Roman Staszewski
TTN Community Manager
Laurens slats
INTERNET OF THINGS
INTERNET OF THINGS WAS BORN
2008 / 2009
DEVICES > HUMANS
INTERNET OF HUMANS VS. THINGS
Humans vs. Things
?
INTERNET OF HUMANS VS. THINGS
Humans vs. Things
INTERNET OF HUMANS VS. THINGS
Humans vs. Things
LoRa Trade-offs
LoRaWAN Secure End-to-End
Nodes Simple sensor
devices for collecting
data/performing actions
Gateways: Connect Nodes
to The Things Network
Backend
The Things
Network Backend
routes
messages and
manages devices
Long range: 6 mi rural / 1 mi urban
Connect up to 10,000 devices
Low power
Low cost
LoRa Gateways
Gateways
Sensor Devices
AMSTERDAMAmsterdam
Whole city covered with
less than 10 gateways,
less than €10,000,
and in only 4 weeks
Wienke Giezeman
TTN co-founder
 Users are owners, not telcos
 Bottom-up development
 Bring minds together
 Boost IoT innovation
Idea arose
WHAT IF...
More than 10
companies in
Amserdam’s initial
campaign
The first TTN use case
Launch event in Amsterdam
BUILDING A GLOBAL NETWORK
over 350 cities in 70 countries
over 800 active gateways
since September 2015
Meeting in Buenos Airies
Sticker in Germany
Faceboook page from Argentina
How the word about TTN spreads…
Facebook page from Brazil Meetup page
Website in London
KICKSTARTER
About to ship 1500 gateways
all over the world
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/419277966/the-things-network
Low cost TTN gateway
shipping Dec 2016
Smart mouse trap
Idea arose
WHAT IF...
STARTS TO GET SERIOUS
STARTS TO GET SERIOUS
WE’RE BUILDING THIS THING TOGETHER!
CONNECT
GATEWAYS
CONTRIBUTE
OSS
BUILD
COMMUNITIES
SHARE!
JOIN US!
UNLEASH THE INTERNET OF THINGS
www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/dallas
roman@zenseio.com
@RomanStaszewski
YOU ARE THE NETWORK
LET’S BUILD THIS THING TOGETHER!

The Things Network Dallas kickoff presentation 2016/08/11