The road to open networks

Open Source has won: nowadays most of the internet runs on top of open source software and we trust it on devices big and small for everyday computing. We’ve come a long way in building trust into open source software, but the landscape was very different a couple of decades ago. This trust in open source has created room for open models to spread to other areas such as Open Source Hardware, Open Data, Open Access, and more recently Open Networks.

Since 2015, the community of The Things Network is building a global, free and open network for the Internet of Things based on LoRaWAN technology. Today, The Things Network is active in more than 400 cities across 84 countries and there are thousands of users worldwide contributing to consolidate the notion that open network infrastructure can be trusted just as much as we trust open source software. Some of the largest local communities of The Things Network are located Switzerland.

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1. THE ROAD TO OPEN NETWORKS Building an open and free Internet of Things network casas@arch.ethz.ch | twitter.com/gnz
2. THE THINGS NETWORK A global community, building open source software and hardware to operate a crowd-sourced IoT network.
3. IN SWITZERLAND
4.  TECHNOLOGY  COMMUNITY  SOCIAL CHANGE
5. WHAT IS LORAWAN?
6. 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
7. LORAWAN 3 * 10 10 km range 10 USD/node 10 years battery life
8. LONG RANGE 2km - 5km in urban setting 40km+ in rural setting © ttnmapper.org , Open Street Map
9. INSANELY LONG RANGE (under extreme conditions) 201 km ground-to-ground by Andreas Spiess, TTN Basel http://www.sensorsiot.org/ © ttnmapper.org
10. INSANELY LONG RANGE (under extreme conditions) 333 km air-to-ground (helium balloon) by @telkamp (mapping @jpmeijers) © ttnmapper.org
11. 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
12. FREE & OPEN SOURCE STACK
13. UNLICENSED SPECTRUM Anyone can deploy a LoRaWAN network!
14. 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
15. 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
16. ZURICH COMMUNITY
17. THE SPARK
19. CORE TEAM
20. © 2015 Wireless Solutions by IMST GmbH
21. MEETUPS CORE TEAM
22. Photo by Ali Soy, @alisoy1502
23. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
24. MEETUPS CORE TEAM FIRST GATEWAYS
25. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
26. MEETUPS CORE TEAM FIRST GATEWAYS GOING LIVE!
27. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
28. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
29. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA
30. COMMUNITY GROWTH MEETUPS CORE TEAM FIRST GATEWAYS GOING LIVE!
32. MEETUPS CORE TEAM FIRST GATEWAYS GOING LIVE! COMMUNITY GROWTH SUSTAINABILITY
33. SOCIAL CHANGE
35. CAN WE TRUST AN OPEN NETWORK?
36. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it Photo by Aanjhan Ranganathan, CC BY 2.0 Steve Ballmer, ex-CEO Microsoft and incontinent over-stater of facts 1st June 2001
39. THE WORLD RUNS ON OSS
40. REDUNDANCY CRYPTOGRAPHY -and-running? DECENTRALIZATION
41. OSS + OPEN STANDARDS
42. THANKS! Gonzalo Casas Open Network Infrastructure Association casas@arch.ethz.ch | twitter.com/gnz
43. LINKS https://ttn-ch.herokuapp.com/ https://opennetworkinfrastructure.org/ https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/switzerland/ https://bit.ly/onia-dinacon17