The Things Network

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The The Things Network ( TTN ) is a community-based initiative to establish an energy-saving wide-area network, as for the Internet of Things . The initiative was launched in 2015 by the two Dutch Wienke Giezeman and Johan Stokking and covered in February 2020, around 19,000 installed LoRaWAN - Gateways in about 150 countries from large areas. Volunteers take on the provision, construction and support of gateways. These transmit long-range radio signals from energy-saving sensors to a control center via the Internet. There the signals (e.g. measurement data, such as from electricity or water meters) are processed further and forwarded to defined recipients. There is AES-128 end-to-end encryption , which increases data security.

In this way, Amsterdam has succeeded in covering large parts of the city in less than six weeks. Most of the Netherlands are already supplied with TTN. The same applies to Zurich , Bern and Berlin . In Berlin it took around 17 months to provide around 1,500,000 people with LoRaWAN access with currently 175 registered gateways. In February 2020 around 99,000 volunteers around the world were involved in setting up the world's largest networked “Internet of Things”, in which more than 25 million data records are processed every day.

It has now been successfully tested to provide access via satellites in low earth orbit . The company Lacuna Space is decisive here.

The first conference on the Internet of Things was organized in Amsterdam from February 1-3, 2018. All keynotes given there are available on YouTube . Another conference took place in Amsterdam from January 31 to February 1, 2019. One of these was also held in Amsterdam at the end of January in 2020.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The "LoraWAN" of Amsterdam. ( Memento from November 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Published on zdf.de on November 10, 2017.
  2. ^ Gerhard Peter: TTN Community Berlin. TheThingsNetwork, February 12, 2018, accessed February 12, 2018 .
  3. ^ The Things Conference. TheThingsNetwork, January 15, 2018, accessed February 13, 2018 .