The Things Conference 2018
2018-02-01..2018-02-03
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Opening | The Things Network | 02m |
Claims that The Things Network runs an open LoRaWAN community with 30,000 developers, processes 4 million messages a day, and operates 2,500 gateways across… | ||
| Aftermovie | 02m | |
Aftermovie documents conference scale and vibe more than tech detail it shows 500 people turning up and an energized crowd around hands-on LoRaWAN demos with… | ||
| Inventor of LoRa talks about the future of LoRa | Nicolas Sornin | 33m |
Claims concrete experiments and code: indoor picocell tests push 1 million packets per 0.16 km² with 96% packet success using eight femtocells, showing huge… | ||
| Inventor of LoRa | Nicolas Sornin | 10m |
Inventor of LoRa describes building a GPS-inspired low‑power long‑range radio, selling chips through sim tech after the startup exit, and moving proofs into… | ||
| LoRa Geolocation | Richard Lansdowne | 28m |
A collaborative location service called colos combines LoRaWAN gateway received signal strength with Wi‑Fi lookups and GNSS and publishes “recipes” that push… | ||
| TTN Mapper | JP Meijers | 24m |
A crowd-sourced coverage map for The Things Network that actually shows what was built and how well it works: a LAMP/Python backend ingests packets via HTTP… | ||
| Building the Network: Why, How and What's Next | Johan Stokking | 55m |
A concrete roadmap and a working platform: a community-deployed network with 2,600 gateways and handling 4 million messages per day, a new single-binary V3… | ||
| Breaking down the Hype | Wienke Giezeman | 17m |
Claim: a global community runs 4 million messages a day over 2,500 gateways in 60+ countries and grows 30,000 developers. Examples: flood‑level sensors in… | ||
| LoRaWAN From Space | Thomas Telkamp | 30m |
A cubesat LoRaWAN gateway built from commercial RF front ends, an FPGA and an MCU modem is presented, with hardware and field tests including high-altitude… | ||
| LoRa Geolocation | Richard Lansdowne | 13m |
Claims a working collaborative location platform for LoRa geolocation, already launched on the TTN community network and running in private preview. It… | ||
| The Things Network – Johan Stokking | Johan Stokking | 14m |
A community-built LoRaWAN stack moves from a hacky v0 to a distributed v3 that supports three device classes, runs as one program for local development instead… | ||
| Protecting Wildlife with LoRaWAN | Tim Van Dam | 30m |
LoRaWAN sensors and solar-powered gateways are used to track rhinos and other wildlife, sending GPS fixes roughly every 7 minutes and triggering camera or… | ||
| Firmware Updates Over The Air | Jan Jongboom | 25m |
Claims that LoRaWAN can do secure over‑the‑air firmware upgrades using multicast + fragmentation with LDPC-style FEC, a reference implementation by arm and The… | ||
| Lacuna Space | Rob Spurrett | 12m |
Plans a demonstration flight in August to prove direct-to-satellite LoRa from off‑the‑shelf sensors with only minor firmware changes, after balloon and… | ||
| The Things Network – Wienke Giezeman | Wienke Giezeman | 15m |
Project is 2.5 years old and claims to be moving past hype into real deployments but still lacks enough low-power, long-battery, low-cost sensor products… | ||
| Commercialize your Product | Geoff Mulligan, Derek Hunt, Gertjan Strietman, Charles Paumelle, Hardy Schmidbauer, Dan Quant, Han de Glint | 52m |
LoRa deployment details and hard numbers decide. Alliance now lists 537 members and module makers report certified parts for 868 and 915 bands. Real projects… | ||
| LPWAN endpoints will need energy harvesting to achieve scale | Geoffroy Gosset | 19m |
Claim: LPWAN deployments hit scale only if endpoints adopt energy harvesting. Cites 2 billion devices by 2025 and computes ~600 million batteries per year to… | ||
| ARM mbed | Jan Jongboom | 13m |
Claims that ARM is shipping a microcontroller-focused stack for LoRaWAN with tiny RAM footprints and added silicon security, cites 99% of all smartphones use… | ||
| LoRa Alliance | Geoff Mulligan | 14m |
LoRa Alliance reports concrete progress: 57 open networks and 537 members worldwide, a certification program for interoperable devices, and LoRaWAN 1.1 adds… | ||
| Scaling companies with IoT products people want | Stephen Marcus | 26m |
Claims ten practical keys: start with a paying customer not hardware, prefer nearby referenceable customers, aim for deep integration and recurring services… | ||
| Payload formats for LPWAN Applications | Eric Ptak | 25m |
Compares concrete payloads and sizes: JSON is human readable but bloats bytes, a CSV example hits ~20 bytes, a compact raw binary fridge sensor frame uses ~5… | ||
| myDevices | Eric Ptak | 09m |
myDevices describes a working platform not a vision claiming ~200 supported devices on Cayenne and a new payload format KN MPP v2 for LoRaWAN. it ships an IoT… | ||
| LoRaWAN Modules Analysis | Jose Gabriel Marcelino | 27m |
Survey of actual modules reports 40 modules, 22 certified and picks eight concrete examples, noting cheap Chinese boards often have poor RF and lost range… | ||
| Provision, manage & monitor gateways in production with Resin.io | Tim Perry | 27m |
Shows exact workflow and tools: create a single resinOS image, pre-generate device IDs and flash SD cards, then push code to a cloud Docker builder that… | ||
| The journey from one unit to millions | Jonathan Pearce | 27m |
A concrete account of scaling LoRaWAN devices: a journey from a handful to couple hundred then couple thousand toward millions, starting with a stable RN2483… | ||
| Microchip | Jonathan Pearce | 10m |
Microchip commits to LoRa as a product line and claims a practical path to scale from one to a million, citing the Things Network kick‑start gateway as a real… | ||
| From Sheep to Freezers | Jonathan Kaye | 27m |
Describes real deployments: sheep collars with GPS BLE NFC six‑axis sensors and 1 year battery life on private LoRaWAN networks via TTN; farm action monitors… | ||
| Murata | Samir Hennaoui | 08m |
Murata offers a tiny stand‑alone LoRa connectivity module with an open MCU and wideband radio claimed to cover all bands via the S6 1276 wideband support. The… | ||
| ISM Bands vs Cellular IoT inside LPWA | Samir Hennaoui | 22m |
Compares Sigfox (very low data, uplink focused) and LoRa (uplink/downlink, geolocation, private networks) against cellular LPWA: NB‑IoT and LTE Cat‑M1. Claims… | ||
| Open Source Hardware Development | Sven Erik Haitjema | 31m |
An open-hardware LoRa gateway (PCB, firmware, and case files on GitHub) is presented that supports solar power, external antennas, and modular radio cards so… | ||
| TWTG | Sven Erik Haitjema | 10m |
The Things Network hardware called TWTG claims production of more than 1,000 gateways and a user setup time of 5 minutes, with deployments including a live… | ||
| From Semtech reference design to RF fine-tuned product | Olivier Prevost | 24m |
Shows how a Semtech reference design becomes a tuned product by chaining simulation, PCB layout, measurement and iterative tuning; uses basic Smith‑chart… | ||
| Practical Signal Decomposition via Software Defined Radio | Matt Knight | 34m |
Software-defined radio is shown as a practical toolset: RTL‑SDR ≈ $20 for 433/868/915 MHz captures, USRP and Bottlenose for live spectrograms, and GNU Radio +… | ||
| Bastille | Matt Knight | 10m |
Presents concrete prototype hardware that communicates with commodity radio devices using software-defined radio (SDR) plus custom PCBs, and lists the tools… | ||
| LoRa Broadcast from Low Orbit Satellite | Thomas Telkamp | 30m |
Demonstrates broadcasting LoRa messages from a low‑Earth orbit satellite (XLiI) that are received by simple, commodity ground setups including Raspberry Pi +… | ||
| Getting started with Murata's LoRa Module | Samir Hennaoui | 24m |
Murata ships a compact LoRa module that comes with a matching footprint for drop‑in replacements, an available SDK and provisioning workflow, and on‑module… | ||
| Pre-certification tests of LoRaWAN devices | Kyungbae Park | 25m |
Lists concrete pre‑cert checks — test mode 1 and test mode 5, specific test items (notably items 3 and 4), RF/performance measurements and downlink behavior… | ||
| Implementing a third layer of security (do we need it?) | Jan Willem Smeenk | 30m |
Argues for a concrete third layer: device-to-server end-to-end encryption using public/private key exchange, with private keys kept in a hardware ATECC508… | ||
| SODAQ | Jan Willem Smeenk | 14m |
Company builds LoRa IoT hardware since 2013 with a team of 12 and ships development boards and turnkey systems: a matchbox GPS tracker sent to hundreds via… | ||
| The Challenge of LoRaWAN Antennas | Fabien Ferrero | 31m |
Title claims that antenna choice makes or breaks LoRaWAN devices; concrete examples show a quarter‑wave with an unbalanced coax current collapses link budget… | ||
| Safecast: The power of Citizen Science | Pieter Franken | 39m |
safecast claims rapid citizen response after Fukushima: volunteers build a working bento geiger in six days, scale to thousands of kits and fixed nodes, and… | ||
| Going to Mass Production of smart mouse traps | Maarten Crezee | 19m |
A wireless baited snap trap is engineered to fit standard bait boxes with onboard LoRa comms, PCB plus dual antennas, epoxy-potted electronics for IP rating… | ||
| Implementing a Localization-Dependent Application | Maarten Weyn | 21m |
A prototype localization system combines LoRaWAN, GPS, Wi‑Fi fingerprinting and time‑of‑arrival measurements tested in the field. The talk gives concrete… | ||
| Building serverless end-to-end LoRaWAN solutions | Sander van de Graaf | 35m |
Live demo shows an end-to-end LoRaWAN pipeline: The Things Network HTTP integration -> API Gateway -> three AWS Lambda functions -> DynamoDB and S3, deployed… | ||
| Overview of the Open Source IoT Ecosystem | Benjamin Cabé | 28m |
Argues that open source wins by showing concrete code and deployments not vague principles and names about Eclipse Paho as the MQTT reference implementation… | ||
| Large-scale LoRa deployment at | Olga Willner | 21m |
A nationwide rollout monitors 5,000 station clocks over LoRaWAN with magnet, light, glass‑break, temperature/humidity and power‑outage sensors and sends… | ||
| Combat drug smuggling with LoRaWAN | Robin Puthli | 25m |
Claims a reusable LoRaWAN sensor-seal that separates lock from seal and uses on-device cryptography plus Bluetooth Low Energy actuation to force real… | ||
| Daniël, NO you can't! | Lasse Licht | 19m |
Build claim: a LoRaWAN edge device that reads a Vdirect serial port on Victor charge controllers, ships as 269 units in 90 days, and feeds an Influx… | ||
| Precision Irrigation for Vineyards | Reinier van der Lee | 31m |
System measures soil water potential that correlates with plant stress, uses cheap custom probes aiming for a $15 sensor target, and vertical arrays… | ||
| How ecosystems plus LoRaWAN disrupt traditional business | Leo Putz | 27m |
Claims that building automation yields 40–50 million datapoints per office building per year, uses LoRaWAN via TTN and Swisscom gateways and ships hundreds of… | ||
| speak about drones in LoRaWAN | Luka Mustafa | 36m |
Drone‑assisted LoRaWAN deployment and coverage mapping in remote areas produces actionable results: a Raspberry Pi Zero W camera records ~20 hours of footage… | ||
| Lessons learned through real world deployments | Reinhard Bischoff | 27m |
Company deploys real-world LoRa systems and reports concrete outcomes: 300 sensors rolled out across Switzerland, the densest national CO2 network, sending ~30… | ||
| Deploying LoRa in Healthcare | Inou Heideman, Jaap Wansink | 25m |
Claims a working noninvasive water-usage monitor that detects flow by temperature-differential flow sensor data and raises alerts on anomalous daily patterns… | ||
| An Academic Perspective on LoRaWAN | Fernando Kuipers | 34m |
Academic measurements quantify LoRaWAN limits and propose fixes: experiments find a ~38 km/h Doppler threshold for SF12 that breaks reception, city/forest… | ||
| @aallan | Alasdair Allan | 14m |
Describes moving large distributed sensor deployments from XBees and cellular toward Laura but finds hardware still a bit shaky for agricultural fields… | ||
| Where IoT is the intersection between civic and government tech. | Gale Brewer | 20m |
Manhattan builds a borough-scale IoT stack: world's largest legally mandated open data portal created by a 2012 law, a local dashboard called BoardStat mapped… | ||
| Integrating TTN with Watson IoT Platform | Tanmoy Dutta | 27m |
Proof‑of‑concept forwards LoRa/TTN messages into Watson IOT Platform via a Node-RED adapter that authenticates as a logical gateway, auto‑registers devices… | ||
| Realizing the potential of IoT using TTN & Azure | Valery Jacobs | 26m |
Built an npm package that bridges TTN to Azure IoT Hub and a workshop that repeatedly produces live gateways, proving the integration works in the wild. Shows… | ||
| Implementing IoT with Software-Defined Radio | Danny Webster | 24m |
Software-defined radio is practical not theoretical: a low-cost SDR plus modest CPU (Raspberry Pi Zero for simple links, an i7 or cloud for video/4G) runs… | ||
| Teaching a new dog old tricks | Alasdair Allan | 28m |
Starts with concrete history — the ARPANET login attempt and the OSI vs TCP/IP fight — then gives hard numbers: 39,000 bulletin boards and ~2 million Fidonet… | ||
| Interview – Fabio Violante | Fabio Violante | 12m |
Arduino launches a low‑power LoRaWAN node called MR K 1 sold around €30, with on‑board crypto chips and a compact form factor meant to be pre‑certified for… | ||
| Interview – Job Nijenhuis | Job Nijenhuis | 08m |
Job Nijenhuis member of the development team at Dimo Systems.
Dimo Systems developed the connected mouse trap, that you might already have heard about.
In… | ||
| Interview – Max de Groot | Max de Groot | 10m |
WISeKey claims an end-to-end device identity stack: a tamper-resistant chip plus backend certificate lifecycle management that integrates with IoT and LoRa… | ||
| managed PKI solution offers additional security for LoRaWAN | Max de Groot | 15m |
A concrete claim: pairing a hardware secure element (soldered to the PCB, TRNG, AES and ECC inside, tamper resets) with a cloud managed PKI (root of trust… | ||
| Air Quality Measurements Using Cheap Sensors | Joost Wesseling | 26m |
Low-cost particulate sensors (from €15 chips to ~€700 units) can reliably detect large pollution spikes from fireworks — peaks around 2000 µg/m3, roughly 17–25… | ||
| Diana Wildschut - Measure Your City | Diana Wildschut | 19m |
A project builds a neighborhood-scale sensor network using low-cost DIY hardware to measure temperature, humidity, particulates, light, and power consumption… | ||
| Flood monitoring using | Ben Ward | 23m |
Community-deployed LoRaWAN sensors feed live level data into flood.network and a public map so thresholds and hydrographs are visible in real time. Hardware… | ||
| Taming the Complexity | Guido Burger | 36m |
Claims that a complex environmental sensor can be live on The Things Network in minutes using a visual Arduino plugin and snap‑together hardware. Uses an… | ||
| Community Building, behind the scenes | Laurens Slats | 19m |
The project claims concrete scale — 30,000 developers across 550 communities in 90 countries sending about 4 million messages per day — and describes the tools… | ||
| Interview – Mark Stanley | Mark Stanley | 08m |
Community-run LoRaWAN in Reading starts November 2015 and now runs 12 gateways with council funding adding about 40 more gateways regionwide. Projects include… | ||
| Empowering communities to make a smarter, more connected world | Claire Garside | 33m |
Foundation funds and programs teach communities to build and run real IoT projects not sell consultancy: kids assemble telemetry on school kart cars and… | ||
| Interview – Alex Raimondi | Alex Raimondi | 09m |
A company presents a proof-of-concept LoRa/LoRaWAN remote-control link that runs on an MCU/LoRa chipset and a real-time control workaround to fly hobby and FPV… | ||
| interview | Derek Wallace | 08m |
Multitech presents concrete hardware: mDot and xDot end nodes with processors and ARM Mbed support, plus indoor/outdoor commercial gateways. A live workshop… | ||
| The Things Conference - World's largest LoRaWAN Developer Conference | 01m | |
This is a conference promo that mainly markets a two-day event rather than giving technical results: it claims two thousand LoRaWAN developers, promises… | ||
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