Our story
Birmingham, Alabama is a little city with huge potential. A recipient of IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge grant, Birmingham has a small but growing tech community that is bursting with new ideas. If we are going to realize the true potential of our city, we'll need open infrastructure that allows innovators to test and deploy their ideas with as little friction as possible.
We are happy to have you join the community. Contact the core team and help us unleash the Internet of Things in Birmingham, AL.
Updates
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Our friends at Gasp, Inc have been with us since the beginning of our journey. They recently had a great video produced that explains their goals for The Things
New Coverage Test Results
Our Beacon Parkway gateway location is living up to expectations. Even with an indoor antenna, we see some excellent range results. 4.8km is our current best, w
Hands-on Workshop
Join us for our next hands-on workshop! We'll get a few simple LoRaWAN devices talking to The Things Network, and explore some example use cases. Join the meetu
Heltec ESP32 + LoRaWAN Tutorial Published
We keep chugging along on our journey toward building our TTN community and getting some use cases up and running. One of the things that is next on our list is
Updated resources for getting involved.
One of the struggles of a small city tech community is that of fragmentation. When groups all set up their own forums, their own slack channels, their own meetu
Live coverage
Coverage around Birmingham
Crowdsourced LoRaWAN coverage built and run by the local community — live gateway data from the Packet Broker network.
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