# The Things Network Kanata

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

- Country: [Canada](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/canada/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2015
- Members: 18
- Location: 45.2868, -75.8486
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/kanata/

## About

Our mission is to accelerate IoT innovations by providing a free IoT data network in the city of Kanata and surrounding areas.

The City of Kanata is also known as Silicon Valley North. With all incredible talents around here, many of us are already working on the next "Big Thing". Let's accelerate this process and bring us to the next level by providing a free IoT network to creative individuals and companies.

## Contact

wojtek@iotman.me or @VirTERM

## Resources

- [Forum](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/)
- [TTN - Generic Presentation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49WRBg1NvMgM2lBcXRTU2ZqREU/)

## 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

- [Our Air Quality Index nodes sending vital data over TTN network](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/kanata/post/our-air-quality-index-nodes-sending-vital-data-over-ttn-network.md) (2016-04-13)
- [7th gateway is up and running](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/kanata/post/7th-gateway-is-up-and-running.md) (2016-03-29)
- [6 active gateways](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/kanata/post/6-active-gateways.md) (2016-03-01)
- [3 more gateways](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/kanata/post/3-more-gateways.md) (2016-02-16)
- [Meet up Event about LoRa & TTN](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/kanata/post/meet-up-event-about-lora-ttn.md) (2016-02-04)
- [Second Gateway is up](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/kanata/post/second-gateway-is-up.md) (2016-01-20)
- [First Canadian Gateway is online](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/kanata/post/first-canadian-gateway-is-online.md) (2016-01-20)