
Thingsee Onehardwaresimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Movidiushardwaresimilar100%19.30.0→ redirected
LD-AIR LiDARhardwaresimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Movidius Neural Compute Stickhardwaresimilar100%19.30.0→ redirected
My pockethardwaresimilar100%— unverified
Raspberry Pi 5hardwaresimilar100%39.9+22.4● live
Raspberry Pi Zero Wirelesshardwaresimilar80%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:05Z200kickstarter.comcloudflare1300alive
2026-08-17 13:47Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare782cf_block
2026-08-10 00:12Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare2612cf_block
2026-08-08 04:47Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare287cf_block
2026-07-31 15:45Z200kickstarter.comcloudflare2229alive
2026-07-26 17:39Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare645cf_block
2026-07-18 14:22Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare1387cf_block
2026-07-14 09:13Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare1408cf_block
2026-07-04 16:18Z200kickstarter.comcloudflare2031alive
2026-07-03 00:56Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare434cf_block
2026-06-24 13:53Z200kickstarter.comcloudflare1346alive
2026-06-23 13:04Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare739cf_block
2026-06-21 21:23Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare152cf_block
2026-06-20 19:28Z403kickstarter.comcloudflare284cf_block
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · World's first NB-IoT Arduino Shield · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/world-s-first-nb-iot-arduino-shield · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.