# The Things Network Leuven

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

- Country: [Belgium](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/belgium/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2016
- Members: 22
- Location: 50.8756, 4.6986
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/leuven/

## About

At https://research-expertise.ucll.be/nl/expertisecentra/digital-solutions, in partnership with the KuLeuvenNet, we have deployed a loraWAN infrastructure that covers the whole of Leuven, the university city of Belgium.

With the support of DingNet, we can fully cover the centre of Leuven and surroundings.
In fact, we are now one of the largest local TTN community in Belgium, thanks to the infrastructure designed by TTNKUL. A total of 13 Lorank8 gateways owned by Dirk Janssens of ICTS [https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts] should be able to forward the payloads to the backend and ready to be analysed and visualised by whatever hosted platform.

## Contact

wim.debbaut@ucll.be
debbaut.wim@gmail.com
dirk.janssens@kuleuven.be

## Partners

- [ICTS KuLeuven](https://admin.kuleuven.be/icts)

## 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/)