Our story
The Gold Coast Things Network was brought together by Gold Coast Techspace (the first makerspace on the Gold Coast) in collaboration with Refactor. Our mission is to create a wide-reaching IoT data network across the Gold Coast, fostering the creation of innovative solutions that drive positive technological and social change.
IoT is a game-changing technology with huge potential for the future. Our community is here to bring together individuals and organisations keen on collaborating to develop IoT use cases and technology solutions from scratch. We’re an open and welcoming network, especially for hobbyists who want to get involved.
We’re also working on expanding our network by rolling out more gateway devices, aiming for full coverage of the Gold Coast. Our goal is to use IoT to deliver practical solutions that benefit our community.
Updates
All 7 postsWe are back!
It's been a long hiatus, but we are back and building the network out again. Matt and Steve from Refactor have gathered up all the previously deployed hardware
The Things Network Gold Coast becomes official!
Congratulations for becoming an official community of The Things Network! Many thanks to all the members of the community who contributed to this success. Colla
Low Cost LoRaWan nodes with Arduino and Aliexpress RF96 modules
Skip and Steve at secluded.io now have low-cost Arduino nodes working using some of our old 3.3V Arduino boards and the cheap (~$10AU) RF95 modules you can find
Gold Coast Network Roll-out
Gold Coast Techspace, PSA Engineering and Refactor have recently partnered to launch The Gold Coast’s first public access Low Power-Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN)
Gold Coast TechSpace Mudgeeraba gateway is live
We are pleased to announce that the gateway at Gold Coast TechSpace in Mudgeeraba is now live. This gateway will enable local hackers and makers at the TechSpac
Live coverage
Coverage around Gold Coast
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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