# Meeting #9

> TTN Community meeting Monday 3rd December 2018 Venue: Ove Arup & Partners Welcome and Introductions: Chair Dr Geraint Jones (GJ) introduced himself as Operation

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Sheffield](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/sheffield/)
- Author: Chris Dymond
- Published: 2018-12-19
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/sheffield/post/meeting-9

## TTN Community meeting Monday 3rd December 2018

## Venue: Ove Arup & Partners

### Welcome and Introductions:

Chair Dr Geraint Jones (GJ) introduced himself as Operations Manager for the Pitch-In
project, led by the University of Sheffield. GJ responded to the request for help from Chris
Dymond, and would be helping with the organisation of the Sheffield Things Network
ongoing.

### Attendees:

- Geraint Jones - Operations Manager for the Pitch-In project, University of Sheffield. www.pitch-in.ac.uk - Promoting the Internet of Things via Collaborations between Higher Education Institutions and Industry to benefit the UK
- Steve Jubb - Urban Flows Laboratory
- Gareth Roberts - Regather - https://regather.net/ (300 customers interested in IoT with relation to regather, and other social enterprises. Referenced foodchain.ac.uk, involved with SCHARR at UoS; Fresh Start with Sheffield Council - vouchers for vegetables and fruit at Moor Market; Internet of Food Things
- Matt Gillott - Works at Land Instruments - interested in Digital Strategy at a personal level. Land Instruments’ premises would be a good location for a Gateway.
- Rob Whiteside - works in Traffic Control at Rotherham Council / Sheffield Hackers & Makers
- Simon Redding - TTN Chesterfield
- Simon Nieder - TTN Chesterfield (Simon R and Simon N showcased some of the sensors they had procured/adapted)
- Sarah Cullen - Sheffield City Council

### Numbers:

- 14 Gateways
- 31 Contributors
- 47 Members of the #InternetOfThings channel on Slack
- 102 Followers on Twitter

(Yorkshire now has a significant concentration of gateways, marching up the east side of the Pennines, with Chesterfield, Sheffield, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Leeds, Calderdale and Harrogate).

### Housekeeping:

- Roy Woodhouse has stepped away as a Core Team member.
- Dr Geraint Jones from the Pitch-In Project at TUoS has stepped in.
- If anyone else wants to help organise, please volunteer & we'll make you a Core Team member. We should use the Slack (IoT channel and DMs) to coordinate.
- We are going to decommission the mailing list, and direct interested people to sign onto the Things Network Community page and the Sheffield Digital Slack.

### Things Network News:

- Did anyone go to the Things Network On Tour event in Norwich? No one present attended.
- LoRaWAN Conference 2019 in Amsterdam, Jan 31 - Feb 1st. (Remember Amsterdam is quicker and cheaper to get to from here than London is!)
- Updates from Steve Jubb:
  - Urban Flows laboratories – are supporting the Sheffield Things Network – can help with equipment for and setup of network.
  - Have purchased 2 gateways – one to be installed at WanDisco, and at the Hicks building.
  - City centre node to be live 4th December.
  - How do we configure across the city? Purchasing set of RF Survey equipment.
  - Don’t think enough about WiFi networks when doing urban planning.
  - From TTN POV can use TTN mapping nodes. Can use any node with a phone.
  - SJ – would be useful to have a hack morning to get TTN mapping node going. Hackspace very limited in terms of space. Have common project – this would be a good one. Mindsphere or I-forge – could be done at UoB
  - Important to get infrastructure fit for purpose.
  - Hamish - has money for NodeBox
  - Carrying out Air Quality measurements across the city - 40 sensors

### New Gateways:

- Whose are the new gateways? - Are there any new gateways are in progress? E.g. the one on the Hicks Building?
  - See note from Steve Jubb above.
  - **Action: Steve Jubb and Matt Gillott to liaise about locating a Gateway at Land Instruments.**
- Does anyone know how the Digital Catapult is converting its Things Connected network to The Things Network?
  - Some discussion but no direct information.

### Coverage & Propagation:

- Has anyone done any testing recently? Is TUoS' Mobius van doing any?
  - SJ - see plans in update above.
- Can we start collecting data? Can we add data to the ODI Leeds map? (https://odileeds.org/projects/things/)
- The meeting with Manchester to link over the Pennines didn't happen in the end, but we might want to look at this next year?
  - **Action: GJ to ensure trans-Pennine link on agenda for January meeting**

### Applications:

- Is anyone running anything on the network?
- Can we run another series of Hacks next year, taking into account the lessons learned?
  - **Action: SJ / GJ to set up morning hack on TTN Mapping Node at UoS - Mindsphere or iForge**
  - **Action: GJ to set up hack session at UoS on visualisation of Sheffield TTN data**
- Are there other initiatives the community could engage with?
  - There were initial informal discussions between members
- Are there any projects that members are building or would like to build?
  - There were initial informal discussions between members

### Community:

- We should try to convene Community meetings on a monthly basis again from the New Year. Any volunteers to host in January?
  - **Action: GJ to arrange next meeting for January 2019 at UoS**
- Are there any more partners / logos to add to the community page?
  - Sheffield Hackspace

### AOB:

- None