The Things Conference 2024
By Andrew Lindsay
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This is the former Thatcham community that has now been expanded to cover the semi-rural unitary authority area of West Berkshire. This includes the towns of Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford, Pangbourne and Lambourn along with a number of smaller villages.
We want to show that small towns and villages can be Smart Cities too!
There is evidence that Thatcham and surrounding areas have been occupied since prehistoric times, leading to it being listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the strongest claim to being the oldest continuously inhabited place in Britain. We want to continue this pioneering spirit and bring the area into the 21st Century by developing IoT solutions for our modern day problems.
We are also one of the few communities with hands-on experience using TTN via satellite. Our creator has been using LoRaWAN and TTN since 2015 and has gained a lot of experience developing sensor devices for a wide range of use-case.
Our story
This is the former Thatcham community that has now been expanded to cover the semi-rural unitary authority area of West Berkshire. This includes the towns of Newbury, Thatcham, Hungerford, Pangbourne and Lambourn along with a number of smaller villages.
We want to show that small towns and villages can be Smart Cities too!
There is evidence that Thatcham and surrounding areas have been occupied …
About this community
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The Core Team of West Berks consists of:
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It's been quiet
Things have been a bit quiet around here but starting to get back upto speed with the latest developments.
I have started a new position in IoT this …
Migrating to V3 community sta…
As of today, one of our gateways has now been migrated to the TTN V3 community stack. This has been done as there were two gateways at the same loca…
Happy 5th Birthday!
5 years ago, within a few months of The Things Network being created, we started a small community in Thatcham, West Berkshire with 1 gateway.
The or…
DIY indoor RAK833 Gateway in …
The DIY gateway based on the Raspberry Pi and the RAK Wireless RAK833 LoRa concentrator card has now been put into an enclosure based on an aluminium…
DIY RAK833 Gateway kit availa…
One of our backers, Thing Innovations, have created a new gateway based on the RAKWireless RAK833 LoRaWAN concentrator card. The adaptor board plugs …
3rd Birthday
In October we turn 3!
Sometime in October 2015 our first gateway was installed. The same Multitech Conduit AEP gateway is still running and was join…
Thatcham Community meetup
We are hosting an event on 8th August, 7pm at NADHack, The Workshop, The Moors, Thatcham RG19 3AZ.
Come along to learn how The Things Network (https:…
Meetup planning
Just a quick note to say we are in the process of sorting out a date and venue for a meetup to get things moving along.
Lookout for details soon.
Range testing
Initial coverage is looking good with the two gateways. More roads to be walked or ridden to check coverage espescially on the south side of the town.
Our Things Network Gateway ha…
After over 2 years since the kickstarter campaign ended our backer reward has finally arrived in the shape of a new gateway, two Things Uno boards an…
LoRaWAN Rain bucket sensor
A new sensor has just been added, a Davis Instruments Rain gauge complete with a LoRaWAN interface sending data via TTN. This is using a full IP67 ra…
Best LoRaWAN Sensor developme…
Our main sponsor has produced one of the best and easiest to use LoRaWAN sensor development shields. This is based on the Microchip RN2483, it includ…
Portable CO2 sensor
Our partner Thing Innovations are developing a number of air quality monitoring devices. The first of these is a portable CO2 monitor with GPS. This …
Join the community
Do you want to help grow the Thatcham TTN community? Build and deploy sensors using out gateway (and future gateways)?
Join the community and find ou…
Occupancy sensor
The LoRa Occupancy sensor from Thing Innovations has been developed on the multi-use sensor platform ENV-Board, developed in collaboration with Herel…
Water Quality monitoring
Our partner Thing Innovations has developed, in partnership with Herelab.io a multi-purpose sensor platform based on the MultiTech mDot LoRaWAN modul…
Long distance development
Our community initiator, Andrew, spent some time in the USA in April looking at a number of LoRa projects that can be directly usable on The Things N…
Community Illumination
We recently had a community sign created that is illuminated with a series of RGB LEDs.
LoRa Button
Do you need a big button that you can just hit to do that one thing you always want doing? Order Pizza? Turn off all the lights? Change TV channel? W…
Shed Sensor deployed
A new sensor has been deployed in a shed owned by our community member Justin. The sensor is based on the MultiTech mDot module and a DHT22 temperatu…
RN2483 Breakout PCBs
Prior to developing the LoRaWAN Pi board, a breakout PCB for the Microchip RN2483 was developed to allow quick and easy prototyping of devices using …
Pi-Zero node
With the release of the new Raspberry Pi Zero, this was a perfect opportunity to produce an add on board to allow these new Pi Zeros to be connected …
First community meetup
The evening of Thursday 19th November saw the first meeting of the Thatcham TTN community where future plans and ideas were discussed. Further meetin…
Sensor Development #2
The second sensor uses the MultiTech systems mDot LoRa module. This includes the LoRa transceiver chip and microcontroller on a small Xbee compatible…
Sensor Development #1
One of the first sensors being tested is built using a Teensy LC Arduino compatible module and a HopeRF RFM92W LoRa transceiver module. This is curre…
First Gateway Installed
The first LoRaWAN gateway in Thatcham was installed in August 2015 and has only recently joined The Things Network. The gateway is a MultiTech Condui…
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Activity
The Things Network West Berks organizes a Meetup on 25 September
3 months, 1 week ago
West Berks community page updated
3 months, 1 week ago
Andrew Lindsay posted an update in The Things Network West Berks: "The Things Conference 2024"
3 months, 1 week ago
There is a new published community nearby (Uxbridge)
10 months ago
Pedro Carvalho is now part of West Berks community
2 years, 9 months ago
Contact us
Email: ttn@thinginnovations.uk
Contributors to West Berks
The Core Team of West Berks:
Contributors:
Tony Girling
Guillain
Nick Young
Stephen Roderick
Paul Dean
Pedro Carvalho introduction to West Berks community
bgrantjones introduction to West Berks community
mattstagg introduction to West Berks community
mattiomc introduction to West Berks community
Mike Beardmore introduction to West Berks community
