The best Bluetooth hubs and gateways for remote access to BLE devices: SwitchBot Hub 2, Hub Mini and Hub 3, Shelly BLU Gateway and Gen3 relays, Govee and SensorPush gateways, Tuya multi-mode gateway, plus ESP32 boards and USB adapters for Home Assistant Bluetooth proxies.
The best Bluetooth (BLE) temperature and humidity sensors: Govee H5075, H5074, H5100 and H5110, SwitchBot Meter Plus, Outdoor Meter and Meter Pro, TempPro TempAir, Shelly BLU H&T, SensorPush HT.w, Inkbird IBS-TH2 and Elitech GSP-6, compared by display, range, logging and Home Assistant support.
The best development boards for building Matter and Thread devices: Seeed XIAO ESP32C6, Arduino Nano Matter, Waveshare and M5Stack ESP32-C6 boards, ESP32-H2 boards, XIAO MG24, Nordic nRF52840 DK and nRF54L15-DK, and nRF52840 dongles, compared by radio, SDK and use case.
The best industrial 4G and 5G routers for IoT deployments: Teltonika RUT956, RUT241, RUTX11 and RUTM50, GL.iNet Spitz, Spitz Plus, Spitz AX, Puli and Collie, InHand IR302, Sierra Wireless AirLink RV50 and RV55, LINOVISION, Yeacomm and LINBLENET routers with RS485, dual SIM and VPN.
The best mini PCIe and M.2 cellular modem cards for routers, gateways and Raspberry Pi carriers: SIMCom SIM7600G-H PCIe and M.2, Quectel EG25-G, EM05-G, EM060K-GL, EM06-E and RM520N-GL 5G, Sierra Wireless EM7455 and EM7565, and Fibocom FM350-GL 5G, compared by speed, form factor and region.
The best 4G LTE antennas for cellular modems, routers, Raspberry Pi HATs and ESP32 boards: Bingfu SMA and RP-SMA antennas, Proxicast cross-polarized MIMO panel, eifagur panel and omni, Maswell 5G-ready MIMO, magnetic, adhesive, TS9 and LTE/GPS combo antennas, plus SMA extension cables.
The best 4G USB modems for Raspberry Pi, single-board computers and IoT gateways: Waveshare and Yahboom SIM7600G-H dongles, Quectel EC25 USB dongles, EIOTCLUB, Spectrum Smart, KuWFi and MIRO hotspot sticks, and M.2-to-USB adapters for building your own LTE modem.
The best LTE-M and NB-IoT modules for low-power cellular IoT: Waveshare SIM7000G HAT, Nordic nRF9151-SMA-DK, LILYGO T-SIM7000G, Botletics SIM7000 shield, Quectel BG95-M3 boards and dongle, SIM7080G Pico module, SIM7028 NB-IoT HATs, BC95 board and bare SIM7080G/SIM7070G modules.
The best 4G LTE HATs for Raspberry Pi: Waveshare SIM7600G-H HAT, Sixfab cellular modem kit, SIM7670G Cat-1 and EM060K Cat-6 HATs, SIM7080G and SIM7070G NB-IoT HATs, Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe-to-M.2 and MiniPCIe HATs, mini PCIe base HATs, A7670E, SIM7028 and 2G GSM HATs, compared by speed and use case.
The best ESP32 cellular development boards: LILYGO T-SIM7000G, T-SIM7600G-H, T-SIM7080G-S3, T-A7670G, T-SIM7670G-S3, T-SIM7600G-S3, T-SIM7000G-S3, T-PCIE with swappable modems, T-SIMCAM, T-ETH-Elite LTE shield and T-Call SIM800L, compared by LTE category, power and use case.