Let's cover the US together! We don't have to wait on big corp's to do it, let's make it ourselves!
Building a global, free and open IoT network
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#12Support The Things Network. They are not only supplying easy to activate hardware, they are hard at work at an excellent architecture ( http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/t/request-for-comments-net... ) and a clean, easy to use integration framework.
it would be so cool to just fiddle with IoT sensors without worrying about a nearby wifi hotspot with access. Just using the Things network as a free and open road is a beautiful idea.
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#13Great Job! Singapore and Malaysia will TTN soon also, the things.. are in motion.
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#14How does this compare to the SIGFOX network?
I'm not an expert but a big difference is packet size: Sigfox is limited to 12 bytes, while LoRaWAN is up to 256 (iirc). Sigfox also imposes a max of 140 messages per day. Also, the governing body of LoRa is open (lora alliance), while Sigfox is closed. In general, the LoRaWAN approach is more open, with most if not all of the infrastructure being open sourced.
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#15How does this compare to the SIGFOX network?
SIGFOX has certain limits (outside of theoretical and practical bandwidth restrictions) placed on it. radio-electronics.com (http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/wireless/sigfox/basics...) states up to 140 messages of 12 bytes per object per day, with a throughput of up to 100 bytes per second.
The Things network, on the other hand, seems to supply its services openly and freely without limits, using the LoRaWan spec. Semtech (http://www.semtech.com/wireless-rf/lora/LoRa-FAQs.pdf) says it provides between 0.3 and 11kbps of bandwidth, so in theory your speeds can be anywhere from 3x to 111x higher.
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#16Groningen pledged a city wide network within 12h. You guys rock!
the whole city? How cool is that! #dreamingofgoingbacktogroningen
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#17The range of these things is inmense, the possiblities endless: I love how you guys bring this technology to everyone!
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#18The range of these things is inmense, the possiblities endless: I love how you guys bring this technology to everyone!
Thanks Thomas!
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#19Great Job! Singapore and Malaysia will TTN soon also, the things.. are in motion.
Awesome!
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#20Does this provide a bare IP connection or is it just for MQTT channels back to your servers? I can't tell if that's "the" method of communication or just a helpful thing that you're offering.
Basically, is this something that I would be able to use directly with my company's CoAP APIs?