The Things Network is truly a story of inspiration and aspiration capturing the imaginations and industrious spirit of the community pioneering the application of this connective technology – Long Range Communication – LoRa (Lo)ng (Ra)nge.

We invite Local Authorities, Innovative Businesses, Technology Professionals, Renewable Energy Sector Workers, Transcontinental Logistics/Logistics Sector Members, Housing Associations, Architects, Scientists, Researchers, Network Operators and any business/individual with an interested in Smart Technology to join us at St Andrews Hall on October 15th – 16th for The Things Conference to learn about The Things Network, LoRaWAN, Digital Transformation, Smart Cities, IoT and to be inspired by its ability to solve real problems to create smarter services for all.

At The Things Conference On Tour, UK you will hear all about LoRa & LoRaWAN, it’s applications and how to get involved and start leveraging this technology for yourself. Learn about Low Power Wide Area Networks for Sensors or LPWAN, Find out about LoRa & its applications, Meet businesses offering LoRa based services inabelling cost effective and affordable digital transformation that is Long Range and Low Power with no subscription overheads.

The conference boasts a fantastic lineup of business friendly talks to further your understanding giving you confidence, loaded with technical workshops to enhance your skills and packed with exhibitions showcasing businesses offering a wide variety of smart devices and services that you can start using to solve your real problems.

These devices and services are providing cost effective, affordable digitally transformative Internet of Things (IoT) based services – these include utility of Big Data, AI, Context Analysis, CompuVision and other software services becoming commonplace – making you and your organization smarter.

Meet with manufactures and businesses innovating the market with bespoke devices and prototyping at affordable prices due to the breakthroughs in 3D printing and revival in UK electronic engineering thanks to UK based businesses such as RaspberryPi, Pi Supply and Pimoroni invigorating skills.

Learn how your business can get involved in using or offering LoRaWAN based services. Learn about Open Data, Ethical Data Collection with GDPR in mind, Context Analysis, Data Storage and hear from commercial projects Oxford Flood Network, Lacuna Space, Push to Talk and more.

Hear from businesses and network with local authorities who are using or looking to this technology to solve their problems. Get hands on in our workshops and learn skills required to start developing your own LoRaWAN based solutions. Find out more about low powered devices and hear directly from The Things Network. Bring us your real world problems to solve. We’d love to hear them.

Learn how this network will become as relevant as wifi, bluetooth & NFC. It won’t be long until you will be starting to utilise LoRa based services and learn more about how The Things Network, LoRaWAN and LPWAN are at the core of digital transformation fueling industry 4.0.

You Are The Network, Let’s Build This Thing Together.

What is LoRaWAN and The Things Network?

In a sentence, LoRaWAN is a high range, Low Power, Low bandwidth network for sensors, with ranges of up to 10 km and battery lives of up to 10 years per device. It is a cost effective way of collecting data in real time and enhancing it with software utilizing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, making you and you business/organization smarter.

The Things Network started off with a Kickstarter in 2015 when founder Weinke set out determined to create a decentralised, crowd-sourced network for the internet of things based on LoRa. The kickstarter was a success and in early 2017 The Things Network realised it’s goal of creating an affordable gateway and a supporting platform for creating a global network with the release of its own gateway and the launch of its platform.

Today The Things Network operates in 84 countries and has over 45,000 active users and that community has deployed almost 5,000 gateways. This is a rapidly growing community with hundreds of market ready devices available to buy. The Things Network is operating in the UK in partnership with Digital Catapult – this means that over 400 gateways across the England are live right now. There are more in Wales and are starting to spring up in Scotland too. The Things Network is already being used in the UK to monitor water quality on site in medical facilities and research laboratories. It’s being used to track water levels to create a warning system in Oxford. It’s tracking lorries across Europe.

Read More Case Studies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QhI9C4vPD4a1oggI1H9XPjYpI8LDwluA/view?usp=sharing

Read More about LoRa : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lora-here-what-emily-jayne-crittenden/