# The Things Network Bern

A local community of The Things Network: people building an open, free LoRaWAN® network for the Internet of Things in and around Bern.

- Country: [Switzerland](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/switzerland/)
- Status: Official community
- Founded: 2016
- Members: 122
- Location: 46.9480, 7.4508
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/

## About

Wir haben es uns zur Aufgabe gemacht, Bern mit einer sicheren und kostenlosen IoT-Konnektivität mit The Things Network (TTN) zu versorgen und damit einen kostengünstigen und einfachen Einstieg in die Welt der Sensorik und der stromsparenden Geräte in der Region zu ermöglichen.

On a mission to provide Bern, Switzerland with secure and free IoT connectivity based on The Things Network (TTN), and help folks in the area with low cost and easy entry into the world of sensing and low-power devices.

Photo: [Aliman5040 - Old town of Berne from the Kirchenfeld bridge](https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bern#/media/Datoteka:Vieille_ville_de_Berne_depuis_le_Kirchenfeldbr%C3%BCcke.JPG) CC BY-SA 3.0

## Contact

Please join the #ttn-bern Slack channel to get in touch with us! To join the Slack, visit https://opennetworkinfrastructure.org/join/ and use the contact form or email.

## Resources

- [Forum](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/)
- [TTN @ BFH](https://drive.switch.ch/index.php/s/yRGlzZmLv09xCr8)
- [TTN Bern GitHub](https://github.com/ttn-be/)

## Partners

- [Bern University of Applied Science](https://www.bfh.ch/)

## In the media

- [The Next Web - The Things Network wants to make every city smart](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/19/the-things-network-wants-to-make-every-city-smart-starting-with-amsterdam/)

## Recent updates

- [Happy holidays from TTN Bern](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/happy-holidays-from-ttn-bern.md) (2024-12-20)
- [Meet Wake Make Bern](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/meet-wake-make-bern.md) (2023-10-20)
- [Meet Greet & Make Biel](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/meet-greet-make-biel.md) (2023-03-30)
- [Hacknight IoT & TTN](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/hacknight-iot-ttn.md) (2023-01-17)
- [Meet Greet & Make](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/meet-greet-make.md) (2021-11-04)
- [OpenThings! - The last mile to The Things Network](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/openthings-the-last-mile-to-the-things-network.md) (2019-10-10)
- [TTN Bern meetup - 12.09.2019](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/ttn-bern-meet-effinger.md) (2019-08-28)
- [The Things Network represented by the Open Network Infrastructure Association at dinacon 2017 in Berne](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/open-network-infrastructure-association-invites-to-the-open-network-session-in-berne.md) (2017-10-06)
- [New LoPy SW for easy geographic signal quality mapping of TTN](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/new-lopy-sw-for-easy-geographic-signal-quality-mapping-of-ttn.md) (2017-06-15)
- [World record Weissenstein Gateway is back!](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/post/world-record-weissenstein-gateway-is-back.md) (2017-04-14)

More updates: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/Bern/posts