IoT LoRa Boards - Your Gateway to the Internet of Things
Created by Pi Supply LoRa Kickstarter
Making LoRa cheaper, more accessible and hackable using your favourite single board computers - Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Micro:Bit!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Node Betas, US government shutdown, configuration webpage, things conference, survey, happy holidays and more!!
over 7 years ago
– Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 06:33:23 PM
Hi all,
We have a lot of information to share with you, good and bad. So lets get started.
Node Beta Units
As you know, we have been producing the first 50 unit batch of beta boards of the LoRa Node boards. These are nearing completion and (if you follow us on Twitter you may already know this) just before Christmas we got pictures of the finished PCBs for the micro:bit and Raspberry Pi pHAT nodes. Take a look at them below:
We are now just waiting for a couple of components that haven't arrived in yet, and as soon as those arrive the 50 unit samples will be finalised and shipped over to us and then out to our beta testers. We will post an update with pictures once the finished boards have arrived with us!
US Government Shutdown
As you may have heard from the news, there is a government shutdown in the USA currently due to a disagreement over funding of Trump's border wall. We don't really want to get into politics here but unfortunately it will actually have a direct effect on our campaign :-(
Basically, the FCC has only got enough funding to stay open until the 2nd January 2019. After that date, they may be able to stay open longer but it is unlikely they will be have the funding to do so, unless the partial government shutdown is resolved. You can read more about it here.
As we need to FCC test the products, this may effect our ability to ship to backers in March 2019 as we need to complete the testing before proceeding with the full 1k batch of the Node and Gateway boards.
We are working with the test house to come up with a plan of action and will report back when we have more info. The FCC are only needed to verify the report / submission and issue a FCC testing reference number etc. We are hoping that we can complete the testing and verification, but that we can just leave the filing of the docs until the FCC is back up...that way we know they will pass and will just be waiting for the "filing exercise"...however we are not entirely sure if this is possible so we are doing our best to find out.
We will do our best to mitigate any delays with this, but it is an important aspect of the project to get this testing completed so we are keen not to cut corners here.
Configuration Webpage
On a brighter note our engineer Ryan has been hard at work on the software side of the project and is making some awesome progress - working alongside our beta testers and internal team to improve and iterate the functionality and design of the software. Again, you may already have seen this on twitter but the latest addition is the IoT Gateway Management dashboard webpage that you can see in the pictures below:
This is essentially a web server and web app that runs natively on the Raspberry Pi and is baked into the SD card image we will supply and will be the default and easiest way to manage your gateway. If you are on another machine (phone / laptop / desktop) that is connected to the same network as the gateway, then you will be able to load up the management webpage using the URL or IP address of the Pi, as in the above screenshots.
The first picture shows you the LoRa Gateway Configuration Tool which enables you to easily change the connection parameters of your Gateway to The Things Network (we may add other LoRaWAN providers in the future) - no more manually editing config files on the command line (unless you want to)!
The second image shows the "commands" dashboard - which is pretty simple with four options:
Restart System - restarts the packet forwarder
Run diagnostics - runs a quick diagnostics test program on the gateway to check for hardware issues
Reboot System - reboots the raspi
Shutdown System - shuts down the raspi
The last picture shows the gateway management status page which gives you an overall summer of important gateway information such as the gateway ID as well as info about the internet connection and packet forwarder status, among other things. There is also statistics of packets transmitted and received as well as the ability to easily tweet this information as well:
We hope you like the look of where we are going with this. We will be aiming to be constantly adding to and improving this software - so like a fine cheese or wine the product will improve with age :-). The most recent code is not up yet, however you can have a poke around in the code if you would like to on out GitHub repo (it will all be open source) - https://github.com/PiSupply/IoTLoRaRange
BackerKit Surveys and Add Ons
As mentioned in the campaign and some of the updates, we decided to go with BackerKit in order to make the process of managing our backers, surveys, pledge management, add on sales and shipping a great deal easier.
As promised, we now have everything set up and ready to go, but we wanted to explain this in a bit more detail.
The BackerKit process includes three important sections:
Survey - this is to find out more about you and how you intend to use your IoT LoRa boards. This will really help us complete the development of the project and better serve your needs.
Extras management - a lot of our backers pledged more money than the specific "pledge level" they chose on Kickstarter. BackerKit knows how much extra you pledged, and will allow you to select any additional options that you may want.
Shipping address - we need this in order to make sure your pledges turn up exactly where you want them! You can edit this at any time until we "lock down" the addresses (which will be closer to the shipping date, and we will notify you before hand). So if you move house, made a mistake or anything else you can easily change it.
In addition to the important features above it will also allow you to:
Purchase add ons - this means you can purchase more LoRa Gateway and Node units, batteries, Raspberry Pis, SD cards, power supplies, cases and more.
Pay for international shipping cost if you forgot - most people have done this already, but for anyone who forgot it is a really easy way to pay the correct amount.
Didn't receive your BackerKit survey invite?
Hopefully you should all receive your BackerKit survey invite to the email address you registered with within the next 48 hours (if you signed in with your Facebook account, this will be the email address registered to your Facebook account).
If you have not received the invitation email within this time please check your spam folder to make sure it didn't accidentally get caught in there. If you still can't find the email, please send a message through the contact form on our BackerKit page or via the Kickstarter messaging system and we will sort this out for you.
There is an opportunity to share the project and the pre order page at BackerKit after entering your shipping address details - we would be extremely grateful if you could do this as any additional orders will help us to make the IoT LoRa boards even more awesome!
Please note that for existing backers the easiest way to add extra items to their pledge is to do so via the Add-ons purchase method after the survey rather than the pre-orders page or through our website.
The Things Conference 2019
As mentioned previously, we will be attending The Things Conference 2019 with a stand, a fair few of our team and a couple of products on the LoRaWAN Wall of Fame! Join 2000 developers, innovators and integrators at the largest LoRaWAN conference in the world. You can also come and meet us! The conference is on January 31st & February 1st in Amsterdam.
The Things Conference 2019
We have been speaking to the lovely people at The Things Network who organise the event and we have managed to secure a discount code for tickets for our backers.
And with that - we are finished with this update. So all that remains is to wish you all a belated Happy Holidays (or Merry Christmas if you celebrate Christmas). And of course, a great New Year!
We have some exciting stuff planned for 2019 and we can't wait to share it with you :-)
Thanks,
Aaron and the Pi Supply team
December 2018 - lots of certification, beta testing, survey info and more!
over 7 years ago
– Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 12:10:24 AM
Hey backers,
Sorry for the silence in the month since the Kickstarter finished...we are still here and we have been working hard in the background on getting the LoRa boards stretched (see stretch goals section below!), beta tested (see beta test section below) and certified (see certification sections below) ready for beginning shipping in February / March next year! The good news is, it is still looking like we are on track to hit our target shipment of March 2019 - but we will keep you posted with exact dates as we move closer. We have Christmas / New Year and Chinese New Year in the way of now and the shipping date, which can sometimes cause some unexpected delays - however we have built in some contingency for this already so we should still be fine.
Here is some further information about our progress in the last month since the Kickstarter finished.
Stretch Goals
In the campaign, we announced some stretch goals that we would add to the project should we hit certain funding targets. As a reminder, these were as follows:
£30k - Gateway GPS add on compatibility
£40k stretch goal - IP Rated Cases
£50k stretch goal - Other cases and Node GPS support
£60k stretch goal - IoT LoRa Smart Gateway
Because of our mistakes with our previous PiJuice project - offering stretch goals which we then could not add, we wanted to be quite conservative with what we offered by way of stretch goals.
So the good news we have for you is that, after further investigation and number crunching - we should actually be able to hit all 4 of the stretch goals!
Part of the reason for this is that we have had significant reseller/distributor and industrial interest in the boards since the Kickstarter, and because with more accurate pricing we have been able to reassign some contingency time and funds to these activities!
The timelines for these are as follows:
£30k - Gateway GPS add on compatibility - already added to final product, GPS board will be an add on and available as part of the survey process but the header will be populated on every board.
£40k stretch goal - IP Rated Cases - we have sourced these now and at the moment we are working on developing a carrier / adapter board that will both secure the Pi and any HATs / pHATs you add to it and also provide the electrical connections. We will be offering this as part of the surveys, and will hopefully be shipping these at the same time as the main pledges, otherwise shortly afterwards
£50k stretch goal - Other cases and Node GPS support - we have been able to add a 4 pin I2C header to each of the Node boards. This will be populated with a header. Soon we will begin work on an I2C GPS board that we hope to be available shortly after shipping the main rewards. We will ideally have this as part of the survey process as an added extra if we are able to get indicative costs by that point
£60k stretch goal - IoT LoRa Smart Gateway - we have already begun exploratory work on this and a sort of feasibility study. We think it will take about 3 to 6 months to get a working design with prototypes. We will give exclusive access to the Beta test program for this product to backers of this Kickstarter as an added bonus. We will provide more details on this closer to the time!
We are very excited to hear your thoughts on all of this and we are very happy to be able to ship you a product that is even better than we had promised during the campaign, as well as adding future upgrade capability.
Beta test
As you may know if you are active on Twitter and follow us...we recently sent out a set of around 50 beta units of the IoT LoRa Gateway HAT to a variety of testers ranging from professional engineers to absolute beginners. We were hoping for a good level of testing and we have been delighted with the response.
So far, things are looking good! Many users have posted their feedback on Twitter/Discord etc and we're using this feedback/data to create guides and tutorials - to make it easier for you to set up once we've shipped your rewards :)
In other beta test news - we now have the latest version samples of the nodes with us and our engineer Ryan is assembling those today/tomorrow. We hope these will be the final ones and as soon as they are done we will be pressing "go" on the 50 units beta batch. Before any of you ask, currently the beta is full but if that changes we will let you know here and we will take new people on a first-come-first-served basis.
LoRa Alliance Certification
We had mentioned during the campaign that we had received LoRa Alliance membership. And we also promised as part of the campaign that we would pursue LoRa Alliance Certification for our devices. This is not a cheap process, but we felt it would be important for people to feel comfortable in using our products in real-world infrastructure deployments.
We have quoted with a number of test houses that can perform the certification, and we are actually now trying to rush this through by the end of the year as we found out that there is an incentive for the testing (by the LoRa Alliance) which will save us about $4k of costs on the total price (this is part of the reason we can now offer some upgrades in stretch goals too).
The testing company we have decided to proceed with is called DEKRA. They are very experienced at this sort of work and we think we are in good hands for the testing. Currently the testing is scheduled as follows:
Protocol testing of Nodes:
beginning middle of the week W50 (December 12th)
RF Performance of Gateways: week W51 (December 17th)
RF Performance Nodes: testing to be scheduled from the first month of the year
We will keep you updated with progress but we do not foresee any issues with this.
The neat thing about this certification is that the LoRa Alliance operate a scheme called "certification by similarity" - what this means is that once we have finished the certification it will make it cheaper for us and other people making gateways and nodes based on the RAK833 and RAK811 modules from RAKwireless to certify other products because they can say it is "similar" to ours and then it requires less testing.
So we should be helping the whole LoRa community to reduce costs going forward which is a great thing! If anyone needs help in the future, please feel free to reach out to us because we would be happy to provide any paperwork or assistance needed to do this similarity certification.
CE / FCC / Other certification
You may also remember that we promised at least CE and FCC testing and certification as part of the campaign, again to give peace of mind and recognised compliance to our products and those that use them in deployments.
We are actually are in the middle of certifying our entire catalogue of own brand products for CE, FCC, IC (Canada), MIC (Japan) and RCM (Australia and New Zealand) with our testing partner CCIS (Shenzhen Zhongjian Nanfang Testing Co, Ltd.). Due to testing in excess of 40 products with them we have been offered a very competitive rate, and as such we have decided to add IC, MIC and RCM certification into the mix for the IoT LoRa range. This gives a much broader ranger of protection outside of Europe and America and hopefully should make it easier for any industrial customers with a multi-national presence looking to deploy these across different areas of the world. And for end users it should give you the confidence that you will not be flouting any rules by using one of our devices.
Again, this is quite costly but we feel it is important to provide this level of confidence in our products and our work and can bring us out of the "hobbyist" market and into the more industrial quality product space - except with a MUCH better price point than you are used to :-)
We hope that the testing and certification will be completed by the end of January, and definitely before we ship.
Arduino Node Shield
We now have some higher resolution pictures of the Arduino Node Shield! In the pictures below it only has the headers soldered for the larger Arduino shield format, however in the final version it will include headers for the Arduino Nano size boards as well.
IoT LoRa Arduino Node Shield
Like the other Node boards, it has an on board dual-band (868 and 915MHz) antenna. It also has got the ability to switch to an external antenna. We are aiming to supply a dual band external antenna with each board as well but we are still working out if we can do that all within the current price point. Fingers crossed we should be able to but we just want to check the quality of the antennas we have sourced to make sure they are up to scratch!
Survey
A number of you have asked about a post Kickstarter survey. We are likely to be sending this our sometime between the end of December and middle of January. We are just needing to finalise pricing on all of the accessories such as the waterproof cases, antennas and other such items before we can get it all loaded up and sent out.
Just so you know, the surveys will be done by BackerKit rather than directly through Kickstarter. We will let you know when we send out the surveys through backerkit so you know to look out for an email.
Thanks, The Pi Supply Team
We are funded! Also - The Things Conference UK, new firmware, our gateways, packaging designs, stretch goals, accessories etc
over 7 years ago
– Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 03:55:45 PM
Hey backers,
This is quite a long update, but we have quite a lot of great information to share with you. Feel free to skip to the bits that interest you :-)
Over 100% Funded!
In case you didn't already notice...we are now over 100% funded. This is fantastic news and we couldn't be happier! We can't wait to bring these low cost multi-channel gateways and nodes to the LoRa community and hopefully increase the accessibility and usage of LoRa across the globe.
After the issues we had with our previous Kickstarter campaign PiJuice, we are determined to deliver this Kickstarter on time (or preferably early!).
So on that note, we have actually today contacted our manufacturer and placed an order for 1000 units of the Gateway HATs, micro:bit Nodes, Node pHATs and Node Shields so they can start ordering all of the parts as soon as possible.
868 or 915 MHz node? New Firmware!
We have been working with the manufacturer of the LoRa modules that we use - RAKWireless - in order to improve the RAK811 node module to make it more user (and manufacturer) friendly. RAKWireless are a relatively small / new company but have some of the best customer and technical support we have ever experienced.
They have created a new firmware for their RAK811 modules that allows you to update the frequency to change between 868 and 915 MHz using simple AT commands - this hugely simplifies our manufacturing and means we only need to make 1 version of each node and don't need to do one per frequency. It also means that if you move a node between a 868MHz and 915 MHz country you can just send a command to the device to change the frequency and then it will just work, with the same code / setup on your Pi/Micro:Bit/Arduino. Pretty neat!
Unfortunately this is not possible with the gateways, but we are discussing adding this possibility in the future on the gateways with RAK, but it will take a bit of time to investigate further and implement so is not likely to be ready in time for shipping this Kickstarter.
The Things Conference On Tour - UK
As you might have read in our previous updates, we attended the Things Conference On Tour UK in Norwich last Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th October. We were also a gold sponsor and sponsored their "Hack-a-Thing" competition with some Gateway To-Go Kits!
Pi Supply Sponsor Banner
This event was held in the wonderful setting of The Halls Norwich which is a medieval friary complex! It was well attended by a large number of companies and visitors who are interested in LoRa, LoRaWAN and The Things Network - and all of the projects that they enable.
Our engineer, Ryan Walmsley also ran a talk called "My TTN Journey" which was all about his experiences with The Things Network, LoRa and the work that led to the development of the boards on this Kickstarter.
Ryan talking about "My TTN Journey"
Live Drawing of Ryan's Talk
We should have a video of the talk in due course which we will post in a future update for your viewing pleasure! But until then we can only leave you with this awesome drawing (above) of Ryan's talk by the fantastic Rebecca Osborne which she live-drew as Ryan spoke...pretty amazing stuff!
Below you can also find some other pictures from the day including some general shots of the stand, the boards on display and a great shot of the team (John, Aaron and Ryan) with Wienke Giezeman, who is the founder of The Things Network, holding our IoT Gateway HAT.
We were also pretty chuffed to meet some of our backers on the day, and also signed up quite a few new backers as well who were impressed with the quality and ease of use of our devices.
The team with Wienke Giezeman from The Things Network
Stand - Day 1
Stand - Day 2
Stand - With Visitors
Demo Boards
Last but not least, Ryan was also running a number of workshops (3 per day) showing people how to use the Micro:Bit Lora Node with the BBC Micro:Bit and Microsoft Makecode.
The code is all available here and will soon also be available directly through the Microsoft Makecode editor (as soon as we get it approved by their team). This module makes it super easy to use drag-and-drop code blocks to deploy programs to the Micro:Bit.
We are also planning to run this workshop, or similar LoRa workshops, at events in the future. If you are running an event and think this would make a good addition to the event then please let us know and we can talk about bringing it there!
The Things Conference - Amsterdam 2019
As mentioned above, the event we attended in Norwich is a touring version of the very popular The Things Conference which is held in Amsterdam every year and is the original and normally the biggest of the events!
We have been speaking to the lovely people at The Things Network who organise the event and we have managed to secure a discount code for tickets for our backers.
You have now missed the early bird tickets, but with this code you can still get 10% off!
We also plan to attend this event with a stand and will let you know more details on that in the not too distant future.
Pi Supply Gateways and Partner Page
If you follow us on twitter you may have seen that we have recently been deploying a few LoRa Gateways! You can see that we currently have 3 gateways live:
This includes a gateway using our own hardware and other gateways from Laird and The Things Network. We will also soon have a Kerlink and a LORIX One gateway deployed (we are trying to use and deploy a number of gateways so we can perfect our own software/hardware in the future!), as well as a large number more of our own gateways deployed at various locations!
We also have a few neat ideas about how to get more gateways deployed in some cool places (more on that in the future) and will keep you all posted with our progress on that as we go.
We have had our graphic designers squirreling away creating some lovely packaging artwork for our boards, so the packaging looks as good as the boards themselves. This is the same packaging that you will receive your pledges in (there isn't one for the arduino shield yet, because we are still awaiting high quality images of that board). Check them out below:
IoT LoRa Gateway HAT Packaging
IoT LoRa Node pHAT Packaging
IoT Micro:Bit LoRa Node Packaging
We have also just got pictures from our manufacturer of the first 50 units of our IoT LoRa Gateway HATs. We have 50 people signed up to beta test these boards...including a bunch of our team and a number of other people who signed up to the beta test via Twitter prior to the campaign starting.
This test batch will help us to ensure that the production process of the full batches in future will run smoothly and to identify any production issues before those larger batches. The beta test of 50 gateways will also help us to make sure everything on the installation and software side is up to scratch and working nicely before we ship out the Kickstarter reward units.
Some of the beta testers are also backing the campaign, and I would imagine once they have the units in their hands they will do some hands-on unboxing videos/write ups/tweets and we will share any that are posted with you in future updates.
For now, here are some photos of the Gateway HAT. These units are exactly as they will appear in the final product - as they are final production prototypes:
IoT LoRa Gateway HAT 915MHz Version
LoRa Gateway HAT Contents
Mounting hardware and stickers
PCBA
As you can see, we are including a fair few accessories including a heatsink, antenna, mounting hardware, stacking header and accessories. If you already have a RasPi/SD card and power supply you shouldn't need to buy anything else in order to be up and running with your gateway in minutes!
Stretch Goals!
As we are now past our funding target, we know a lot of you will begin asking about stretch goals. We have already been discussing some cool additional features that we could add to the boards for relatively little effort. The danger with stretch goals is offering things that can't be easily / properly priced and that require major board changes. However, we have identified some interesting stretch goals which require only very minor board changes and add some very cool functionalities.
£30k - Gateway GPS add on compatibility
GPS module orientation
GPS Module
We have found some good quality UART GPS modules which we can quite easily and quickly integrate with our Gateway HAT. If we hit £30k we will add a pre-populated header to every Gateway HAT board, and sell the above GPS module as an optional extra as part of the BackerKit survery process after the campaign is finished. We will also sell these after the campaign.
This gives ultimate flexibility and means you can easily upgrade your Gateway at any time to include a GPS module. This will be plug and play and compatible with our software.
£40k stretch goal - IP Rated Cases
IP67 Outdoor Gateway Case
Inside of IP67 Case with Ethernet Passthrough
We have found some very nice IP67 rated cases, at a good price. If we get to £40k, we will add these cases as an optional extra in the BackerKit survey process, complete with Ethernet pass-through gland and compatible antennas. We will also design and spec out a custom mounting plate to allow you to easily mount the following accessories to your Pi Gateway:
PiJuice HAT
Pi PoE Switch HAT
Probably a whole bunch of others :-)
This will allow you to create a power-over-Ethernet capable outdoor gateway, complete with a UPS, solar panel support and host of other features for around £300 all in. We are pretty confident that there is nobody else on the market that can offer the same functionality, complete with a completely customisable hardware and software stack, for the same money. And we will make this a reality if we hit this stretch goal!
Of course, the neat thing is that this case will also be suitable for outdoor nodes as well and with some neat gland accessories it can enable the use of sensors such as light, air quality and noise sensors for smart city monitoring with Pi, Arduino or Micro:Bit.
£50k stretch goal - Other cases and Node GPS support
We will design an indoor case for the LoRa Gateway and LoRa Nodes to protect them whilst in use.
We will also design an I2C GPS module and add a header to connect this new module to the LoRa Node boards. Meaning you can really easily add GPS to the LoRa Node boards.
£60k stretch goal - IoT LoRa Smart Gateway
We will develop and design our own standalone "Smart Gateway". This will be a full featured, no-holds-barred, standalone LoRa Gateway. Whilst this does not add any functionality to the boards in this Kickstarter, we will dedicate funds and development time to developing the best of the best standalone LoRa gateway that we possibly can, for the cheapest price on the market and with the largest feature set, with fully modular and upgradeable, industrial spec hardware. This is not an easy task, but we are pretty confident we can rise to the challenge!
Our main goal is to bring this awesome new technology into more hands, for cheaper. To do this, we need better and cheaper hardware and if we hit this stretch goal we will go one step further and commit to developing this.
Please keep sharing!
Seeing as we have some pretty awesome stretch goals in the works....the only thing we need now is more support :-)
Thanks for looking at our project and for your support in bringing it to life. Even bigger thanks if you have made a pledge to our project. You’re awesome!
Even if you can't support with a pledge, why not help us by spreading the word on Facebook, Twitter and any other social networks or blogs you use. Click any of the links below to share:
It was brought to our attention recently that we made a typo in all of the pledge levels...we have put 916MHz in all of the pledge levels instead of 915MHz! This is merely a typo and rest assured that the devices you will receive are 915MHz frequency not 916 :-)
Thanks, Aaron and the Pi Supply team
LoRa Alliance Member and Things Conference 2019 Discount
over 7 years ago
– Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 02:00:47 PM
Hi backers,
We have just passed the 70% mark out of the £25,000 target with 23 days to go so it's looking like we should make it! Thanks so much for your help so far in sharing the project. Please continue to spread the word anywhere you can so we can get over that all important target amount :-)
LoRa Alliance Membership and Verification
This week we were accepted by the LoRa Alliance as an Adopter Member. This means we are joining the likes of The Things Network and many other companies in being a part of helping to promote and direct the future of LoRa and LoRaWAN. This is very important to us as it is a technology with a very exciting future and we are proud to be a part of supporting that!
We will be using the above logo on lots of our communications to display our membership going forward.
One of the other benefits of LoRa Alliance Membership is the ability to have products certified. This is a very expensive process ($4k or so per board and per frequency), and not required for the products to operate, however it is definitely something we plan to pursue on all of our boards over time to provide reassurance and peace of mind to our customers - so they are safe in the knowledge that our products play nicely with other LoRa devices.
This will be on top of our CE/FCC and other statutory certifications.
The Things Conference On Tour - UK 2018
In the last update you will have seen that we are attending The Things Conference On Tour - UK on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th October in Norwich. We are proudly supporting the event as a Gold Sponsor and we are looking forward to meeting some of you there. Do let us know in the comments if you are planning to attend - and on the day let us know you are a backer!
We will have all of the boards with us on the day, and our engineer Ryan Walmsley will be running a talk and 3 workshops with LoRa and Micro:Bit as well as John and Aaron running a stand! It should be a fun couple of days.
If you do not already have tickets, but you are keen to attend - you can use our sponsor discount code for 35% off tickers - PiSupplyVIP35OFF
For those of you who can't make it - we will be taking some live video and other video at the event and we will post links to these videos here after the event for you.
The Things Conference 2019 Discount Code
As mentioned above, the event next week in Norwich is a touring version of the very popular The Things Conference which is held in Amsterdam every year and is the original and normally the biggest of the events!
We have been speaking to the lovely people at The Things Network who organise the event and we have managed to secure a discount code for tickets for our backers.
If you are interested to attend, you should sign up today, as regardless of the discount code, all tickets increase in price in 6 days time!
We also plan to attend this event with a stand and will let you know more details on that in the not too distant future.
Thanks, Aaron and the Pi Supply team
The Things Conference on Tour UK
over 7 years ago
– Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:17:46 AM
Dear Backers,
Thanks to your continued support and sharing of the project we have just hit 60% funded! Let's keep up the momentum, keep sharing the project and we should be able to hit 100% funded within the next week at the current rate :-)
The Things Conference On Tour - UK
You will have read on our campaign page about the compatibility with The Things Network. You can see from their original Kickstarter campaign (they funded on KS too!) that "The Things Network community is on a mission to crowdsource a global open and independent Internet Of Things network."
As part of this, they run a conference called The Things Conference. This conference is currently on tour and it is coming to the UK next week.
As you can see from the above image, we are a sponsor of the event - and our engineer Ryan, who developed these LoRa boards, is running a talk and a workshop on LoRa on the days!
The event is being held on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th October as St Andrews Hall, St Andrews Hall Plain, Norwich NR3 1AU. This is about 2 hours on the train from Central London.
If you are already attending - we can't wait to meet you there! If you do not already have tickets, but you are keen to attend - you can use our sponsor discount code for 35% off tickers - PiSupplyVIP35OFF
For those of you who can't make it - we will be taking some live video and other video at the event and we will post links to these videos here after the event for you.
