The Things Network

Some kind of “niche-within-a-niche” reality emerged at The Things Conference in Amsterdam this week – about an IoT opportunity that is fragmented but also promising, and within reach. Growth within …

Ten years old today (August 21), Netherlands-based LoRaWAN outfit The Things Industries appears to be thriving in a complex, fragmented, and weirdly twisted IoT market. Wienke Giezman, the company’s co-founder, …

In case you missed IoT Stars – last Tuesday evening, the old Estrella Damn brewery, Barcelona – here is a recap of our conversation on stage with Wienke Giezeman, co-founder …

Some of the best ideas in IoT… Scratch that; some of the most important innovations in the whole tech game…  Actually, scratch all of that; if everything in the end …

Deutsche Telekom is offering non-cellular LoRaWAN, as well as satellite-based cellular IoT, as part of its expanded global IoT proposition for connecting data-only embedded SIMs (eSIMs) in both low-power (LPWA) …

The big message from the big massacre in ‘massive’ IoT – which has seen high-takes vendors written-down and high-stakes gamblers written-off – is that it is not a massacre at …

IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC) in Barcelona is not just about cellular, of course. But its proximity in the calendar, as January turns to February, to the city’s big MWC …

For IoT developers, safely testing products, sharing experiences, and understanding how to overcome complex challenges are critical to designing functional technologies. Community networks offer a great avenue for developers to …

A helpful snapshot of the developing IoT market, from a presentation at The Things Conference in Amsterdam a couple of weeks back; Paul Pinault, vice president of platform and market …

This is a rehash of a social media exchange last week, somewhere in a far-off echo chamber on LinkedIn, following a post by Enterprise IoT Insights about unsuccessful IoT deployments …

Next week – in case you’ve been trapped under a heavy object, away from the business pages on social media – is The Things Conference, the annual LoRaWAN shindig in …

The LoRa Alliance has moved to head off fears about a collapse of LoRaWAN as a public network technology in Europe, following the decision by Bouygues Telecom in France to …

There is a change in the IoT industry, and it has to do with the convergence of two other big developments. The first is the ongoing adoption of the cloud; …

Further to the news yesterday of Microsoft’s appointment to the board of the LoRa Alliance, the rest of the LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to move at a decent clip, it appears. …

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘IoT is not about LoRa vs Sigfox anymore; it is about Design Process X vs Design Process Y’. Click here …

The low-power wide-area (LPWA) end of the IoT sector is characterised by the capabilities and limitations of its main connectivity technologies. But this is wrong. These technologies – the likes …

Deutsche Telekom is working with The Things Industries (TTI), the industrial solutions division of LoRaWAN network provider The Things Network (TTN), to combine licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies …

As is its job, the LoRa Alliance took to the (virtual) stage at The Things Conference this week to proclaim its destiny, slate the competition, and gee-up the troops. The …

IoT platforms are not a panacea for the complex inter-workings of industrial IoT systems. They are over-the-top interfaces, which just introduce another layer of complexity to the market. The IoT …

The developer community working with LoRa-based IoT solutions took stock of Semtech’s new LR1110 module at a virtual meet-up last month, and declared it a “pretty unique piece of silicon”. …

Amsterdam-based LoRaWAN group The Things Network (TTN) has instructed the IoT community at large to draw strength, as a collective working with open technologies, from its apparent weaknesses as a …

An intro-video plays as the founders of The Things Network (TTN), take to the stage at their annual LoRaWAN bash in Amsterdam. A Hollywood-style voiceover crows about big-sounding tech – …

The LoRa Alliance set out its stall at The Things Conference, an annual LoRaWAN meetup in Amsterdam, with an agenda to make the IoT market simpler for developers, device makers, …

LoRaWAN will work in the 2.4 GHz spectrum band, also occupied by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems, to enable LoRaWAN-based IoT devices to work globally at the same frequency for the …