Helium Is A Better Way To Build Wireless Infrastructure The People’s Network is the world’s first peer-to-peer wireless network that provides a secure and cost-effective way for low-power Internet of Things devices to send data to and from the Internet. Helium Systems Inc. began 2013 and is based in San Francisco, CA. It was created after realizing that the exponentially growing Internet of Things (IOT) market needed a simple solution to the need for the IOT hardware devices to transmit their data to the internet to be used by smart applications.