Moving forward!

Hi everyone,

Summer's underway and we've been moving forward loads with the Things Network Chesterfield.
We've built two prototype single channel gateways using Raspberry Pi devices (photo above with a Seeduino-based people movement logger) and are currently commissioning these ready for Cycle Hack Chesterfield next month:
https://www.cyclehack.com/cyclehack-chesterfield
Putting test gateways in place will enable prototyping of sensors prior to the actual gateways being available.
One of these gateways will be in the Monkey Park Works co-working hub - we're looking for a home for the other.

Here’s a parallel initiative on Things Network run by the Future Cities Catapult. It’s just focussing on London at the moment, but aligns perfectly with what we’re trying to do: http://futurecities.catapult.org.uk/project/things-connected/ . Sadly their funding was a single call focussed on London, but there are some good use cases on that site.

We've had interest in Things Network Chesterfield from a number of organisations including Chesterfield Canal Trust (to monitor canal water levels & protect against flooding), Chesterfield Borough Council (to look at air pollution) and market traders (to look at footfall). We'd welcome further conversations with others - this is still at a very early stage.

Lastly, we're looking for £1000 to put in a pair of proper gateways for the town - from grant funds, collaborating partners & local business sponsorship. This will create a baseline open access pilot network for developing the Internet of Things in Chesterfield & North Derbyshire.

Come & join the more regular chat on the #smartchesterfield channel of the Spire Digital Slack community.
To join this, you can self-register at http://spiredigitalslack.herokuapp.com/
The conversation is then at https://spiredigitalcommunity.slack.com/messages/C56RS10GY/details/
We'd love you to join the chat & building exercise!

Thanks
Simon Redding
Co-founder, Spire Digital & Monkey Park Works