# The Things Network Charlottetown

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

- Country: [Canada](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/canada/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2017
- Members: 4
- Location: 46.2430, -63.1321
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/charlottetown/

## About

We are working to create a citizen-driven sensor network in Charlottetown, enabling the collection of a variety of data from sensors spread across the city and managed by regular everyday people.

To start, we've called together a small Advisory Committee to work with the City of Charlottetown to establish a LoRaWAN gateway.

We're using the city of Amersfoort, Netherlands, and the [Measure Your City](http://www.meetjestad.nl/) effort there as a starting point. We held a helpful videoconference with organizers there to learn more about the spirit and technology of Measure Your City.

By way of getting started, we've ordered a The Things Network gateway; when it arrives, we'll launch an experiment in data-gathering to learn more about how we might proceed.

## Contact

To learn more about our effort, contact Peter Rukavina at peter@rukavina.net.

## 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/)

## 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

- [LoRaWAN Gateway Ordered](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/charlottetown/post/lorawan-gateway-ordered.md) (2017-12-12)