The Things Conference 2019
2019-01-31..2019-02-01
Amsterdam, Netherlands
[The Things Conference 2018, The Things Conference 2019, The Things Conference 2021 Logistics Edition, The Things Conference Agriculture Edition 2021, The Things Conference Embedded Edition 2022, The Things Conference 2024, The Things Conference 2025]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Driving down the total cost of ownership of LoRaWAN deployments | Wienke Giezeman, Johan Stokking | 41m |
Claims concrete outcomes: a preconfigured secure element preprovisioned at Microchip that makes root keys unreadable and enables over‑the‑air session key… | ||
| Extending LoRaWAN's reach | Nicolas Sornin | 30m |
A pre‑certified LoRaWAN modem (Europe + US, LoRaWAN 2.0.3) ships pre-provisioned keys and DevEUI/JoinEUI with a bundled key‑management API, exposes a simple… | ||
| How to build a secure provision workflow | Xavier Bignalet | 31m |
Claims a practical, working supply‑chain solution: Microchip pairs an on‑chip secure element with TTI join‑server HSMs so keys generated inside secure element… | ||
| From LoRaWAN 1.0 to 1.1: Security Enhancements | Renaud Lifchitz | 24m |
A private LoRa test framework reproduces replay, keystream reuse and RNG flaws and finds backend exposures, memory dumps and side channels that extract keys… | ||
| The impossible job of being an IoT expert | Charles Paumelle | 15m |
Claim: no one can be a complete end-to-end IoT expert; success requires assembling many specialists. Evidence: sensors produce tiny 11-byte payloads but… | ||
| LoRaWAN at Hackster.io | Alex Glow | 16m |
Hackster.io reports half a million members and shows concrete pipelines: published projects include code, schematics and a smart linked Bill of Materials that… | ||
| Open Satellite LoRaWAN at Scale | Thomas Telkamp | 27m |
Claim: ordinary sensors use standard LoRaWAN devices to reach space. Implementation: store‑and‑forward LEO satellites ~500 km with ~90‑minute orbits, satellite… | ||
| Firmware Updates over LoRaWAN | Jan Jongboom | 31m |
Concrete implementation notes and results: an open reference implementation for FUOTA specifications on LoRaWAN uses multicast plus LDPC… | ||
| Many LoRaWAN sensors, one Arduino IoT Cloud | Luca Cipriani | 19m |
Claim: Arduino IoT Cloud manages LoRaWan gateways, sensors and nodes from one web interface. It uses an Arduino connector running on gateways… | ||
| Operating gateways using AWS IoT Greengrass | Richard Elberger | 24m |
Claim: AWS IoT Greengrass runs on owned gateways to keep LoRaWAN solutions resilient under TLS 1.2 mutual auth and intermittent links. It brings device shadows… | ||
| Powerful LoRaWAN solutions with Azure IoT | Olivier Bloch | 22m |
Claims that an existing LoRaWAN stack can connect to Azure IoT Central and that gateways can run Azure IoT Edge containers to decode packets localy run ML and… | ||
| Global connectivity for the IoT | Flavia Nardini | 31m |
Claims a global LoRaWAN backhaul by building 100 nanosatellites planned and already launching first 4 satellites launched end of 2018. Implements a combined… | ||
| The evolution of The Things Network to V3 | Johan Stokking | 30m |
Evolves the stack from v2 to a ground‑up v3 with LoRaWAN 1.1 support, a packet broker peering model instead of direct inter‑cluster links, and per‑device radio… | ||
| Closing of the first day | Wienke Giezeman, Johan Stokking, Chris van 't Hof | 05m |
Day one reports concrete results: attendance doubles to 1,500 attendees from ~700 last year, volunteers and logistics handle the crowd without meltdown, and… | ||
| The importance of the Ecosystem to make the IoT a reality | Ana Bernal | 18m |
Claims concrete outcomes: a hardware platform implemented in more than 120 countries that has integrated more than 120 sensors and supports more than 15… | ||
| Energy Harvesting in IoT | Simon van der Jagt | 16m |
Claims a NOWI energy‑harvesting PMIC that boosts tiny inputs starting at 40 millivolts to usable voltages with about 92% efficiency and shrinks required… | ||
| Low Power Wireless Energy Solutions | Klemen Logar | 19m |
A case study of an industrial LoRaWAN deployment: a private network with 3 gateways, 36 comm box L devices and 290 measuring points collects water gas… | ||
| Integrated antennas design for IoT devices | Jordi Balcells | 17m |
Shows an IM880 module integrated antenna workflow from 3D EM simulation through prototyping and chamber measurement and back to retuning. Demonstrates a… | ||
| Discover the possibilities of the XDK Node | Reinier Schmohl | 15m |
Bosch XDK Node ships as a freely programmable sensor box with a LoRa extension, eight onboard sensors and a market of ready-made apps; demonstrations include a… | ||
| Is your LoRaWAN solution long lived? | Vanja Samuelsson | 19m |
Claims that device longevity requires system thinking not just low-power chips, gives concrete numbers and a way to check them: battery life guarantee of 3… | ||
| Development of a Smart Office Solution | Marco van der Pal | 19m |
A deployed LoRaWAN office sensor network built with LoRaWAN gateways, registration and monitoring/alerting portals, and an end-user app that links sensors to… | ||
| Challenges in Scaling of IoT Sensors | Schekeb Fateh | 19m |
Hardware moves from PoC to mass in months so planning beats slogans: a modular building blocks approach reuses modules across sensors and gateways, gateway… | ||
| Simplifying device deployment | Jean-Charles Lesage | 19m |
Claims a working system that keeps LoRaWAN credentials secret while shifting devices from an initial bootstrap to a final operator without on‑line key… | ||
| Level up with LoRa | Dirk Losch | 14m |
Prototype: battery-powered LoRa electronic door plates built from a Raspberry Pi Zero with LoRa HAT and later compact LoRa modules, connected to multiple… | ||
| Asset Condition Monitoring | Romuald Gallorini | 14m |
A flexible LoRaWAN platform for asset condition monitoring that captures vibration and frequency data from analog and digital inputs across varied factory… | ||
| Why Machine Learning on Microcontrollers? | Neil Tan | 19m |
uTensor takes TensorFlow graphs and generates C++ that runs on tiny chips and the demo shows MNIST handwriting and keyword spotting running on a Cortex M4 so… | ||
| Edge Computing and next-gen of IoT Sensors | Alex Raimondi | 16m |
Prototype sensors fuse accelerometer gyro microphone and camera into waterproof battery nodes and run on-device ML models (Octo Nyan rhenium on Cortex-M class… | ||
| Selecting your LoRa IC for your application | David Armour | 17m |
Compares SX127x (first generation, flexible, supports proprietary modes, ~80 million devices shipped) with SX126x (second generation, half the package size… | ||
| Enhanced Security for LoRaWAN devices | Herve Roche, Michel Rolland | 21m |
Description shows a real case of physical attacks on LoRaWAN devices and an implemented countermeasure, claiming side‑channel and electromagnetic leakage let… | ||
| LoRaTLS: Approaching BSI compliances | Christian Zenger, Jan Zimmer | 14m |
LoRa®TLS claims to add BSI‑compliant TLS with Perfect Forward Secrecy over LoRaWAN by inserting a fragmentation and reliability interlayer and reusing standard… | ||
| Designing a LoRaWAN solution for construction | Paul Jones | 13m |
A LoRaWAN telematics product for construction is already rolling out to multiple UK and international sites and claims measurable fuel savings by detecting… | ||
| LoRaWAN Certification process | Derek Hunt | 19m |
Certification workflow requires membership, a questionnaire, selection of an authorized test house and either full testing or certification by similarity when… | ||
| What customers want and how to enable them | Alistair Fulton | 24m |
Claims that LoRaWAN is the connectivity choice for many IoT use cases and that Semtech is building developer enablement to drive ROI backed by numbers: about… | ||
| 5000 pieces in 12 weeks – Yes we do! | Stefan Zimmerman | 17m |
Claims a delivered run of 5000 units in 12 weeks by adapting existing hardware platforms, sourcing available components fast, and running certification, test… | ||
| From Prototype to Commercial | Kinson Chan | 20m |
From Prototype to Commercial and China Market Overview.
Overview on the China market. Explanation of how RAK building block can help makers building their own… | ||
| Commercializing IoT with IoT in a Box | Kevin Bromber | 18m |
Claims a finished, customizable product called IoT in a Box™ that packages gateways, sensors and cloud so partners can sell repeatable solutions; shows a… | ||
| Venture Capital perspective of LoRaWAN | Stephen Berard | 23m |
Momenta Ventures outlines a concrete VC playbook: a connected‑industry fund that buys into vertical wins like Rev2 (asset data → ML for support) and horizontal… | ||
| Cloud Service and Geolocation Update | Richard Lansdowne | 25m |
Semtech describes a cloud service that exposes geolocation as an API and offers a free hybrid geolocation preview that resolves months of packets in hours with… | ||
| Smart Train Stations with LoRaWAN | Olga Willner, Oliver Brandmuller | 31m |
Deutsche Bahn deploys LoRaWAN to monitor and control station assets: 60 station clocks report health and receive OTA updates, LED tubes carry sensors, and a… | ||
| Smart working spaces at WeWork | Alan Jackson, Brian Rosenberg | 18m |
WeWork uses LoRaWAN private network and off‑the‑shelf LPWAN sensors to measure per‑seat occupancy and environmental data without touching corporate networks or… | ||
| Near and under water devices with LoRaWAN | Luka Mustafa | 19m |
IRNAS builds a cheap mooring buoy with electronics that uses LoRaWAN and Lacunae satellite uplinks and proves it sends data from floating sensors. Experiments… | ||
| Wildlife Protection | Laurens de Groot | 24m |
Deployment of LoRaWAN gateways and GPS sensor tags across national parks in Rwanda, Malawi and Namibia to track herds and about 65 rhinos over areas of 100+… | ||
| Looking Back, Moving Forward | Wienke Giezeman, Johan Stokking, Laurens Slats, Chris van 't Hof | 14m |
Organizers describe running a community LoRaWAN conference built on the TTN stack and open-source tools, detailing a functioning local gateway network and… | ||
| IoT driven supply chains | Joris Tenhagen | 10m |
Claims end to end visibility using LoRaWAN and Pharox sensors built into commercial cases, with live indoor/outdoor telemetry for asset tracking, temperature… | ||
| Microclimate Network | Tomaz Suklje | 15m |
An open LoRaWAN sensor network claims ~200 deployed nodes that stream temperature, relative humidity and pressure into a public platform; a DIY-friendly… | ||
| How IoT Contributes to Society | Manuela Krull | 21m |
Describes concrete outcomes: an accelerator that scouts 40 startups worldwide and runs a 3‑month program with ~50 workshops, startups that deliver real‑time… | ||
| From Sensor to Value: A journey | Chris Dipple | 17m |
Sensors arrive noisy, irregular and gap-filled; the work is turning that into usable assets: hourly smoothing and regularization, gap-filling and… | ||
| Design principles for LoRaWAN Nodes | Jeroen Hobbelman, Lucio Di Jasio | 19m |
Four concrete principles: pick quality first and design for longevity security and service, then choose one path for speed or cost. Build a node from four… | ||
| LoRa Geolocation | Titia Houwing, Paul Marcelis | 19m |
LoRa geolocation determines device position using time-difference-of-arrival (TDoA) measured by multiple gateways with nanosecond-accurate timestamps, with the… | ||
| What About Never Having to Use Batteries Again? | Sven Erik Haitjema | 20m |
Claim: IoT devices can often run without batteries by combining solar panel + supercapacitor power module with an energy-aware scheduling runtime that… | ||
| M00vement: Cattle Tracking | Henk Kuipers | 13m |
mOOVement is a Rabobank startup running pilots in Australia that builds working cattle trackers with Sodaq using LoRaWAN hardware. Prototype moves from collar… | ||
| Teralytic's real time soil sensors | Steven Ridder | 15m |
LoRaWAN-connected, meter-long probes measure NPK plus pH, moisture, temperature and gases at 15, 45 and 90 cm and transmit every 15 minutes to a cloud API… | ||
| Disrupting urban innovation with LPWAN | Alex Gluhak | 20m |
Digital Catapult and TTN create a free-to-use LoRaWAN testbed across the UK enabling rapid city pilots: 150 gateways deployed plus ~300 community gateways, 100… | ||
| Developing with the SAMR34/35 | Clayton Pillion | 16m |
SAMR34/35 SiP merges a SAM L21 microcontroller with LoRa radios, one part offering USB. Claims: under 800 nanoamps sleep current, software stack with LoRaWAN… | ||
| Successfully Commercialising LoRaWAN | Ali Miller | 19m |
KoolZone builds a LoRaWan real‑time monitoring system for fridges and freezers and expands to many sensor types, serving customers in 12 countries. Key… | ||
| Building your LoRaWAN business | Paul McManus | 20m |
Claims a viable business built on The Things Network and The Things Industries by selling network builds plus annual maintenance and services, not just… | ||
| LoRa Network planning challenges | Sylvain Aubin | 17m |
Simulation uses a digital‑twin stack (2D/3D/3D‑city) and S_IoT propagation tools to predict coverage cost and device battery impact, comparing macro rooftop… | ||
| Develop with mbed OS | Jan Jongboom | 19m |
Develop with mbed OS.
Learn how to use mbed OS to start and to scale your LoRaWAN project.
To learn more about LoRaWAN and about us you can go to our… | ||
| Air quality sensing | Reinhard Bisschof | 18m |
Claims deployment of 300 low-cost CO2 devices across Switzerland over LoRaWAN forming a country-scale network, plus an aircube with AlphaSense electrochemical… | ||
| LoRaWAN and disaster reduction | Takeo Hiyama | 18m |
City deployment runs a three‑year POC with 20 gateways installed across a mid‑sized Tokyo city and 45 auto gauges on small rivers feeding larger channels… | ||
| Paintable IOT: Scalable sensing | Matt Johnson | 16m |
Claims a printed conductive coating plus modest hardware makes large-area capacitive sensors that reliably detects a single droplet over 2×3 m, sense targets… | ||
| Building The Things Network in Africa using TTN Mapper | JP Meijers | 21m |
Maps actual LoRaWAN coverage in Cape Town and rural Zambia, installs gateways and measures real ranges rather than promising examples, documents 500 m actual… | ||
| Opening Video | The Things Network | 03m |
The opening video lists concrete metrics and deployments: 6,000 active gateways, 60,000 accounts, presence in over 100 countries and five and a half billion… | ||
| After Movie | The Things Network | 01m |
Raw conference footage cuts between demos, launch announcements and crowd shots while claiming a push to rethink security and to scale connectivity with… | ||
| Creativity is contagious | Sander Arts | 29m |
Stories list specific tactics and outcomes: an Arduino-driven maker funnel that registers 27 million Arduino users and an IDE download every 2.5 seconds… | ||
| Interview with Andre Legendre | Andre Legendre | 05m |
A company pairs LoRaWAN with a specialized blockchain that claims low TCO, low latency and an authorization scheme tuned for industry and buildings and uses… | ||
| Interview Hidetoshi Yoshida | Hidetoshi Yoshida | 07m |
Japan's Things Network effort is described with concrete claims: six tdn communities, 20 gateways now with a prediction to triple next year, and a planned book… | ||
| Interview Laurent Vittally | Laurent Vittally | 07m |
A French wireless manufacturer with 20+ years in M2M builds two core businesses: building management and ready‑to‑use solutions that turn sensor data into… | ||
| Interview Marco Barbato | Marco Barbato | 11m |
Company retrofits legacy industrial machines with Laura radios to replace weekly physical checks — a biodiesel generator fleet example cuts technician visits… | ||
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