The Things Network: Basic presentation

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   THE THINGS NETWORK Switzerland community gonzalocasas@gmail.com @gnz

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   THE THINGS NETWORK A global community, building open source software

   and hardware to operate a crowd-sourced IoT network.
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   IN SWITZERLAND

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   WHAT IS LORAWAN?

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   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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   LORAWAN 3 * 10 10 km range 10 USD/node 10

   years battery life
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   LONG RANGE 2km - 5km in urban setting 40km+ in

   rural setting © ttnmapper.org , Open Street Map
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   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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   INSANELY LONG RANGE (under extreme conditions) 333 km air-to-ground (helium

   balloon) by @telkamp (mapping @jpmeijers) © ttnmapper.org
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    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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    OPEN SOURCE BACKEND

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    UNLICENSED SPECTRUM Anyone can deploy a LoRaWAN network!

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    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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    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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    ARCHITECTURE

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    nodes gateways

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    END-TO-END SECURITY Network Session Key: Message Integrity Application Session Key:

    Join, Encryption and Decryption Devices Gateways Network Server Application
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    LINKS https://ttn-ch.herokuapp.com/ https://opennetworkinfrastructure.org/ https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/switzerland/