# The Things Network Barcelona

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

- Country: [Spain](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/spain/)
- Status: Official community
- Founded: 2015
- Members: 140
- Location: 41.4966, 2.1311
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/

## About

Together we plan to cover the entire city of Barcelona and surroundings with LoRa data connectivity with free access

LoRaWAN has the potential to enable an entire new class of use cases for the Internet of Things, but we need to open this up to the hacker/maker community. And the best way to do it, is to build the network ourselves. A free (as in beer), open network (free as in speech), based on an open-source stack, owned by the community itself to enable all the tinkerers and hackers and just about everyone with an interest in the technology, to build and prototype on top of it. We work together as a community including social movements, businesses, public institutions, universities and domestic users. Each one of us benefits from a commons-based network, that we build and control collectively. It is a commons on the level of the protocols, the software, the hardware designs and the antennas itself. Join our [mailing list](https://llistes.guifi.net/sympa/info/thingsnetworkbarcelona). Set up an antenna, develop and use software & hardware applications, ... do your thing :-)

## Contact

[Forums](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org)| [Contact](wouter@freeknowledge.eu)| [Twitter TTN](https://twitter.com/thethingsntwrk) | [Twitter TTNcat](https://twitter.com/ttncat)
- Chat: https://thethingsnetwork.cat/

## Resources

- [The Things Network: 4x Commons for the Internet of Things](http://freeknowledge.eu/blogs/things-network-4x-commons-internet-of-things)
- [Llista de correu de infraestructures col·lectives](https://llistes.xoic.coop/mailman/postorius/lists/infraestructures.llistes.xoic.coop/)
- [Llista de correu General](https://llistes.xoic.coop/mailman/postorius/lists/general.llistes.xoic.coop/)
- [Web XOIC](http://xoic.coop/)

## Partners

- [Free Knowledge Institute](http://freeknowledge.eu/)
- [Fundació Guifi.net](http://guifi.net/)
- [IoT Partners](http://www.iot-partners.com/)
- [Tarpuna](http://tarpunacoop.org/)

## In the media

- [These devices could help spread Internet of Things networks across cities worldwide](http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2015/10/21/these-devices-could-help-spread-internet-of-things-networks-across-cities-worldwide/)
- [Social TIC :: The Things Network, la xarxa de l’Internet de les Coses que fem entre totes](http://desdelamina.net/drupal/article/social-tic-things-network-la-xarxa-de-l%E2%80%99internet-de-les-coses-que-fem-entre-totes)

## Recent updates

- [Visit The Things Pavilion at IOT Solutions World Congress on 21-23 May in Barcelona](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/visit-the-things-pavilion-at-iot-solutions-world-congress-on-21-23-may-in-barcelona.md) (2024-04-24)
- [The Things Conference is coming to Barcelona as part of the IoT Solutions World Congress on 31 January to 2 February 2023](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/the-things-conference-is-coming-to-barcelona-as-part-of-the-iot-solutions-world-congress-on-31-january-to-2-february-2023.md) (2022-12-09)
- [Hackató TTNcat](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/hackato-ttncat.md) (2018-06-02)
- [Co-creation session](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/co-creation-session.md) (2018-03-07)
- [The Things Network Barcelona becomes official!](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/the-things-network-barcelona-becomes-official.md) (2016-12-08)
- [Getting Momentum at the SCEWC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/getting-momentum-at-the-scewc.md) (2016-11-14)
- [Next Community Meeting (pròxima trobada) 23 October #TecnoFESC](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/next-community-meeting-proxima-trobada-23-october-tecnofesc.md) (2016-10-20)
- [Next community meeting 11 March @Procomuns](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/next-community-meeting-11-march-procomuns.md) (2016-03-04)
- [Now is LoRa: Building the Smart City bottom up](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/now-is-lora-building-the-smart-city-bottom-up.md) (2015-11-18)
- [Construint la Ciutat Intel·ligent des de baix: Ara és LoRa](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/barcelona/post/construint-la-ciutat-intelligent-des-de-baix-ara-es-lora.md) (2015-11-09)

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