Isle of Man
Gateways nearby: publicly mapped gateways within ~25 km (Packet Broker). Gateways without a public location aren't counted.
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- Isle of Man
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- 2016
Our story
We began in 2016 to build a network for our island because we believed the Internet of Things should benefit everyone.
We wanted you to be able to participate, which is why we worked hard to cover our island in a free and open network which anyone can use.
Building the network enabled people to create technical solutions which solved problems for the benefit of our whole island community. We grew to cover most of the major population centres on the island and exchanged LoRaWAN packets with users in Ireland and the UK too.
The Isle of Man Government chose to invest with a commercial company to explore LoRaWAN and IoT instead.
The last volunteer owned Things Network gateway was closed down in March 2024.
Updates
All 14 postsWorth a pivot to Meshtastic?
I've recently gotten into mesh networks, mainly Meshtastic. I see TTN on the Isle of Man seems to have no more remaining nodes, but I have noticed there are a a
Shutdown
Having only seen 5 TTN LoRaWAN packets in about a month, and with the cost of electricity being so high, I've decided to shut down the Port Erin gateway. This s
Gateway Map Issue
You've probably spotted that the map isn't showing our gateways at the moment! The current map code will only display the V2 gateways, and we've migrated ours t
Things Network V3 Migration
I've just moved the Port Erin gateway from the 'old' V2 stack, to the new EU1 cluster of the Things Network version 3. It looks to be working fine on the new in
Douglas Gateway
This afternoon I've installed a gateway up on Onchan Head. It doesn't quite have the line of sight of the whole of the bay I was hoping it would have, but I'll
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