The Things Virtual Conference 2020
2020-04-16
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| After Movie | 01m | |
A short event recap film that shows conference scenes, attendee interaction and stage moments set to music and no spoken explanation; uploader links to The… | ||
| LoRa® based Connectivity Everywhere | Thomas Telkamp | 47m |
A working LoRa via satellite service already exists with one satellite in orbit at roughly 500 km altitude orbiting every ~95 minutes and covering the globe… | ||
| Gateway Demo: LoRa Basics Station | Krishna Iyer Easwaran, Anton Beitler | 31m |
Basic Station claims to solve large‑scale gateway management by shipping two concrete protocols and a tiny C runtime: CAPS (HTTP POST) for… | ||
| Affordable & Simplified geolocation asset management solution w/LoRa Edge™ | Pedro Pachuca | 26m |
Claims a single-chip LR1110 single-chip geolocation that integrates GNSS, a Wi‑Fi passive scanner, LoRa transceiver and a crypto engine, and a LoRa Cloud… | ||
| IoT Business Models | Rob Tiffany | 31m |
Shows a concrete subscription win: moving vending machines from unaffordable hardware installs to $25/month per vending machine after pilots proves savings and… | ||
| Weather Station Projects and Wildlife Sensors w/LoRaWAN | Scott Waller | 10m |
Built a portable wildfire detector called thingy AQ that measures PM2.5 CO CO2 and ozone and validates against regulatory monitors, working inside a… | ||
| Real-world Success Stories with LoRa | Eric Conn | 27m |
Claims concrete outcomes and scale: 25–30k sensors through 2–3 gateways with a deployment pushing toward 50k, devices costing $20–$50 at scale, multi‑year… | ||
| The Relevance of IoT Ecosystems | Fabio Violante | 28m |
Argues Arduino moves from prototyping to production with enterprise-grade boards like Portenta and Nano families, adds a secure crypto element on new connected… | ||
| Technology & Market Update | Wienke Giezeman, Johan Stokking, Laurens Slats | 26m |
Shows concrete wins and roadmaps: a balloon sets a new range record at 775 km, with the burst heard by 1,800 gateways within hours; almost 11,000 gateways are… | ||
| Live Q&A: STM32WL | Benjamin Guilloud | 17m |
Chip is in production with mass market availability later this year and orders routed through local sales or distributors; development kits arrive from… | ||
| Thinking Beyond the Silicon: Leveraging marketing to create value | Sander Arts | 28m |
Argues that marketing must move past specs to concrete business models: subsidize or give hardware away to capture the 2/3 data value of a predicted $10–11T… | ||
| Unlocking the potential of smart lighting | Richard Perry | 14m |
Lucy Zodion describes an Aberdeen deployment using LoRaWAN with 17,000 of 32,000 lights fitted with UK‑made key‑node controllers on 7‑pin NEMA bases, six… | ||
| Smartparks and IRNAS designing Rhino implants and Collar LoRaWAN trackers | Luka Mustafa | 32m |
Claims concrete results: a GPS in-horn implant that combines GPS fixes with LoRaWAN uplinks, proven on ~770 rhinos; a collared elephant tracker sending… | ||
| Building ROI positive LoRaWAN | Alexander Overtoom | 27m |
Claims that LoRaWAN delivers ROI come with specifics: case studies show 50–100k digital mousetraps deployed and new services sold, industrial monitoring uses… | ||
| Secure Element: Provisioning made EASY | Nicolas Demoulin | 22m |
Microchip and The Things Industries ship a LoRaWAN-tailored secure element that arrives pre-provisioned with unique derived keys from HSMs, removing any need… | ||
| Bringing hardware to the market | Josh Lifton | 24m |
Crowd Supply helps engineers move hardware from prototype to continuous sales by doing media asset production, fulfillment, reseller ordering and parts… | ||
| LoRaWAN helps with recovery of koalas after wildfire | Tomaz Suklje | 08m |
The Things Network: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ A compact WaterSense device using LoRaWAN measures up to 2.5 m from an 80 mm mount, fits narrow pipes… | ||
| Smart Metering Solutions with LoRaWAN Devices | Marco Leoni | 06m |
Watch if the session states concrete outcomes: number of meters deployed, measured battery life, actual payload sizes and uplink interval, costs per endpoint… | ||
| Talkpool air quality sensors & smart water meters | Stefan Lindgren | 13m |
Talkpool shows concrete devices, protocols and numbers: LoRaWAN sensors with hardware-based security (secure boot and keys stored in HW), support for The… | ||
| EMBIT LoRaWAN module w/Microchip-TTI crypto element: Micro-embedded approach | Alberto Marri | 24m |
Shows a concrete secure-module workflow: a Micro-embedded EMB-LR1276S-T using ATECC608A-TNGLORA as root key store plus on-module SAMR34 MCU, code in C built… | ||
| Workshop: 3 best practices to create a long battery life for IoT devices | Björn Roqvist | 59m |
Three concrete steps: know your device by measuring active pulses (38 mA peak, ~44 µWh per long SF0 send, ~2.4 µWh per SF5 send) and sleep (~1.44 µA); profile… | ||
| LoRa Nodes and Gateway HAT | Aaron Shaw | 19m |
A demo of working hardware and prices: a Raspberry Pi HAT that converts a Pi into a eight-channel gateway using a RAK833/RAK2247 SX1301 module with EEPROM… | ||
| How to select the best battery for my LoRa node? | Isabelle Sourmey | 09m |
Compares battery chemistries and gives a concrete energy budget worked end to end, showing how sleep current, wakeup and transmit current spikes and regulator… | ||
| 5 years experience with LoRa in agriculture | Reinier van der Lee | 22m |
Five years of LoRaWAN deployment in agriculture translates to concrete results not promises: Vinduino field stations with solar-battery power and gateways… | ||
| LoRaWAN GPS tracker | Andres Ramirez | 11m |
LPN tracker is a heavy‑duty IP67 GPS device that actually ships with a replaceable 7.4Ah battery, onboard microphone and repeater and stores up to 1,500… | ||
| Mass Deployment of LoRaWAN Sensors | Paul Hayes | 24m |
Four provisioning patterns get named and compared: fixed keys (burned in, irreversible), in-band provisioning (LoRaWAN downlinks to replace defaults)… | ||
| Gateway Demo: Deploying networks on solar power | Jose Gabriel Marcelino | 02m |
Learn about Omnium Sensing’s SolarPOD - a solar powered gateway-in-a-box solution for quick network deployment and how LoRa makes this particularly lower cost… | ||
| Gateway demo: Nebra Smart Gateway | Ryan Walmsley | 09m |
Nebra’s gateway ships as a complete kit with mainboard, daughterboard, a compute module and an IP67 case and claims under 400 pounds for the base model… | ||
| Predictive maintenance with sensor "BOB" | Elisabeth Schloten | 05m |
A LoRaWAN vibration sensor called Bob learns a machine baseline for one week then locally analyzes vibrations and sends an alarm only on anomalies plus reports… | ||
| What is relevant beside electronics and wireless communication | Reinhard Bischoff | 10m |
Devices already run in 65 countries and survive Arctic ice, sewers, marine salt and deserts, claiming rugged field operation. Designs use internal antenna and… | ||
| LoRaWAN Sensor Node | Gowtham Raj | 09m |
A LoRaWAN sensor node that measures temperature and humidity plus light control and sends readings over LoRaWAN to The Things Network and an application… | ||
| Integrations: The Things Network into Datacake | Simon Kemper | 13m |
Demonstration shows The Things Network and The Things Industries devices forwarding payloads into Datacake using a webhook integration plus an MQTT bridge… | ||
| Presentation of an autonomous LoRa device supplied by Energy Harvesting | Sarah Houtain | 19m |
e-peas demonstrates an AEM Ambient Energy Manager and a LoRa demo kit powered by an indoor photovoltaic cell at ~300 lux sending messages every six minutes the… | ||
| Workshop: Micro:bit & LoRaWAN | Ryan Walmsley | 13m |
Workshop shows a micro:bit node sending LoRaWAN packets to The Things Network using MakeCode with EU868 settings, ABP keys (DevAddr NwkSKey AppSKey) pasted… | ||
| KLAX: the easiest way to read energy meters via LoRaWAN | Felix Wolf | 11m |
A battery-powered IR reader called KLAX reads the legally exposed meter serial stream, mounts by magnet, wakes every 15 minutes to capture pulses, saves… | ||
| Deploying LoRa Networks in remote areas: Uganda Refugee Settlements | Francois Hamon | 07m |
UNHCR and Greencityzen run a large-scale pilot in Uganda refugee settlements that uses LoRaWAN to secure drinking water by tracking tank levels and deliveries… | ||
| Oxygen Therapy Valves with LoRaWAN | Marco Leoni | 05m |
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ An oxygen-valve device with a digital gauge and LoRaWAN 1.0.3 connectivity reports cylinder pressure, open/closed state… | ||
| Smart city Climate: First successes in Switzerland | Karl Gutbrod | 12m |
A deployed Zurich prototype from 2019 combines miniature sensors over LoRa with satellite maps and interpolation to produce door‑to‑door temperature maps and… | ||
| Opening | 06m | |
Announces that The Things Network and The Things Industries operate the largest single LoRaWAN deployment with more than half a million devices that route up… | ||
| 3 best practices in designing a long battery life for your IoT device | Vanja Samuelsson | 05m |
Three concrete practices: measure whole activity cycles continuously across hardware, firmware, temperatures and distances; profile batteries from specific… | ||
| LoRaWAN and Agritech: Success, failures, lessons learned, future | Uros Males | 05m |
Choice of radio matters: using RN2483 and RN2903 modules sped development in 2018 but forced firmware workarounds and limited control so a smaller modern chip… | ||
| Gateway Demo: Integrated solutions of a gateway & network server | Daniele Cleri | 14m |
Builds an offline private LoRaWAN network that runs TTN Stack v3.7.0 and a gateway platform on Ubuntu 18.04 using Docker CE and docker-compose, installs a LoRa… | ||
| Smart Agriculture | Uros Males, Gottfried Pessl | 17m |
A deployed LoRaWAN microclimate station does an OTAA join to TTN and sends sensor payloads every 15 minutes into FieldClimate via MQTT where soil moisture, air… | ||
| The IoT for Real - Beyond Simplistic Thinking and Models | Peter Cochrane | 33m |
Claims concrete: materials with embedded sensors and printed manufacture reduce transport and waste, vertical farms run 24/7, and current recycling is failing… | ||
| Gateway demo: LORIX One | Yannick Lanz | 09m |
Hardware is a compact IP65 LoRaWAN gateway with passive PoE backhaul and USB for configuration, plus three new stainless steel and discreet mast/wall fixation… | ||
| Smilio - LoRaWAN connected feedback buttons | Jerome Chambard | 10m |
Smilio is a LoRaWAN feedback button system that uses downlinks to reconfigure behavior on-device and proves the approach with live payloads to The Things… | ||
| LoRaWAN Network Server | Johan Stokking | 36m |
Explains concrete platform work: The Things Stack v3.7 is a full open‑source LoRaWAN network server with an enterprise distro that adds multi‑tenancy, HSM… | ||
| Transforming Legacy Monitoring Solution into LoRaWAN | Mona Gao | 08m |
Claims conversion of existing temp and humidity systems into LoRaWAN without replacing hardware using a UC1101 sensor node that exposes RS‑485 RS‑232 I2C… | ||
| Push to Talk: LoRaWAN for Social Isolation Relief | Patrick Fenner | 14m |
A LoRaWAN push‑to‑talk button links offline households into a call‑back service so users without broadband ring and talk to others with no apps or setup… | ||
| TTN in Academic Institutions in Developing Countries: lessons learned | Marco Zennaro | 06m |
Workshops using TTN in universities in developing countries report that nontechnical barriers decide success: regulatory mismatches (example Argentina using… | ||
| LoRa Edge™ Explored: A Deep Dive into Semtech’s LR1110 Solution | Nicolas Sornin | 45m |
Semtech’s LR1110 is a single-chip software-defined radio that combines a sub‑GHz LoRa transceiver, a 2.4 GHz Wi‑Fi sniffer and dual‑constellation GNSS (GPS +… | ||
| Workshop: Building a device that can run for years on small batteries | Eivind Holt | 45m |
A mailbox sensor that lasts over 2 years on AAA batteries uses a micro switch, low-power LoRaWAN board and careful software to spend most time in deep sleep… | ||
| Workshop: Antenna tuning for your LoRaWAN device | Fabien Ferrero | 28m |
Workshop shows hands-on antenna tuning for LoRaWAN devices using a low-cost NanoVNA and UFL feed, with measured S11 tuning rather than theory. Examples: a… | ||
| Workshop: An end to end integration of a LoRaWAN sensor | Andreas Dyhrberg | 01h 06m |
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ Assembles a Heltec ESP32 LoRa board with BME280 + DS18B20 and LM35, programs it in the Arduino IDE with vendor libraries… | ||
| Workshop: LoRaWAN certification: How to use the LCTT pretesting tool | Itziar de la Torre | 18m |
Shows the actual pretest flow: the LCTT pretesting tool drives an IMST Lite Gateway, activates devices and runs a scripted test app on port 224 that disables… | ||
| 6 best LoRaWAN use cases for Smart Cities | Catherine Caruana-McManus | 10m |
Lists six LoRaWAN deployments with concrete outcomes: an largest tier two air quality monitoring network in Australia tied to university validation and used… | ||
| YODIWO Wisper product line of edge LoRa gateway devices | Alex Maniatopoulos, Nikos Kostis | 07m |
Yodiwo, a leading IoT application development platform and solution provider, has launched the Wisper gateway family of edge LoRa gateway devices.
These are… | ||
| Workshop: Eclipse Ditto - Digital Twins as Part of an Open IoT Platform | Thomas Jaeckle | 01h 00m |
Claims that Eclipse Ditto is the leading open‑source digital twin framework, then shows concrete steps: connect TTN via MQTT, create twins, run JavaScript… | ||
| Integrations: The Things Network into FIWARE | Clara Pezuela, Roberto Castillo | 16m |
Claims that LoRaWAN devices plug straight into FIWARE by adding IoT Agent LoRa and that the latest The Things Network server is supported are demonstrated… | ||
| Gateway demo: RAK7240 Gateway | Matt Wallace | 10m |
RAK7240 claims a compact IP65 metal case with built‑in anti‑surge and PoE, LTE/Wi‑Fi/Ethernet and a built‑in LoRaWAN server; deployment proves half the price… | ||
| Workshop: The new STM32 System on Chip | Nicolas Fillon | 29m |
Step‑by‑step build of a LoRaWAN gateway using STM32 Nucleo‑F746ZG plus the RisingHF LR1GSHF1 (SX1301 + SX1257) concentrator, flashed with The Things Network… | ||
| Workshop: Controlling room climate with TTN and The Things Board | Elisabeth Schloten | 31m |
A working LoRaWAN chain that registers a sensor on TTN, uses OTAA, decodes hex payloads with a JavaScript payload decoder, and forwards telemetry into The… | ||
| COVID-19 & The Role of LoRaWAN | Adam Benzion | 16m |
Claim: LoRaWAN can deliver low‑cost, low‑bandwidth information and sensing to remote communities for COVID‑19 response. Concrete elements: COVID-19 detect and… | ||
| Integrations: Connect your LoRaWAN Gateway with the HiveMQ Cloud | Florian Raschbichler | 24m |
Creates a HiveMQ Cloud cluster from the web UI and uses the MQTT CLI to simulate LoRaWAN gateways and back-end clients, demonstrating credentials + URL + port… | ||
| Precision Agriculture with LoRaWAN | Rathinasamy K S | 14m |
LoRaWAN nodes measure soil moisture, trigger pumps and solenoid valves via downlinks, and verify volume with a flow sensor; deployment uses a Field Controller… | ||
| Workshop: Bridging BLE to LoRaWAN | Mark Duncombe | 30m |
30 minute workshop shows a working pipeline: a BT 510 advertises temperature every ~5 s, the RM 186 dev board scans and parses the manufacturer-specific… | ||
| Guided Tour through the LoRaWAN Hardware Process | Stefan Zimmermann | 16m |
Company history spans over 30 years with five years of IoT focus and a concrete product line: custom LoRaWAN devices including an advanced GPS tracker, IR… | ||
| Workshop: Wireless made FUN | Gregory Demont | 36m |
Hands-on coverage focuses on building and provisioning a LoRaWAN temperature sensor end-to-end: Microchip Trust&Go secure element, xplained Pro board with… | ||
| Workshop: Regulatory Approval of LoRa(WAN) Devices | Markus Ridder, Marius Winzler | 55m |
Covers concrete requirements and test results: EU RED requires roughly 18 lab tests including 1% duty cycle and 14 dBm ERP limits for 868 MHz LoRa, with… | ||
| Integrations: Ubidots' cloud integrations w/The Things Enterprise Stack | David Sepulveda | 27m |
End-to-end integration shows The Things Industries Enterprise Stack decoding a Things Node payload with JavaScript payload decoder (battery light temperature… | ||
| Gateway Demo: KONA Micro Lite Gateway | Jack Stuart | 12m |
Step‑by‑step demo connects the TEKTELIC KONA Micro Lite Gateway (8‑channel, FreeRTOS, Ethernet backhaul, claims indoor coverage across 8 to 10 stories) and the… | ||
| Smart Agriculture with Sensoterra | Daan Roethof | 15m |
Soil moisture probes send hourly LoRaWAN packets to a pre-provisioned Multitech Conduit gateway and into The Things Network then a SensorTerra cloud where raw… | ||
| Workshop: ItSDK: An opensource SDK for IoT | Paul Pinault | 31m |
Claim: get Murata ABZ firmware production-ready in 30 minutes using an open source SDK. It documents actual steps: CubeMX/CubeIDE project generation, git clone… | ||
| Integrations: The Things Network into Akenza | Jonas Schmid, Lukas Hegetschweiler | 23m |
Akenza Core connects to The Things Network by copying an Application ID, generating an access key, setting the region host and an integration ID, then pasting… | ||
| An Ultra Low Power EH PMIC for Wireless Communication Protocols | Ehsan Zabihi, Abanob Abdelnour | 05m |
NOWI Energy presents a working PMIC for energy harvesting that claims configurable MPPT and an inductor-less DC-DC converter and is demonstrated with four… | ||
| IoT & The Rise of the Solopreneur | Agustin Pelaez | 16m |
Claims concrete payoff numbers: 162 million solopreneurs and 30% of the workforce, examples using LoRaWAN and The Things Network, and local pilots that scale —… | ||
| Integrations: AllThingsTalk integration | Stefaan Top | 10m |
Claims a one hour unbox to dashboard setup and shows the actual kit contents: Laura1 rapid development kit with selected sensors, an Arduino microcontroller… | ||
| Smart Campus: A deployment perspective | Avinash Dara | 16m |
Pilot smart campus deployment in Mussoorie uses LoRaWAN and The Things Industries stack with indoor and outdoor gateways, battery-powered environmental sensors… | ||
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