The Things Podcast

Take your LoRaWAN project to the next level with the XDK Node. Get to know the Cross Domain Development Kit (XDK) from Bosch Connected Devices and Solution and experience your possibilities with its LoRa-Extension. Reiner Schmohl, the XDK Productmanager will give you an introduction to the freely programmable sensor device and professional prototyping platform. Due to its 8 sensors and the innumer...

Low Power Wireless Energy Management Solutions for Industry & Utilities. Klemen Logar is responsible to enhance and transfer industry leadership and best practices helping companies from various fields to accomplish primary energy management goals: holistic monitoring of energy efficiency performance and reduction of energy consumption. “Sales and marketing are my passion because it brings new cha...

Recently, Hackster became half a million strong. With a great community comes great responsibility ... and an even greater opportunity to work with some of the smartest people on Earth to create solutions for a smarter and healthier future with LoRaWAN technology. Alex produces IoT tutorials and video interviews as the lead Hardware Nerd at Hackster.io – the community for electronics developers. S...

LoRaWAN and the Ocean Cleanup. Learn how LoRaWAN contributes to get rid of the plastic soup with the Ocean Cleanup. And why your use case should have at least one element to build a more sustainable planet`` With more than 10 years of Telecoms and cloud experience, Jasper switched to industrial IoT. My day to day questions are: How can we position and create day-to-day impact solutions using IoT?...

Is your LoRaWAN solution long lived? The battery life of your IoT solution can make or break your business! In this talk, Vanja discusses the challenge of designing for device longevity. She will bust some myths and looks into the do's and don’ts for getting your LoRaWAN devices last for 10 years. Vanja Plicanic Samuelsson is the Founder of Qoitech. Her background is in product development for tel...

Integrated antennas design for IoT devices. The design of integrated antennas for IoT devices is not as trivial as it seems. Off-the-shelf antennas are not performing as expected because different effects within the device (total dimensions, materials, housing, etc.). The proposed presentation aims to clarify typical antenna concepts and to highlight those parameters to be considered in earlier st...

From LoRaWAN 1.0 to 1.1, what are the security enhancements. After a summary of our report on LoRaWAN 1.0 vulnerabilities, we'll have a functional and technical review of LoRaWAN 1.0.x versions with a major focus on LoRaWAN 1.1. What are the new security features ? Are there any new vulnerabilities? What are the residual risks? What are the best security practices to deal with LoRaWAN? Renaud Lifc...

From Maker to Market 4 design principles for LoRaWAN Nodes. The Iron Triangle of Product Development (Good, Fast & Cheap: “Pick Any 2”) also applies to developing LoRaWAN products. Mixing in 20+ years’ experience with embedded design we love to share the lessons we learned about designing connected, low-power devices that are GOOD; no compromise! Jeroen Hobbelman (Microchip) Lucio Di Jasio (Microc...

Cloud Service and Geolocation Update. Richard Lansdowne will take you through how Semtech is leveraging services to break down the complexities of bringing key solutions to a much wider audience, lowering both the barriers to entry and the costs. He will also report on the lessons learned from a year of offering developers instant, free access to hybrid and fusion geolocation solutions. To learn m...

Driving down the total cost of ownership of LoRaWAN deployments. Wienke and Johan will talk about their experiences of developing The Things Network as a scalable, multi-region deployment. They will share their vision on the future of LoRaWAN and have multiple announcements to bring the future of LoRaWAN a bit closer. Wienke Giezeman is the initiator of The Things Network, the first crowdsourced f...

Selecting the right LoRa IC for your application. David will highlight the features and advantages of each LoRa IC in the SX12XX platform and how to select the best match for your application To learn more about LoRaWAN and about us you can go to our website. Join the topic discussion: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/foru... Learn more about The Things Network: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

What about never having to use batteries again? Developing IoT products that are resilient in energy constrained environments. Energy harvesting, from the perspective of a (industrial) hardware developer. To learn more about LoRaWAN and about us you can go to our website. Our website: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/ Learn more here: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs... You can also check our...

How to build a secure provision workflow and strengthen authentication to TTI’s join server. Manipulating application and network server keys is not only a daunting process but also opens backdoors in LoRaWAN connected products. Microchip’s secure element, bundled with TTI’s join server service, helps simplify the provisioning process and secures the keys, not only in the deployed system but also...