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Let's provide Reading with a long-range, free to use "Internet of Things" network!

From the 1800s to the present day Reading has a fantastic history of technology innovation. In the spirit of innovation, education and simple geeky fun, we want to give everyone in Reading free access to a wireless network so they can connect their IoT devices and build their web applications. So what will you build? - Flood monitors - Pizza delivery tracker - Free parking space spotter (please!!) Please join us on our community site.

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Let's provide Reading with a long-range, free to use "Internet of Things" network!

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The Things Conference UK is coming to Reading

By Mark Stanley

28 June 2019

Join us for The Things Network's official UK conference: Oct 14-15 2019 in Reading

Now in its second year the conference is a 2-day celebration of t…

Reading Geek Night - 10th Nov…

Come to Reading Geek Night on 10th November 2015 to hear Mark Stanley talk about TTN Reading. Reading Geek Night is a wonderful community even that r…

The Things Network Reading be…

Congratulations for becoming an official community of The Things Network!

Many thanks go out all the members of the community who contributed to this…

Happy 1st Birthday TTN Reading

This month the Things Network Reading is one year old!
We were invited back to Reading Geek Night to tell them what we've been up to.
You can find th…

Hotspot project - what we did…

This summer we have been working with students on an end-to-end Internet of Things Project that we've called Reading Hotspots.

You can read all about…

We ran a Thingithon!

Yesterday we held our first Thingithon, as part of Reading's Festival of Digital Disruption.

See what we got up to on our blog

Hackathon on June 11

We are running our first hackathon next weekend!

It's going to be fun - we have a prototype of a Reading Hotspot and an ANPR camera to play with :-)

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Reading coverage is getting b…

This week Reading gained another two gateways! You can see from the map that our coverage is improving all the time. This is the map we keep updated.…

Gateways a go-go!

TTN Reading is growing fast now, which is very exciting. We ran a workshop 2 weeks ago with TTN Thatcham and that has sparked a lot of interest. We h…

The second gateway is LIVE!

Reading's second TTN gateway has been installed at GROW@GreenPark, Reading's collaboration, incubation and co-working hub. GROW is situated in the Gr…

We are live!

http://ttnreading.org/tiki-index.php?page=Projects

Things Network Reading - the …

Here's the video of my talk at Reading Geek Night. Many thanks to Andy Harris for recording and editing it, Mike Beardmore for digging me out of a ho…

First gateway is live!

Reading's first gateway is up and running! Please get in touch if you want to connect or add the next gateway! Join us on our community site

Last night's talk

Many thanks to everyone who came along to Reading Geek Night yesterday evening. I had a great time talking about The Things Network - hope you did to…

Reading Geek Night - 10th Nov…

Come to Reading Geek Night on 10th November 2015 to hear Mark Stanley talk about TTN Reading. Reading Geek Night is a wonderful community even that r…

The Things Network Reading be…

Congratulations for becoming an official community of The Things Network!

Many thanks go out all the members of the community who contributed to this…

Happy 1st Birthday TTN Reading

This month the Things Network Reading is one year old!
We were invited back to Reading Geek Night to tell them what we've been up to.
You can find th…

Hotspot project - what we did…

This summer we have been working with students on an end-to-end Internet of Things Project that we've called Reading Hotspots.

You can read all about…

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srgdg is now part of Reading community

2 months, 2 weeks ago

There is a new meetup from community nearby (West Berks)

10 months, 3 weeks ago

There is a new published community nearby (Uxbridge)

1 year, 5 months ago

The Things Network Reading got its 50th member

1 year, 11 months ago

There is a new official community nearby (Bourne End & Cookham)

5 years, 5 months ago

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You can get involved in loads of ways - build/buy/host a gateway, build IoT devices, help other people realise their genius IoT ideas, spreading the word... Please join us on our community site. Or contact Mark Stanley directly: Email: mark.stanley@coraledge.co.uk Twitter: @mark stanleyuk