# The Things Network Liverpool

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

- Country: [United Kingdom](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/united-kingdom/)
- Status: Official community
- Founded: 2016
- Members: 28
- Location: 53.4104, -3.0003
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/liverpool/

## About

As part of DoES Liverpool's mission to "Do Epic Stuff", we're making sure that there's Things Network access at the West end of the UK Maker Belt.

Liverpool is set to become "Sensor City" for the UK, and this business backed group is acting in parallel by _going out and doing_ and making public LoRaWAN access through TTN available in Liverpool city center _right now_ with no waiting.

Our first gatway is placed right in the middle of Liverpool city centre, and has been running since mid 2016, and we're set to expand southwards during 2017. This has been made possible by joining forces with IX Liverpool and co-locate with their growing intra-Liverpool network.

We're actively looking to partner with individuals or businesses in the area who are looking to use or deploy LoRaWAN locally, have good radio sites, or are interested in using LoRaWAN.

## Contact

If you'd like to get involved you can contact [@ttn_liv](https://twitter.com/ttn_liv) direct on twitter, or come along to the [IoT Liverpool](http://www.meetup.com/iotliverpool/) meetup, every month in [DoES Liverpool](https://doesliverpool.com)
- Chat: https://thethingsnetwork.slack.com/messages/liverpool/

## Resources

- [Forum](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/)
- [DoES Liverpool](http://doesliverpool.com/)
- [TTN - Generic Presentation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49WRBg1NvMgM2lBcXRTU2ZqREU/)
- [Project Initiator](http://defproc.co.uk/p/ttn_liv)

## Partners

- [Def-Proc Engineering](http://defproc.co.uk/)
- [DoES Liverpool](http://doesliverpool.com/)
- [IX Liverpool](http://ixliverpool.net/)
- [MCQN Ltd](http://mcqn.com/)

## 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

- [Connecting Sensors to TTN Hackday - 15th June at DoES Liverpool](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/liverpool/post/connecting-sensors-to-ttn-hackday-15th-june-at-does-liverpool.md) (2017-06-02)
- [The Things Network Liverpool becomes official!](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/liverpool/post/the-things-network-liverpool-becomes-official.md) (2017-03-02)
- [First permanent gateway](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/liverpool/post/first-permanent-gateway.md) (2017-02-22)