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Gonzalo Casas
April 12, 2018
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Open Network Infrastructure Association and Make Zurich
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OPEN NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE Building an open and free Internet of
Things network Gonzalo Casas
[email protected]
| @gnz
THE THINGS NETWORK A global community, building open source software
and hardware to operate a crowd-sourced IoT network.
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OPEN NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION A Swiss civil association working towards
free, open and reliable network infrastructure for anyone, anytime.
LORAWAN • LoRa (Long Range): Radio modulation technique • LoRaWAN:
MAC protocol for Wide Area Networks (OSI Layer 2 and 3) sensors nodes gateways backend application backend LoRa ip ip
LORAWAN 3 * 10 10 km range 10 USD/node 10
years battery life
LONG RANGE 2km - 5km in urban setting 40km+ in
rural setting © ttnmapper.org , Open Street Map
INSANELY LONG RANGE (under extreme conditions) 201 km ground-to-ground by
Andreas Spiess, TTN Basel http://www.sensorsiot.org/ © ttnmapper.org
INSANELY LONG RANGE (under extreme conditions) 333 km air-to-ground (helium
balloon) by @telkamp (mapping @jpmeijers) © ttnmapper.org
LOW COST Node/transceiver: CHF 8.5 Gateway: ~CHF 250 (indoor) Open
source stack + ISM bands Low CAPEX, almost negligible OPEX Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
LOW POWER Class A Class B Class C Always send,
receive after send. Up to 10 years. Deep sleep: ~10 μA TX ~40 mA RX ~14 mA Time-synchronized receive windows. Always-on receive mode. Not supported Support not ready, but planned
ZURICH COMMUNITY
THE SPARK
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CORE TEAM
© 2015 Wireless Solutions by IMST GmbH
MEETUPS CORE TEAM
Photo by Ali Soy, @alisoy1502
MEETUPS CORE TEAM FIRST GATEWAYS
Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
COMMUNITY GROWTH MEETUPS CORE TEAM FIRST GATEWAYS GOING LIVE!
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MEETUPS CORE TEAM FIRST GATEWAYS GOING LIVE! COMMUNITY GROWTH SUSTAINABILITY
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IN NUMBERS • 60 participants from 8 countries • 17
projects published • 43.8k impressions in 32 days on Twitter • 30k people reached via Facebook video • Prominently covered in all major newspapers
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THANKS! Gonzalo Casas
[email protected]
| @gnz
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LIMITATIONS Bandwidth Payload size Regulatory limits 0.3 bps to 50
kbps 51 bytes (DR0) 222 bytes (DR4) Fair usage policy 1% Duty Cycle 30 seconds/day airtime 10 downlinks/day