# Community gateway de Mheen online

> Friday, May 26, our second community gateway came online. This gateway is adding indoor coverage to Apeldoorn North-East and will add redundancy to the coverage

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Apeldoorn](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/apeldoorn/)
- Author: Remko Welling
- Published: 2017-05-28
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/apeldoorn/post/community-gateway-de-mheen-online

Friday, May 26, our second community gateway came online.

This gateway is adding indoor coverage to Apeldoorn North-East and will add redundancy to the coverage in Apeldoorn. This redundancy will incrase availabilty of The Things Network in Apeldooorn.

**Installation**
The antenna is installed at aproximately 65 meters and connected using a 14 meter low-loss coax cable to the gateway. The gateway is installed indoor due to site restrictions. Internet is obtained trough the existing 5 GHz link. The system is managed trough an [OpenVPN](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/labs/story/using-openvpn-for-gateway-maintenance) solution.
![de Mheen Antennas](https://rfsee.nl/ttn/images/001_small.jpg) ![de Mheen Equipment](https://rfsee.nl/ttn/images/002_small.jpg)

The gateway is monitored trough a LoRaWAN Node connected trough TTN. This node monitors all power supplies and temperarure in the cabinet.
![de Mheen Antennas](https://rfsee.nl/ttn/images/003_small.jpg)

**Contributions**
The gateway is located at the site of the Apeldoorn Repeater group who generously offered space in their antenna mast and equipment room.
The ILOC LoRaWAN gateway is sponsored by [INCAA Computers](http://www.incaacomputers.com/)