The Things Conference 2024
2024-09-25..2024-09-26
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]
who it's for
LoRaWAN developers, embedded firmware engineers, network operators, systems integrators, iot architects, smart city planners, iot educators
topics
LoRaWAN network planning; energy harvesting for sensors; satellite IoT connectivity; 2.4 GHz LoRaWAN; zero touch gateway provisioning; Zephyr RTOS on IoT devices; RSSI triangulation asset tracking; total cost of ownership for IoT; multi-band multi-mode modules; indoor gateway deployments; data sharing and federated access; AI and TinyML on devices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| LoRaWAN in education | Ben Olayinka, Remko Welling, Al Bennett, Mark Stanley | 30m |
Deployments show concrete scale: a regional program puts CO2 sensors and gateways into classrooms across a projected 550 schools (about half live now) so… | ||
| Closed loop tracking | Afzal Mangal, Thomas Brunner, Michael Beutler | 21m |
Claim: LoRaWAN can do robust closed loop tracking indoors and outdoors using practical techniques and cheap hardware. Demonstrations deploy gateways and… | ||
| IoT is hard, keep hustling | Afzal Mangal, Lyubomir Yanchev, Dan Quant, Paddy Gogin | 27m |
Claims that hardware reliability matters: half a million devices are running in the field, while other manufacturers ship millions of units a year. Talks about… | ||
| Bridging Technologies: Multi-Connectivity in IoT | Afzal Mangal, Brandon D Satrom, Ohad Peled, Patrick Noordhoek | 24m |
Companies demo a working multi‑radio strategy: a cellular+Wi‑Fi+satellite module and a LoRaWAN gateway with cellular backhaul are shipping, and single‑die… | ||
| Low power design: where are we at? | Satyajit Sinha, Anicet Giaimo, Xavier Dupont, Vanja Samuelsson | 27m |
Panelists report concrete failures and fixes: many deployments that promised 5 years, deliver 2 years after firmware updates or bad power profiles; field tests… | ||
| Is satellite IoT still a thing? | Satyajit Sinha, Rob Spurrett, Jan Rohde, Filipe Azevedo | 27m |
Concrete claims and numbers: demonstration since 2018 that LoRaWAN over satellite can run battery devices, gateways claim the highest throughput, and operators… | ||
| The Role of LoRaWAN in Hazardous Areas | Alix Paultre, John Tillema, Daniel Moest | 25m |
Companies report 9,000 sensors deployed at a refinery with an ROI in year one, devices claiming 8–9 year battery life and Zone 0 certified hardware for… | ||
| Maintaining a healthy long-lived LoRaWAN installation | Ioannis Charalampidis | 13m |
Analytics reveal the actual failure modes: 10–15,000 street sensors on Mykonos cause rogue join storms and duty‑cycle violations from new smart lights; a… | ||
| LoRaWAN in the classroom | Steven Boonstoppel | 17m |
Classroom project uses The Things Network / The Things Stack LoRaWAN with a school gateway and ~60 sensor boxes (temperature, pressure, TPH, PM, CO2, light… | ||
| The Future of IoT: Data Sharing and Collaboration | Gerard van der Hoeven | 13m |
Claims a decentralized legal+technical framework that issues a data sharing driver's license and enforces attribute‑level access control, with governments in… | ||
| Feedback on 10 year of teaching LPWAN technologies | Yann. Douze | 15m |
Course runs ten years teaching IoT with LPWAN and shows what students actually build and measure rather than theory. Hardware and tools include Grove LoRa E5… | ||
| Monitoring and alerting in industrial manufacturing | Andreas Kücker | 13m |
Factory deploys a LoRaWAN setup with a single indoor gateway and 25 sensors (temperature, humidity, magnetic door contacts, 15 m leakage detection cable, XYZ… | ||
| Developing an Open Source (Hardware and Software) LoRaWAN Sensor | Pascal Roobrouck | 15m |
Open-source LoRaWAN sensor hardware and firmware for museum environmental monitoring, designed in KiCad and published on GitHub, uses an STM32WLE5 module… | ||
| Redefining Innovation: From Tech to Tangible Human Outcomes | Charles Reed Anderson | 14m |
Argues that value comes from concrete human outcomes not buzzwords, citing digital twins that cut traffic ~20% when cities merge bus taxi and camera data into… | ||
| Uncovering the hidden costs of IoT infrastructure | Paul Martin Schwartz | 17m |
Claims that an integrated off‑grid solar LoRaWAN gateway cuts five‑year TCO by roughly €6,000 total, with deployment costs from €5,500 to €4,000 and CAPEX… | ||
| How energy harvesting makes IoT viable for large scale enterprises | Roelof Koopmans | 14m |
Claims that battery-powered IoT is neither sustainable nor viable at scale and that replacing batteries with printed organic photovoltaics cuts long-term cost… | ||
| The latest advancements in the LoRa product portfolio | Carlo Tinella | 15m |
Announces a downloadable LoRa Basics modem E binary that runs fully on LR1121, cutting host flash needs by ~60–100KB and offering Semtech/LoRa Alliance… | ||
| Enhancing your existing and future IoT Devices with Zephyr RTOS | Luka Mustafa | 16m |
Claims that Zephyr RTOS lets one codebase cover many boards and connectivity types: a single firmware source compiles for 10 PCB variants, four device flavors… | ||
| Embracing LoRaWAN for smarter societies | Matt Hatton | 19m |
Claims concrete policy wins and concrete risks make the case here LoRaWAN is pitched as national infrastructure with deployed use cases like water metering at… | ||
| LPWAN trends and economic evaluation of satellite IoT solutions | Satyajit Sinha | 16m |
Claims backed by numbers and concrete costs: 16.6 billion unique IoT connections in 2023 with LPWAN at 8% now and 12% by 2030 into a 40 billion forecast… | ||
| Enterprise IoT software: Build vs. buy | Iryna Liashchuk | 16m |
Case studies and numbers decide: a construction firm spends $2–3M spent and five years and ends with 5% of sites instrumented and workflows still manual; a… | ||
| 10 year experience: IoT Veterans having a chat | Wienke Giezeman, Jaap Groot, Alistair Fulton | 21m |
Ten years of field work compress into concrete claims: Hitachi lamada ships as a productized platform and lamada built in two years becomes a companywide… | ||
| Generative AI and IoT, is there a match? | Kevin Schiffer, Matt Hatton, Jenny Plunkett | 27m |
Claims that >90% of AI instances are in IoT and examples using Edge Impulse plus Nvidia Isaac Sim and Omniverse ground the session in specifics: a tiny robot… | ||
| Update on 2.4Ghz LoRaWAN | Matt Hatton, Thomas Brunner, Dave Belcher, Deniss Truhanovs | 25m |
Claims: global license‑exempt operation, higher throughput than sub‑GHz, and no tight duty‑cycle limits enable firmware‑over‑the‑air updates and frequent… | ||
| Modem-E Early Adopters Experience | Matt Hatton, Carlo Tinella, Suman Thapa, Fabio Bonizzi | 23m |
Modem‑E embeds a full LoRaWAN stack on the radio so a single chip handles networking while a tiny host MCU runs only the application, cutting integration work… | ||
| How do citywide LoRaWAN networks drive citizens' value? | Afzal Mangal, Jason Legget, Gary Howell, Catherine Caruana-McManus | 27m |
LoRaWAN exists beyond pilots: networks use water utilities as anchor tenants to justify citywide coverage, feed The Things Stack and digital twins, and ingest… | ||
| Let's break down the complete TCO an IoT project | Matt Hatton, Nick Gyles, Roelof Koopmans, Dane Ralston | 25m |
Concrete numbers and outcomes: pilots show a 50% access rate for property installs, battery swaps add roughly $20–$100 per visit, and pilots typically double… | ||
| The past, present and future of the LoRaWAN standard | Olivier Seller, Johan Stokking | 28m |
Covers concrete changes: current recommendation is LoRaWAN 1.0.4 for new devices, a planned 1.2 adds cryptographic agility (enabling passive roaming via a new… | ||
| How utility LoRaWAN networks drive smart cities? | Alix Paultre, Simon Bunjamin, Dan Preece, Gary Adams | 22m |
Utility LoRaWANs are presented as deployed infrastructure not theory: 1 million+ meters by 2030 and regional builds of 400–500 gateways that already yield… | ||
| What matters in LoRaWAN Smart building deployments? | Alix Paultre, Lyubomir Yanchev, Mario Schröder | 28m |
Claims that LoRaWAN can retrofit buildings fast and cut CO2 translate into concrete devices: radiator thermostats, solar CO2 sensors, relays with electricity… | ||
| LoRaWAN network planning, build overcapacity or plan? | Robin Duke-Woolley, Terry Moore, Chakib Berkani | 23m |
Choice reduces to concrete trade offs not buzzwords: either overprovision gateways for low device SF and long battery life or start small and add capacity as… | ||
| Do's and don'ts: Electronics manufacturing and LoRaWAN devices | Satyajit Sinha, Violet Su, Xavier Dupont, Gavin Brown | 27m |
Specifics: SG Wireless reports deploying 3 million devices and faces projects that demand 12–15 year hardware lifetimes, solved with conformal coating and… | ||
| "Not invented here", the IoT industry's biggest issue | Alix Paultre, Alistair Fulton, Paul Pinault, Krishna Iyer | 26m |
Claim: doing everything in-house delays IoT projects by years and kills small vendors. Evidence: about 300 proofs of concept from one commenter, many… | ||
| Energy Harvesting and LoRaWAN, the IoT holy grail? | Robin Duke-Woolley, Jeff Crystal, Pierre Gelpi, Jerome Vernet | 28m |
Claim: indoor photovoltaic cells generate usable power at a few hundred lux and modules are qualified for 10+ years in harsh sun, with organic printed cells… | ||
| The Synergy of LoRaWAN and Artificial Intelligence | Joey Jiang | 14m |
Claims a working path to put AI on LoRaWAN endpoints: MCU-class 0.1 TOPS MCUs run tiny ML models, a catalog of 400 pre-trained models converts cameras into… | ||
| The Things Indoor Gateway Pro: Technical Deep Dive | Johan Stokking | 15m |
Zero-touch provisioning that truly only needs plugging in, built-in roaming SIM with Cat‑1 bis modem and managed firmware updates, and a cloud‑always… | ||
| Welcome to the IoT Casino | Jaap Groot | 15m |
Claims a functioning AI/ML antenna simulation platform with tens of thousands of device models that predicts performance from PCB dimensions, funded by the… | ||
| The clamp-on advantage: a game changer in water metering | Ramtin Massoumzadeh | 07m |
A working non-invasive clamp-on ultrasonic meter claims to measure flow and temperature, detect leaks, and enable retrofit billing without cutting pipes… | ||
| Boost LoRaWAN: overcome limits | Olivier Seller | 16m |
Claims that coverage is the bottleneck not capacity supported by simulations and field numbers: densifying to about four gateways per km² reduces non‑connected… | ||
| Minimizing CO2 Impact from Concept to Deployment in Smart Buildings | Lyubomir Yanchev | 17m |
Company adopts ISO 14001 and starts quantifying footprints, finds batteries 60–80% of a device's LCA emissions, and notes a 200 km service trip emits ~40 kg… | ||
| The IoT might help us save the world, but not if we don't fix it | Alistair Fulton | 16m |
Claims that IoT can align economic and environmental goals by letting companies produce more from less and that AI will demand more physical‑world data. Names… | ||
| Reality Check on Total Cost of Ownership in Asset Tracking | Chiara Koopmans, Liliane Paradise | 18m |
Claims an actual tiny James Bond‑style tracker that uses Wi‑Fi GNSS LoRa TDoA and BLE scanning for seamless indoor/outdoor fixes, gives concrete device design… | ||
| Beyond the Smart City | Jonathan Pearce | 16m |
Claims global LoRaWAN coverage from LEO satellites that pass every 90 minutes and deliver device uplinks at least twice a day, demonstrates a working soil… | ||
| The Cutting Edge of AI and IoT | Ivan Turasov | 18m |
Claims that Ed impul builds edge AI pipelines deployable to Linux MCU and NPU devices, shows integration with generative models like OpenAI Whisper 11 Labs and… | ||
| From Dots To Values | Henry Huang | 24m |
Company builds LoRaWAN gateways (single/8/16‑channel) and sensors and claims above a million units shipped into 35 countries. Move from hardware to an… | ||
| Multi-Band Module with Multi-Mode Firmware | Suman Thapa | 13m |
A compact multiband modem module combines a built-in LR1121 chipset with Semtech’s LoRa Basics Modem firmware and ships with regulatory certificates for US EU… | ||
| Investing in existing Building Infrastructure | Mario Schröder, Marco Dietz | 14m |
Claims that LoRaWAN plus The Things Stack cuts retrofit time from days to several hours for a hotel room, replacing cable runs with LoRaWAN radio valves and… | ||
| Getting to the root of TCO for IoT Success | Xavier Dupont | 17m |
One in six IoT projects yields significant payoff while many fail early; cost questions focus less on chip prices and more on training and installation… | ||
| Exploring IoT device implementation strategies | Anicet Giaimo | 14m |
Breaks down total cost of ownership into bill‑of‑materials, NRE (RF tuning, certification, rework), supply‑chain and field maintenance with concrete… | ||
| LoRaWAN as LTE-M/NB-IoT network extender | Yann Bauduin | 11m |
Claims that LoRaWAN acts as LoRaWAN microcells to extend LTE‑M/NB‑IoT coverage, filling densification and battery‑life gaps while lowering infrastructure cost… | ||
| Zero Touch Provisioning - Configuration of LoRaWAN Gateways | Ken Yu | 11m |
Claims an automated factory zero touch pre-provisioning system that embeds LoRaWAN channel plans, certificates and network server credentials so gateways ship… | ||
| Semtech's LoRa® vision | Hong Hou, Wienke Giezeman | 16m |
Semtech commits to funding LoRa silicon and software building blocks, touting a product roadmap and ecosystem enablement rather than vague promises. Specifics… | ||
| Opening Keynote: TCO of IoT, new managed gateway and more | mink kisan, y stoking | 28m |
Platform reports 2.3 million devices and 4.5 billion messages per month (~1,700 msgs/sec); claim is that LoRaWAN data is high‑quality for AI. New product is… | ||
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