# The Things Network Boston

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

- Country: [United States of America](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/usa/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2015
- Members: 61
- Location: 42.3634, -71.0572
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/

## About

We want to build Boston's role as a global Internet of Thing development Hub, and bring the IoT's benefits to every neighborhood.

Boston is already ranked as the world's 4th largest home of IoT companies, and we want to build on this reputation by providing a free citywide IoT data network to make the entire city an IoT sandbox/laboratory. Our Boston IoT Meetup will be the nucleus of the campaign, and, while working separately from the Walsh Administration, we hope to build on the worldwide attention that the innovative apps and services developed by the Mayor's Office of the New Urban Mechanics have earned. It will take active support from the business community and the neighborhoods to make this dream a reality.

## Contact

Contact me if you want to become involved: D.StephensonATStephensonstrategiesDOTcom You can access our working notes here: bit.ly/1N4wNie

We also have a #boston channel in Slack.
- Chat: https://thethingsnetwork.slack.com/archives/C1BAWAXU1

## Resources

- [Boston IOT Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/Boston-New-England-Internet-of-Things-Meetup/)
- [Mayor's Office of the New Urban Mechanics](http://newurbanmechanics.org/boston/)
- [Planning docs for Boston TTN](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8dWb-X5SjjqeHhPVmpuckV4Vnc)
- [TTN - Generic Presentation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49WRBg1NvMgM2lBcXRTU2ZqREU/)

## In the media

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

## Recent updates

- [LoRa end-devices store](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/lora-end-devices-store.md) (2025-04-19)
- [LoRA end device at Medford](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/lora-end-device-at-medford.md) (2023-06-08)
- [Getting off the ground in Boston.](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/getting-off-the-ground-in-boston.md) (2020-04-27)
- [Boston Public Gateways?](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/boston-public-gateways.md) (2020-02-08)
- [miniMEGAmeetup](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/minimegameetup.md) (2019-03-15)
- [TTN Boston is heating up](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/ttn-boston-is-heating-up.md) (2018-02-08)
- [TTN gateways arriving in Boston](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/ttn-gateways-arriving-in-boston.md) (2018-01-25)
- [New Boston gateway](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/new-boston-gateway.md) (2018-01-03)
- [Boston Crowdsourced Campaign to Give City 1st Citywide Free IoT Data Network in US](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/boston-crowdsourced-campaign-to-give-city-1st-citywide-free-iot-data-network-in-us.md) (2015-09-27)
- [Free Citywide IoT Data Networks Will Catapult IoT Spread to Hyperspeed!](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/boston/post/free-citywide-iot-data-networks-will-catapult-iot-spread-to-hyperspeed.md) (2015-09-27)