The Things Conference 2020: Technical Keynote

The Things Stack, Peering and
Roadmap
Johan Stokking – @johanstokking
CTO, The Things Industries
Tech Lead, The Things Network

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Agenda
1. The Things Stack and The Things Enterprise Stack
2. Building secure solutions
3. Roaming and peering with Packet Broker
4. Upgrading the community network to V3

The Things Industries
The Things Stack

The Things Stack for LoRaWAN V3

All LoRaWAN versions and regions
MQTT, webhooks and pub/sub integrations
Per-device MAC conﬁguration
Packet Broker enabled
Multi-tenant and multi-instance
Device claiming
HSM support for Join Server
IoT platform, SSO and billing integrations
Features

Distribution and support
Open source:
• Build from source
• Download precompiled binaries
• Pull Docker images
• Install via package managers
Community support
The Things Industries offers:
• Cloud Hosted
• Dedicated Cloud Hosted
• Cloud Marketplace Launchers
• Self Hosted
Commercial support

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Roadmap
Q1: Beta LoRaWAN 1.0.4
support
Q1: LoRa over satellite
and LoRa 2.4 GHz
support
Q1: Class B support
Q2: TTI Cloud Hosted
available with SLA
Q2: FOTA manifest and
update service
Q2: QR code
scanning app
Q3: Device repository with
proﬁles and benchmarks
Q3: Application-layer
integrations with
AWS IoT and Azure IoT
2019

Device repository
How many gateways do I need?
What will my link quality be?
What is the impact of adaptive data rate on
my device’s battery life?
What is the channel utilization and
downlink capacity?
What does placing extra gateways add to
the device population cost?
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Device repository
Open source,
collaborative
repository with
empirical
performance
assessments for live
benchmarking
How many gateways do I need?
What will my link quality be?
What is the impact of adaptive data rate on
my device’s battery life?
What is the channel utilization and
downlink capacity?
What does placing extra gateways add to
the device population cost?

Building Secure Solutions

Security in LoRaWAN
Secure boot
Firmware update
veriﬁcation
LoRaWAN
root key storage
LoRaWAN
cryptographic
operations

Requirements
Decouple trust relation between: Work at scale
Small
Cheap
Low power consumption
Transfer of ownership
• Device makers
• Contract manufacturers
• Distributors
• Networks
• Applications and IoT platforms
• Device owners

Device claiming & personalization

Roaming and Peering
My favorite topic

Why exchanging traffic?
1. Better indoor and outdoor coverage
2. Better resilience against gateway failures
3. More network capacity
4. Longer battery life

Why not use LoRaWAN roaming?

Introducing Packet Broker
Global backbone for LoRaWAN trafﬁc
Supporting uplink, class A and C downlink, and
device activations
Open source API
Available as hosted solution and on-premises
https://github.com/packetbroker

Introducing Packet Broker
Key features:
1. Individual packet selection
2. Separating trafﬁc routing from billing and
clearing
3. Separating payload from metadata
4. No need to operate a LoRaWAN network

How does it work?
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How does it work?
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How does it work?
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How does it work?

How does it work?
🔐 Forwarder
🔐 Home
Network

How does it work?
🔐 Forwarder

How does it work?
🔐 Home
Network

Routing policies
Packet Broker Forwarders (with gateways) can set
routing policies for each Home Network (with devices)
Uplink
• Join-requests
• MAC payload
• Application payload
• Signal Quality
• Localization
Downlink
• Join-accepts
• MAC payload
• Application payload

Separating routing from clearing and billing

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Join Packet Broker
1. Obtain a NetID via LoRa Alliance membership
2. Use a supported LNS
1. The Things Stack, The Things Enterprise Stack
2. Via LoRaWAN Passive Roaming
3. Ask your LNS vendor to implement Packet Broker API
3. Generate certiﬁcate signing requests (CSR) for your network instances
4. Get in touch via join@packetbroker.org

Upgrade The Things Network
to The Things Stack V3

connected to V3 Gateway Server
Most community gateways are already

connected to V3 Gateway Server
Most community gateways are already
and feeding data into Packet Broker
❤

Roadmap
Q1: Replace V2 Bridge
with V3 Gateway Server
Q2: Deploy Packet Broker
Agent for V2
Q2: Deploy V3 public
Community network with
migrated users and applications
Q3: Enable migrating
Devices from V2 to V3
Shutdown V2 PCN
2019

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