# The Things Network Canterbury

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

- Country: [United Kingdom](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/united-kingdom/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2017
- Members: 13
- Location: 51.2975, 1.0693
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/canterbury-uk/

## About

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.

## Contact

You can contact the admin team of the local gateways at:

cstheshed@kent.ac.uk
- Chat: https://ttncanterburyuk.slack.com/

## Resources

- [Forum](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/)
- [TTN - Generic Presentation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49WRBg1NvMgM2lBcXRTU2ZqREU/)
- [Unleash Your City - Guide](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/labs/story/unleash-your-community-get-started-with-the-things-network/)
- [Forum post](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/ttn-canterbury-uk/8353/1)

## Partners

- [School of Computing](https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/)

## In the media

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

## Recent updates

- [Gateways launched!](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/canterbury-uk/post/gateways-launched.md) (2018-10-02)
- [Latest version of our gateways](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/canterbury-uk/post/latest-version-of-our-gateways.md) (2018-03-20)
- [University of Kent Gateway](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/canterbury-uk/post/university-of-kent-gateway.md) (2017-11-29)
- [Test Gateway Returned Home](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/canterbury-uk/post/test-gateway-returned-home.md) (2017-07-30)
- [Gateways being constructed](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/canterbury-uk/post/gateways-being-constructed.md) (2017-07-07)