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wienke

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About wienke

Co-Founder & CEO - The Things Industries

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41739511

    They never really were part of it. These gateways are barely used.

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    Comment #37418790

    can't argue with that

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    Comment #37418546

    Yeah we now support 1.5M devices with our community network and enterprise network. And the most successful ones sent the least amount of data. Here is a list of all the supported …

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    Comment #37418493

    The added this line to their LoRA Github though: "(For the radio communication technique, see LoRa.)"

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    Comment #37418363

    Why did the moderator remove the distance? That is like the main fun message.

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    Comment #37418357

    Yes, this is an outlier and it took around 8 years for this to be emerge and be detected by the community run TTN mapper initiative. The main fun thing about this is more that it s…

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    Comment #37418328

    Yes, this was 868MHz

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    Comment #37418320

    So it takes more than 5 dollars. You also need a gateway but you can get these for 99 dollars. Still this technology has a very low barrier to entry for such a long range and low p…

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    Comment #37418309

    What is astroturf? If I Google it I see fake grass.

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    Comment #37418277

    Good point. We'll add that to the next post if there is a new record. Also what can be confusing is that the business viable part is even much smaller than the technical viable par…

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    Comment #37417394

    Go for it! These communities are pretty active so you can also join one of their events.

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    Comment #37417380

    That is pretty cool. You might want to try again with 2.4Ghz LoRa. Range is shorter but still longer than 868mhz. If you search 2.4Ghz LoRa on our Youtube channel you'll find some …

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    Comment #37417100

    Recently somebody created this guide to turn your Helium gateway (running on a RPi) to a TTN gateway: https://medium.com/@friedkiwi/repurposing-helium-iot-hotspot...

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    Comment #37416754

    So people that are not known here have nothing interesting to share? Recipe for an echo chamber.

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    Comment #37416677

    Ah thanks for the education. I updated my profile. Will try to gain more karma to gain more respect.

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    Comment #37416637

    How would that exactly work?

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    Comment #37416634

    km are better though :)

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    Comment #37416631

    If you want to know more Thomas Telkamp used that Telescope for a nice experiment and bounced a LoRa message on the moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIdCzvLWCEc

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    Comment #37416611

    Sorry, I am here in all transparency. Not really hard to find out though as my first name and TTN are quite a unique pair.

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    Comment #37416471

    There are already 89 gateways in Vienna you can directly use. So nothing is holding you back :) https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/vienna/

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    Comment #37416461

    For sure would be great but LoRa has limitations as it is designed for small sensors that sent very little data: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/limitations/

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    Comment #36605244

    At https://www.thethingsindustries.com and the open source LoRaWAN developer platform https://www.thethingsnetwork.org we used to do a lot of hardware ourselves: https://www.kickst…

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