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The road to open networks

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.

Gonzalo Casas

October 20, 2017
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  1. THE ROAD TO OPEN NETWORKS
    Building an open and free Internet of Things network
    [email protected] | twitter.com/gnz

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  2. THE THINGS NETWORK
    A global community, building open source
    software and hardware to operate a
    crowd-sourced IoT network.

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  3. IN SWITZERLAND

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  4.  TECHNOLOGY
     COMMUNITY
     SOCIAL CHANGE

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  5. WHAT IS LORAWAN?

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  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

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  7. LORAWAN
    3 * 10
    10 km range
    10 USD/node
    10 years battery life

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  8. LONG RANGE
    2km - 5km in urban setting
    40km+ in rural setting
    © ttnmapper.org , Open Street Map

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  9. INSANELY
    LONG RANGE
    (under extreme conditions)
    201 km ground-to-ground
    by Andreas Spiess, TTN Basel
    http://www.sensorsiot.org/
    © ttnmapper.org

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  10. INSANELY
    LONG RANGE
    (under extreme conditions)
    333 km air-to-ground (helium balloon)
    by @telkamp (mapping @jpmeijers)
    © ttnmapper.org

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  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

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  12. FREE & OPEN SOURCE STACK

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  13. UNLICENSED SPECTRUM
    Anyone can deploy a LoRaWAN network!

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  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

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  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

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  16. ZURICH COMMUNITY

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  17. THE SPARK

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  19. CORE TEAM

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  20. © 2015 Wireless Solutions by IMST GmbH

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  21. MEETUPS
    CORE TEAM

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  22. Photo by Ali Soy, @alisoy1502

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  23. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA

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  24. MEETUPS
    CORE TEAM
    FIRST GATEWAYS

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  25. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA

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  26. MEETUPS
    CORE TEAM
    FIRST GATEWAYS
    GOING LIVE!

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  27. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA

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  28. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA

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  29. Photos by @gnz, CC-BY-SA

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  30. COMMUNITY GROWTH
    MEETUPS
    CORE TEAM
    FIRST GATEWAYS
    GOING LIVE!

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  32. MEETUPS
    CORE TEAM
    FIRST GATEWAYS
    GOING LIVE!
    COMMUNITY GROWTH
    SUSTAINABILITY

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  33. SOCIAL CHANGE

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  35. CAN WE TRUST AN OPEN
    NETWORK?

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  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

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  39. THE WORLD RUNS ON OSS

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  40. REDUNDANCY
    CRYPTOGRAPHY
    -and-running?
    DECENTRALIZATION

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  41. OSS + OPEN STANDARDS

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  42. THANKS!
    Gonzalo Casas
    Open Network Infrastructure Association
    [email protected] | twitter.com/gnz

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  43. LINKS
    https://ttn-ch.herokuapp.com/
    https://opennetworkinfrastructure.org/
    https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/switzerland/
    https://bit.ly/onia-dinacon17

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