IoT NY #28: A Decentralized, Open IoT- The Things Network

The Things Network is a recent example of a decentralized, community-owned and built IoT data network. We're fortunate to have their Amsterdam-based founding team join us.

The technology uses LoRaWAN and allows for things to connect to the internet through low-cost gateways that can connect up to 10.000 devices in a radius of 5km. It features low battery usage, long range, and low bandwidth, so is a great fit for sensor data.

Their manifesto (https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/Manifest) states that the network is open. Any work created in the community will be open sourced. The Things Network is set up in a decentralized way to not have any single point of control or failure. Nothing is centralized or owned by the founders.

The Things Network started only 6 months ago and is already active in more than 50 cities around the world.

For more info, please see thethingsnetwork.org (http://www.thethingsnetwork.org/) or read about the complete story here (http://medium.com/@wienke/the-things-network-building-a-global-iot-data-network-in-6-months-adc2c0b1ae9b).

Agenda
7:00pm - Event opens, networking
7:15pm - Announcements, topic & speaker intro by Linda Drabik
7:30pm - Introduction of The Things Network by Wienke Giezeman
8:00pm - Workshop for creating a LoRaWAN use case by Johan Stokking
8:30pm - Time to play around with LoRaWAN