Our story
In 2016, a group of people from School of Computing at the University of Kent started experiementing with a private LoRaWAN network with the aim of enabling students to be able to easily access the technology as part of a computing module called the Internet of Things. Since then we have made the decision to use the Things Network to increase network connectivity and to enable everyone in the local area to benefit from the network and to help develop new innovative projects.
Updates
All 5 postsGateways launched!
Over the last few weeks we have been deploying gateways to their new homes. Stay tuned as we start increasing the coverage across Kent!
Latest version of our gateways
This is now our preferred gateway design for mast sites. It's a grounded metal enclosure, weatherproof ethernet and n-type connectors, POE, etc. Inside is a bea
University of Kent Gateway
A gateway within the School of Computing at the University of Kent has been bought online. This gateway provides coverage across central campus. It's our first
Test Gateway Returned Home
We quickly returned our test gateway back to base to check on it and are happy to say everything was fine - no water / moisture ingress, etc. A quick upgrade wa
Gateways being constructed
We've just starting trialling our gateways by deploying them temporarily in the City of Canterbury. Over the next few weeks we will be testing their network con
Live coverage
Coverage around Canterbury
Crowdsourced LoRaWAN coverage built and run by the local community — live gateway data from the Packet Broker network.
- Mapped gateways worldwide
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- Online now
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