Community-led IoT projects

Two projects from year 1 of The Things Network Reading

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…to build a global open crowdsourced Internet of Things data network

We’re on a mission…

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Building a community, not a clubREADING

GEEK NIGHT

Q : “Can you make a business out of this IoT?”

Q : “Can you make a business out of this IoT?

…or are you having a mid-life crisis, darling?”

• Non-profit: promote, develop and supportcommunity IoT projects

funded by grants, members, products

• For profit: IoT project management, R&D,PoC, consulting, workshops

1. Reading Hotspot project

Gateway

Thingitudeserver

Great use case for TTN

We made a thing…

LoraWANradio

module

Noise level sensor

Temperature and humidity

sensor

WiFidongle

Ceramic antenna

Real time clock

We wrote a lot of code…Hotspot Device

Database

Server

Applicationdev

Everything on GitHub

We put the Thing in a box…

…and the apps in the store

We got our first customer…

Any day now…

“Dude, that’s MY use case!

2. LoRaWAN for the BBC micro:bit“We're looking forward to working with The Things Network, on a project involving micro:bits in the near future.”

1 million micro:bitsgiven to students!

Top quality promo

videos!!

Working samples

handed to schools

Over 9,400

views!!

So, should we take it forward?

• Is there enough interest in a LoRaWANshield for micro:bit to go into production?

• Pricing up a production run, CE marking

• What is the complete offer?

• Who is our customer?

• At what scale is it a good business case?

Q: Can you make a business out of IoT?A: Maybe. With practice. And help.

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