The Things Network - low cost, power, bandwidth open IoT network

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Continuing the discussion from Most wanted APP for the SAFE Network (Part 2):

The Things Network (via @sam_uk):

Thanks for sharing this project! Its the first thing I’ve seen to do with the IoT that I’ve liked :slight_smile: (though I’ve not done any research).

I think it would be interesting to look into any synergies here. Do you have some plans I wonder, or things you are interested in doing with this and the IoT @sam_uk?

I haven’t thought about how the IoT and SAFEnetwork could be integrated - maybe others have? - but this is a good example to get out teeth into, at least in the thinking :-).

I think to connect the two you would need to introduce hardware as well as software. A very low cost/power internet connected device could provide a bridge to TTN, and this would run the Handler / App server code and use SAFEnetwork for storage (potentially and wider communications with other SAFE connected devices).

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Nothing in particular. I’m interested in getting up some Things Network gateways set up in my area and just see how/if people use them.

There’s a bit of a corporate land/network grab taking place in the IOT space. I think much of the IOT hype is overblown, but the things network seems to be a fairly cheap way of opening up the space as a commons and seeing what happens from there.

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I’ve mailed with Wienke of the Things Network in the past, but he didn’t really respond (probably thought that I was sending spam)

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Maybe one day they’ll find out that they can monetize their network through the SAFE Network.

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Looks really cool and a city like Amsterdam in 4 weeks covered is awesome!!!

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I suspect the lack of reply is that they seem to be motivated by principle rather than money, at least at this stage.

Also I can imagine it reading like a get rich quick scheme…

I wonder if anyone will build an app for it? I guess it would be a generic LoRa backend server rather than code specific to the things network?

Thanks

Sam

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