# The Things Network Riga

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

- Country: [Latvia](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/country/latvia/)
- Status: Campaign (a community getting started)
- Founded: 2016
- Members: 29
- Location: 56.9478, 24.1076
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/riga/

## About

Our mission is to provide the entire city with Internet of Things data connectivity by crowdsourcing the network by its citizens and local companies.

By the end of the year, we want to have at least 10 gateways in place, which should be enough to cover the city center.

## Contact

You can contact community via our Slack page - https://ttnr.slack.com. If you want to get invite - send request to zxpower _AT_ ttnr.lv
- Chat: https://ttnr.slack.com/

## Resources

- [Forum](http://forum.thethingsnetwork.org/)
- [TTN - Generic Presentation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B49WRBg1NvMgM2lBcXRTU2ZqREU/)
- [Unleash Your City - Guide](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/labs/story/unleash-your-community-get-started-with-the-things-network/)

## 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

- [2nd gateway and team's Slack channel](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/riga/post/2nd-gateway-and-teams-slack-channel.md) (2017-06-12)