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The example most people use are farms. The problem often isn't range, it's power consumption. The soil moisture sensor or the cow health tracker a mile away needs to run on batteries for a long time.
Unless you need high data rates, LoRa would be a better option instead of wifi. Especially if you need a new chipset anyway.
Also, on range alone, people are pushing LoRa to insane distances: https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/new-lora-distance-record-830-miles/
Yea, for simple sensors and switches, LoRa seems to be the solution.
This looks good for video, since it has wifi bandwidth capability.
If course then you'll need a real battery (NiMH?) and some solar. But if the power consumption is good, that won't be too bad.