# The Things Network Poitiers

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

- Country: [France](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/france/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2016
- Members: 15
- Location: 46.5802, 0.3401
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/poitiers/

## About

We want to provide knowledge, tools, infrastructure to boost Open Innovation on our area with a free IOT data network!

Our whishes are just :

- Provide simple and reliable IoT infrastructure to all our local ecosystem
  - Startups
  - Cities
  - FabLabs
  - Companies
  - Schools and Universities
  - Hobbyist
- Place starting point of Industry 4.0
  - Smart Cities
  - Smart Agriculture
  - eHealth
  - Smart Metering
  - Industrial
  - Tracking
  - ...
- Be innovative, show what we can do and trigger following area
- Promote regional ideasand IoT projects
- Use local knowledge and partners

## Contact

You can reach us on 
- On [Social Networks](https://www.ch2i.eu/en#social)
- Or our [Contact page](https://www.ch2i.eu/en#support)

## Resources

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

## Partners

- [Ch2i](http://ch2i.eu/)
- [NTX-Research](https://ntx-research.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

- [First Gateway Up and testing](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/poitiers/post/first-gateway-up-and-testing.md) (2016-06-27)